Ben, I think you have the right idea about testing and voting

In the 3 threads I have done so far, I found that once I've made the original post with the poll.. and before Ive made the second post with info on all the entries.. there is already several votes cast. So not everyone is as patient or considered as you, there are some people who are voting right away for their favorite.

System & Utilities is by far our biggest category, if I remember right there are around 22 entries. To install and test out each one of those is asking a lot of even the most patient people - it's probably much easier to stick with those you are most interested in.