Underlying DE for the Workstation product, Desktop -vs- Workstation

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:45:05 -0500, you wrote:

>One of the major divisive actions taken by Ubuntu was to make
>Canonical's own desktop Unity the default for that desktop.  There was a
>huge outpouring of discontent and it fragmented their user-base.  You
>should avoid that sort of situation at all costs. In that context there
>shouldn't be a default desktop environment for the Workstation Product
>if this proves to be too controversial which it is.

Ubuntu has always had a default desktop, the discontent was the
decision to change from GNOME 2 -> Unity (and the discontent basically
mirrors the GNOME 2 -> GNOME 3 issue).

The fragmenting that Ubuntu experienced was the breaking up of the
Ubuntu GNOME community into Unity / GNOME 3 / Cinnamon / MATE, with
some likely switching over to the other Ubuntu secondary desktops.

>There can be officially Fedora Workstation "supported desktops" and the
>select between Fedora branded versions of Gnome Shell (Gnome 3), Mate
>(Gnome 2) and KDE (important!) available via the installer. This isn't

At which point the person trying out Fedora reboots the computer and
goes back to Windows, or if determined tries a different distribution.