Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rick Stuart wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 
>  >> But please, please make it a lot easier on non-geek people so that
>  >> they can also use this great stuff called fedora. And belive me there
>  >> are people wanting to do so, but they can't because we don't let them.
>  >> They need some features to be enabled by default or else they won't
>  >> know how that they even exist.
> 
> I feel like the real concern voiced by Valent Turkovic has been missed 
> by all three of the responses I saw.  What are we expecting the average 
> Joe who wants to try out this cool new thing called Linux to feel?  He 
> can load it up and see a pretty twisty graphic but then can't get the 
> simplest thing like web browsing to work without installing a lot of 
> extra packages that are only obvious by a long Google search, abuse on 
> the forums (RTFM) or a previous experience.

That is a useful thing to keep in mind but when you are using test 
releases coming across bugs is not unexpected. Working with developers 
by reporting those bugs is more useful than calling things a disaster.

Rahul