Read on to see how the desktop environment contenders fared in this week's Readers' Choice Awards category.

Here's the breakdown (the contenders below were nominated by readers via Twitter):

KDE: 35%

GNOME: 20%

Xfce: 15%

Cinnamon: 11%

MATE: 7%

Other: 7%

Unity: 3%

LXQt: 1%

Thanks to its stability, performance, feature set and a loyal following, the K Desktop Environment (KDE) won Best Desktop Environment in this year's Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards.

Linux Journal reader Larry Coombes says his vote was for KDE for a mass of reasons, including: