What I would love to see, and I'm sure it's already been done, but I just can't find it, is a comparison of all the common distros (like in the poll you put up) so that newbies (like me) can see what they're all about.
I'd like to see which ones are better at this, and which ones are better at that, and which ones have certain problems.
Also, on a review side of things, maybe a review of all the windows managers or whatever they are called, as in Gnome, KDE, etc...(they are just the desktop environments, and X is the window manager right?). Show which ones have which features, which ones are easier to install, which ones are easier to customize.
Just some thoughts
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