Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/05/2013 08:45 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 02/05/2013 07:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
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>>> 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:
>>>>
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>>>>>> , 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.
>
> No the desktop choice isn't the issue (it wasn't any more popular in
> the GNOME2 days).

In the Gnome2 days you had choices between functionally similar DEs.

Times have changed ... Gnome has been forked multiply (Gnome3, MATE, 
Cinammon), xfce/enlightenment are back.

Why? IMO, due to user dissatisfaction with what primarily Fedora and 
Ubuntu ship as default DEs, rsp. because Gnome has dropped their former 
userbase.

> For the "advanced users" the desktop choice matters even less because
> they know how to chose a desktop.

To "advanced users" anaconda enforcing GNOME is defect ;)

Ralf