[Ambassadors] Fedora is the 2º most used Linux system

[Jukka Palander]

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 11:37 -0100, Nuno Rodrigues Rodrigues wrote:

> According to experts, this decline may be explained by the
> introduction of the Unity interface in Ubuntu for users new to Linux,
> is more complicated than the GNOME version 3, still used in other
> distributions from the top of the table."
> 
Distrowatch always shows high ranking when new distro is released. Just
wait for the next Ubuntu release.. Unfortunately.

And according my personal knowledge (by all the friends and other Fedora
users who I know or where I have been installing Fedora) Gnome 3 is
lacking a lot and I have installed mostly the XFCE spin. This is due the
Gnome 3.x's really poor user interface, it's modifiability and highly
unergonomic window management.
Good (or maybe bad) news is that all the Ubuntu users who I know are
totally annoyed about Unity also and they want their old style Gnome 2.x
back!

Roughly I would say, I've been installing, less than 20% Gnome and more
than 80% XFCE. All of them because people want their old style Gnome
back and XFCE is the easiest way to get the same feeling.

I seriously would think if Gnome right way to proceed for Fedora? At
least I say NO -it is not! We should think about something else to be a
default desktop. Personally I also switched into the XFCE spin from F14
after I had skipped F15 entirely!

I am really sad, because this is not Fedoras fault. I _love_ Fedora but
I do hate Gnome 3 which is going 10 years back on usability for me. Just
being nice looking is not enough.

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Jukka