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Linux Journal's Reader's Choice poll results for December 2014
Distro:

• Ubuntu (16.5)
• Debian (16.4)
• Mint (11)
• Arch (8.5)
• Fedora (8.3)

Mobile:

• Stock Android (37.1)
• Sailfish (27.6)
• CyanogenMod (20.2)
• Other (3)

Smartphone Manufacturer:

• Samsung (29)
• Jolla (27)
• Nexus (17)
• Other (7)

Tablet:

• Google Nexus 7 (35)
• Nexus 10 (15)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab (14)
• Galaxy Note (10)
• ASUS Transformer Pad (8)

Other Gadget:

• Raspberry Pi (71.4)
• BeagleBone Black (8.1)
• Other (4.3)

Laptop Vendor:

• Lenovo (32)
• ASUS (19.3)
• Dell (18.5)
• System76 (10.6)
• Other (7.9)

Best CMS:

• Wordpress (34.7)
• Drupal (25.3)
• Joomla (11.1)
• Mediawiki (10.5)
• Other - Dokuwiki Plone Django Typo3 (10)
• Alfresco (4.3)
• WebGUI (1.3)
• ikiwiki (1.1)

Hosting Provider:

• Other - especially DigitalOcean (22.8)
• Amazon (22.5)
• Rackspace (13.1)
• Linode (10.4)

Web Browser:

• Firefox (54)
• Chrome (27)
• Chromium (8)
• Iceweasel (4)

Email Client:

• Thunderbird (44)
• Gmail (25)
• Mutt (7)
• Evolution (6)
• KMail (5)

Audio Editor:

• Audacity (69)
• FFmpeg (11)
• VLC (10)
• Ardour (5)

Audio Player:

• VLC (25)
• Amarok (15)
• Rhythmbox (10)
• Clementine (9)
• MPlayer (6)
• Spotify (6)
• Audacious (6)

Video Player

• VLC (65)
• MPlayer (15)
• XBMC (6)
• Totem (3)
• Other (3)

Video Editor

• VLC (18)
• Kdenlive (16)
• Blender (15)
• Avidemux (13)
• OpenShot (13)
• Cinelerra (8)

Cloud file storage:

• Dropbox (31)
• ownCloud (27)
• Google Drive (16)
• rsync (8)
• Other (8)
• Amazon S3 (7)

Game:

• Civilization 5 (27)
• Other - notably Minecraft, 0 A.D., Frozen Bubble, Battle for Wesnoth, Portal (24)
• Team Fortress 2 (9)
• NetHack (8)
• X-Plane 10 (7)
• DotA (6)
• Bastion (5)
• Scorched 3D (4)
• Destiny (4)
• Ultima IV (2)
• FreeCol (2)
• Kpat (1)
• FreeOrion (1)
• Ryzom (1)

Virtualization:

• Oracle VM VirtualBox (33)
• VMware (22)
• KVM (21)
• XEN (6)
• QEMU (5)
• OpenStack (5)

Monitoring:

• Nagios (27)
• Wireshark (21)
• htop (12)
• Zabbix (11)
• Other - Icinga OpenNMS (9)
• Zenoss (6)
• Munin (3)

Devops Conf Management

• Git (39)
• Puppet (17)
• Ansible (9)
• cronjobs (9)
• Subversion (8)
• Chef (5)

Programming Language:

• Python (30)
• C++ (18)
• C (17)
• Perl (7)
• Java (7)
• Other - Scala PHP Clojure (5)
• Ruby (4)
• Go (2)
• Javascript (2)
• QML (2)
• Fortran (1)

Scripting Language:

• Python (37)
• Bash (27)
• Perl (12)
• PHP (8)
• Javascript (7)
• Ruby (5)

New Product/Project:

• Docker (28)
• Jolla and Sailfish OS (19)
• LibreOffice (7)
• ownCloud (5)
• Steam (5)
• Zenoss Control Centre (5)
• Raspberry Pi (4)
• Git (4)
• Apache Cordova/Openoffice/Spark/Tika (3)
• Ansible (2)