Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:27:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop
> 
> 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?
> 

Is this a technical coupling you speak about or just because of the download button? I mean Fedora being coupled to Gnome for me means that if I install from the KDE spin I'll get a full blown Gnome installation too.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> Ralf
> 
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