Although this year the Debian/Ubuntu-based distros took the lion's share of the votes, the "Best Linux Distribution" category is a bit like "Best Kind of Pizza"—even the bottom of the list is still pizza. It's hard to go wrong with Linux, and the wide variety of votes only proves how many different choices exist in our wonderful Open Source world.

• Ubuntu 16.5%

• Debian 16.4%

• Linux Mint 11%

• Arch Linux 8.5%

• Fedora 8.3%

• CentOS 6%

• openSUSE 5.3%

• Kubuntu 4.1%

• Gentoo 2.9%

• Slackware 2.7%

• Xubuntu 2.5%

• Other 2.3%

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1.6%

• NixOS 1.4%

• elementary OS 1.3%

• Lubuntu 1.2%

• CrunchBang 1%

• Mageia .7%

• LXLE .4%

• Tails .4%

• Android-x86 .3%

• Bodhi Linux .3%

• Chakra .3%

• Kali Linux .3%

• PCLinuxOS .3%

• SolydK .3%

• Mandriva .1%

• Oracle Linux .1%