Why people are not switching to Fedora

[Diogo Campos (gmail)]

> Release cadence
> Quite a few people mentioned this, ranging from those who wanted to 
> switch us to a rolling release, a tick/tock
> release style, to just long release cycles. Probably more people 
> saying they thought the current 6 Month cycle
> was just to harrowing than people who wanted rolling releases or 
> tick/tock releases.

> Upgrades
> Many people also pointed out that we had no UI for upgrading Fedora.

> 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)

> 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.

I think the division "system + apps", probably with "(RPM-)ostree + 
xdg-app" would heavily and wonderfully fix ALL the above items.

Instant, reliable and stable rolling release. Tiny, secure and 
reversible updates and upgrades. Power of app (free and non-free) 
distribution to upstream (releasing packagers to do other cool stuff in 
Fedora itself). And fixed state/API to permit easy and effective 3rd 
party distribution of non-free drivers and codecs.

So, maybe trying a official "Fedora Workstation ostree spin" starting 
from Fedora 23 would be a wise thing to do?

The reasons for this could be testing, experimentation, experience, 
feedback, marketing, sending a "We are going to the future. Come with 
us." message to the linux world, etc...

I would TOTALLY try it, btw.

(also, if I am not wrong, Ubuntu will try a similar thing - with Snappy 
replacing DEBs, I think - in 15.10/16.04).

> Built in backup solution
> A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup 
> solution

AFAIK Ubuntu just integrate the deja-dup UI in a item called "Backup" 
in GNOME-control-center (and pre-install it, of course). I think is a 
great solution.
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