<p dir="ltr">+1. I too have experienced this.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 29-Dec-2014 10:40 AM, "Trupti Kini" <<a href="mailto:kinitrupti@gmail.com">kinitrupti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I agree and +1 for this<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div><i><b><font size="1">Regards,<br></font></b></i></div><font size="1">Trupti Kini<br></font></div><font size="1">Research Assistant, FOSSEE<br>Aerospace lab, IIT Bombay<br><a href="http://fossevangelist.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">http://fossevangelist.blogspot.in/</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Madhurjya Roy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roymadhurjya@gmail.com" target="_blank">roymadhurjya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree, this is quite frustrating. And it's not just reviews, even<br>
some new users say so. I installed Fedora on one of my friend's laptop<br>
trying to convince him that it is much better than his illegal copy of<br>
Windows 7.<br>
<br>
Guess what? He called me two days later saying that he couldn't find<br>
any good software on the GNOME software center. He was also unable to<br>
watch his movies or listen to his MP3 music. I told him over the phone<br>
to follow the instructions on rpmfusion's website and install the<br>
repository. But he couldn't, he'd never even seen a command line<br>
before and so, he messed up. He later brought it to me and I installed<br>
rpmfusion (for VLC Media Player and the other non-free software he<br>
would need) and also loaded WINE (something a Windows user for years<br>
would probably need). He hasn't complained since and now he says that<br>
he likes the new look. You might say that my friend is dumb but aren't<br>
all NORMAL *Windows/OS X* users like this?<br>
<br>
I started my journey on Linux with Ubuntu and since then I have<br>
switched to Fedora. I still have Ubuntu on my home PC, though. I was a<br>
NORMAL Windows user at first and I have struggled too! Well, I agree<br>
that the struggle was worth the new things that I got to learn but we<br>
must realise that there are people (most of the people) just need to<br>
get their job done.<br>
<br>
This is where I think Linux distros should put a bit more effort.<br>
People still relate Linux to developers, sysadmins and servers. I do<br>
embrace Open Source projects and Fedora's freeness, but what I do<br>
believe is that a simple button on the software center to enable repos<br>
like rpmfusion (just for those who want) shouldn't hurt. A simple step<br>
like that could make the OS more appealing to a potentially huge<br>
market and maybe someday Linux would overtake OS X or even Windows in<br>
terms of popularity.<br>
<br>
Please be aware that I am just trying to put the common people's<br>
viewpoint. This is just an opinion and not any sort of destructive<br>
criticism!<br>
Last, I would like to express my sincere apologies, in case I have<br>
offended someone.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Madhurjya Roy<br>
<br>
<br>
On 28/12/2014, Scott Dowdle <<a href="mailto:dowdle@montanalinux.org" target="_blank">dowdle@montanalinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Greetings,<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> Full review on<br>
>> <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141222#fedora" target="_blank">http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141222#fedora</a><br>
><br>
> Almost every Fedora review for the past umteen years has ended with this<br>
> type of summary (I paraphrase):<br>
><br>
> "Fedora is great but they don't include all of the proprietary stuff you<br>
> want."<br>
><br>
> Even the Linux Action Show, with all of their praise for Fedora...<br>
> complained that even though using the third-party rpmfusion repo is easier<br>
> than ever... more proprietary stuff is built for Ubuntu(-based) than<br>
> Fedora... so they just can't install all of the proprietary software like<br>
> they want. Argh. It is so frustrating.<br>
><br>
> Sometimes I just feel that we can't win. :( Oh, and no I don't want to<br>
> abandon free software ethics to fix those issues... not that Red Hat legal<br>
> would let us even if we wanted to.<br>
><br>
> TYL,<br>
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