Underlying DE for the Workstation product

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 02/01/2014 03:31 PM, Dan Mashal wrote:
>
> In general, for a desktop, people want something that "just works" and
> is "easy, simple and intuitive" to use.
I agree 100% with this.
And also something that meets upcoming user and hardware requirements 
(cloud storage, 13" 4K monitors and laptops with touchscreens on them).
That is really hard, but I'm positive that fedora is moving forward in 
that direction with each release.
As someone who works both on the desktop and the server, I'm also 
hopeful that by taking some of the server requirements of the desktop, 
you can get both better server and desktop products and not having them 
kind of drag each other down all the time.

> Building a reliable product goes FAR deeper than just a working
> desktop. I know that you do spend time in #Fedora on the front lines
> as I have seen you there before. I hope that you would agree with me
> that there is still a lot to be desired from the current "workstation
> offering" (which is DE independent).
>
> For example, disaster recovery needs a lot of work. How can we say
> Fedora is reliable when it is extremely difficult for a novice user to
> recover a broken system?
Yup.
One of the goals in the PRD is Better upgrade/rollback control.
What other issues apart from that do you think needs addressing?
- Andreas