Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

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