On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
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?
Freedom != Choice dialogs for everything.
Our users have the freedom to install whatever desktop they like. And
where do you draw the line? Select browser? Select texteditor? Select
calculator? Select .... ?
Most users don't give a shit about this they just want to install and
be done with it. Those who want to select something different have the
freedom to do so.