Summary of Reddit thread

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 8 18:55:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Actually, I found it interesting that this _wasn't_ a big deal on that
> > thread.
> Maybe because most users were using Ubuntu and Debian, as the cited
> numbers suggest?  They come with H.264 and AAC support out of the box
> (Ubuntu perhaps through universe, which is enabled by default, but not
> supported by Canonical).

Could be. This is anecdotal, but when I talk to people about why they
chose $OTHERDISTRO over Fedora (which I try to do *a lot*), I don't
tend to hear this either. The main thing I get is: "I wanted to get
started, looked, and there was plenty of help and documentation for
what I wanted to do in $OTHERDISTRO, so I picked that."

I used to hear a lot of "I can't handle the update cycle", but
(possibly as I try to talk more to people outside of the sysadmin
background I come from), I think I get that less recently.

I'd love to have more real data to work from rather than anecdotes, of
course. 

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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