"Year of the Linux Desktop" Quarterfinals!
Round 1 results, plus come vote for your pick to see which distros will move forward!
Welcome back everyone, to the Retro Millennial’s Year of the Linux Desktop Tournament! Thank you to everyone who voted in the sweet sixteen round. So far the brackets are progressing pretty much as I expected them to, though with some matches being closer than I thought they would be, and one match being an upset in my book.
Sweet Sixteen Results
As expected, longtime juggernaut, Ubuntu moves on to the quarterfinals after soundly defeating the FSF-approved Trisquel with 76% of the vote.
The oldest distro in the tournament, Slackware, had the strongest showing of any in the opening round, knocking out the recently-reviewed Solus with a whopping 79%. A very strong showing that honestly surprised me a bit. I expected Slackware to win, but not by that much!
Also as expected, Fedora won its bracket. However, I was happy to see the much smaller Crunchbang++ and BunsenLabs maintain a pretty narrow margin with the results gaining a respectable 39% of the vote. I definitely expected Fedora to have a much broader victory than it did.
Linux Mint easily defeated Deepen with 71%.
The closest match in the opening round saw the second-oldest distro, Debian, narrowly defeating the FreeBSD-based macOS clone ravynOS with only 59% of the vote. This was one of the biggest surprises to me, as I assumed Debian would easily take it. It will be interesting to see how it fairs in the quarterfinals.
The new distro that seems to be the next big thing in the Linux world, NixOS handily defeated the Enlightenment-oriented Bodhi Linux with73% of the vote. I figured this would probably happen, but it does make me a little nervous as I’ve never used Nix and have no idea how it all works!
In another surprisingly close contest, Arch defeated Void 65% to 35%.
Finally, the big surprise to me in this opening match, FreeBSD put System76’s Pop_OS! away with 63%. It was a fairly close one, but I definitely thought Pop would take it.
The Quarterfinals
Now let’s move forward. The rules are the same as last time, however I am shortening the voting window from 7 days to 3 days (because for some dumb reason Substack doesn’t allow 5 days…). This is mostly because the votes stop coming in after day 3, and I get impatient.
