Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/05/2013 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2013-02-05, 06:19 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Good people walk balanced step towards the goal. Others, without
> knowing, dance around them contemporary dances. (Franz Kafka)
>
> I wouldn't be worried that Fedora is not cool. Actually, thinking about
> it, that's the best part of Fedora.

Absolutely d'accord ... But why have this "kool default DE" and not 
leave the choice to what its users actually use?

Or differently: One of Fedora's "higher" goal is "freedom" - Why not 
demonstrate this attitude by example and decouple Fedora from Gnome?

Ralf