On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi debian-user, > > Here is a summary of the mini-poll that I conducted recently on Debian-user: Very interesting results, and thanks for doing this. > > Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP reign supreme for the third year running > but are now joined by aptitude, each having 21 votes. thy are category killing apps. Intersting is the number of cli web browsers populating the 3-5 positions. I would have thought we'd see opera or something in there. > I was surprised > by Quod Libet receiving one vote but more surprising was F-Spot which > also got just one and Tomboy receiving only 2 votes. I'm not surprised. My kids use Tomboy sporadically, and all I can say is, just like its icon, you can't really beat a post-it note. > The most > surprising category is "misc utilities" because none of the 2005 and > 2006 winners, sudo and grep received enough votes (three) to appear > here. Interesting. I view it more like this: sudo and grep (find, sort, etc etc etc) are ubiquitous. I'm surprised they made the list at all. I consider it equivalent to asking woodworkers what their favorite tool is and being surprised that you don't get "sandpaper" in the list. They all use sandpaper, they couldn't imagine a shop without it, but its just assumed. The discussion will center around things like routers versus shapers versus custom profiled handplanes. Chisels and saws versus dove-tail jigs and routers. Biscuit joiners vs pocket-screw jigs versus mortise-and-tenon tools. etc. Of course they're all going to use sandpaper at the end, its not a choice. Just a thought on the psychology of these sorts of polls. :) A
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