On 02/05/2013 07:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 07:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>>> , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine
>>> doing exactly what I suggest (making people actually pick their download).
>>> Their download button actually points to a selector, not directly to an ISO.
>>
>> That would be the SUSE that along with Mandriva got completely panned
>> when Ubuntu showed up, then?
>
> Is the situation Fedora is in essentially better? I feel no.
>
> Reality is, when mentioning Fedora to Linux users, I am having
> difficulties to not get laughed at. "Freaks'/nerds' distro",
"Ubuntu is
> much easier", "Fedora lacks soooo much", "Way too unstable",
"Way too
> short life-cycles" are the usual answers.
Let's not go down that path. It's far off topic.
I disagree. Fedora's
lack of popularity is largely thanks to these issues.
In this context, I feel the Cinnamon request rsp. the "give users a
choice on DEs" attempts are part of an attempt to escape the at least
one of the dead-end roads Fedora currently is stuck in (The Gnome3
dead-end).
Ralf