Why people are not switching to Fedora

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "drago01" <drago01 at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 2:41:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Why people are not switching to Fedora
> 
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, so a couple of weeks ago I blogged** about who Fedora Workstation is an
> > integrated system, but also asking for
> > feedback for why people are not migrating to Fedora Workstation, especially
> > asking about why people would be using
> > GNOME 3 on another distro. So I got about 140 comments on that post so I
> > thought I should write up a summary and
> > post here. There was of course a lot of things mentioned, but I will try to
> > keep this summary to what I picked up
> > as the recurring topics.
> >
> > So while this of course is a poll consisting of self selected commentators
> > I still think the sample is big enough that we
> > should take the feedback into serious consideration for our plans going
> > forward. Some of them I even think are already
> > handled by underway efforts.
> >
> 
> > [...]
> 
> > 3rd Party Software
> > This was the single most brought up item. With people saying that they
> > stayed on other distros due to the pain of
> > getting 3rd party software on Fedora. This ranged from drivers (NVidia,
> > Wi-Fi), to media codecs to end user
> > applications. Width of software available in general was also brought up
> > quite a few times. If anyone is in any doubt
> > that our current policy here is costing us users I think these comments
> > clearly demonstrates otherwise.
> 
> Its getting worse RF does not have a repo for F22 which means once it
> is released even RF won't be an easy option for a while.
> 
> >
> > HiDPI issues
> > A few comments on various challenges people have with HiDPI screens,
> > especially when dealing with non-GTK3 apps-
> 
> Well I had patches to fix this (requires wayland though; but still
> works for legacy apps) see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728902
> Should try to find time to fnish them at some point.
> 
> > Multimonitor support
> > A few comments that our multimonitor support could be better
> >
> > SELinux is a pain
> > A few comments about SELinux still getting in the way at times
> 
> Anything more specific than that?
One commenter mentioned that his Samba config was difficult due to 
SELinux. Don't remember any other concrete items mentioned, but I did actually
myself hit a SELinux related issue yesterday (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555785)



> > Better Android integration
> > A few people asked for more/better Android device integration features

> What does that mean?
I think the comments was in the context of easier data sharing between
their phone and the desktop.

 
> > Built in backup solution
> > A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution
> >
> > Also a few concrete requests in terms of applications for Fedora:
> > http://www.mixxx.org
> > http://www.vocalproject.net
> > https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/
> > http://peterlevi.com/variety/
> > http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org
> > choqok for GNOME  (microblogging client)
> 
> Well if there are no legal issues (assuming all of those are FOSS) we
> could just package them.

Yeah, think they are all free.


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