2020 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races (including our first 3 way tie) and the large number of new categories this year certainly kept things interesting. Congratulations to each and every nominee. The official results:

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Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (20.31%) Server Distribution of the Year - Slackware (32.93%) Live Distribution of the Year - Slackware Live Edition (41.55%) Database of the Year - MariaDB (53.18%) Browser of the Year - Firefox (54.82%) Desktop Environment of the Year - Plasma Desktop (KDE) (35.54%) Window Manager of the Year - Openbox (23.03%) Audio Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (29.34%\%) Digital Audio Workstation of the Year - Ardour (42.11%) Video Media Player of the Year - VLC (67.26%) Video Authoring Application of the Year - KDEnlive (44.44%) Security Hardening and/or Scanning Application of the Year - nmap (45.83%) Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios Core (22.33%) IDE of the Year - Visual Studio Code (23.29%) Text Editor of the Year - vim (28.34%) File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (29.39%) Open Source Game of the Year - SuperTuxKart (15.05%) Programming Language of the Year - Python (31.14%) Backup Application of the Year - Timeshift (23.58%) Log Management Tool of the Year - Logstash (33.80%) X Terminal Emulator of the Year - Konsole (23.25%) Browser Privacy Solution of the Year - uBlock Origin (38.62%) Privacy Solution of the Year - GnuPG (33.33%) IRC Client of the Year - HexChat (44.83%) Single Board Computer of the Year - Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (58.59%) Virtualization Application of the Year - VirtualBox (53.76%) Container of the Year - Docker (60.58%) Linux/Open Source Podcast of the Year - Bad Voltage/Command Line Heroes/GNU World Order (13.59%) Secure Messaging Application of the Year - Signal (45.63%) Graphics Editor of the Year - GIMP (74.67%) Linux Desktop Vendor of the Year - System76 (52.99%) Linux Laptop Vendor of the Year - System76 (39.86%) Linux Server Vendor of the Year - Dell (31.58%) Email Client of the Year - Thunderbird (57.87%) Clipboard Manager of the Year - Klipper (52.73%) PDF Viewer of the Year - Okular (37.40%) Static Site Generator of the Year - Hugo (32.26%) Screen Recording and Streaming Tool of the Year - OBS Studio (37.21%) Media Server of the Year - Kodi (37.14%) Team Communication Application of the Year - Slack (38.24%) Music Collaboration Platform of the Year - SoundJack (32.00%)

If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let us know. Visit https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-awards-131/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2020mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.

--jeremy