Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Kevin Kofler]

Michael Scherer wrote:
> Well, a majority of people think such polls are useless,

Do you have a poll to prove that? ;-)

Seriously, the only thing more inaccurate than statistic is MADE UP
statistics. :-/

> 1) 792 people. Just to compare, there is 300 people on #fedora-devel on
> irc, and 800 on #puppet on irc, a media which is said to be "dying".
> There as around 4000 visitors in FOSDEM in 2008, 5 years ago. So the
> number of people is just low. I do truly hope we have more than a
> handful 1000 users across _all_ distributions.

Do you know what a "sample" is?

> 2) if the fedora forums poll is biased due to "default to gnome 3", then
> why isn't unity being more represented in the linuxquestion poll ?
> Is it because :
> - Unity, by some magic reason, do not bias anything while gnome-shell
> does ( ie, your argument is invalidated by the data you cite ) ?
> - Ubuntu users have their own forums, like many others distributions and
> so they are not present ( and so this also bias more by being not at all
> representative of a group we can safely count as million of user, ie by
> taking extremly conservative view of the number given by Canonical  )
> - Ubuntu users, despite perception and enough converging evidences, are
> far from being a important enough group to count and to bias the poll ?

The answer's right there:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2012-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-104/desktop-distribution-of-the-year-4175441843/
Looks like most Ubuntu users actually don't use Unity. Maybe it sucks even
more than GNOME 3 does, maybe Ubuntu is actually better at promoting other
choices (see Kubuntu and Xubuntu) than we are, or maybe LinuxQuestions is
more likely to attract people using something other than the default than
FedoraForum, I don't know. (There seem to be more GNOME 3 users than Fedora
users on LinuxQuestions, so it looks like folks are also using GNOME 3 on
other distros. Still, it's much less popular than KDE and Xfce, and compared
to the year before, Cinnamon has almost caught up to it.)

        Kevin Kofler