Why people are not switching to Fedora

[Ryan D'Amour]

Hi all!

I think one of the main issues with users migrating is the "ease-of-use"
factor that some of the larger 'competitors' offer, such as Ubuntu or
Mint.  Realistically, these distributions are curtailed to meet the needs
of the average desktop user, as well as the non-cli-guru.  Things such as
the Software Center are appealing for most who are attempting to get into
the linux realm, as learning cli can be overwhelming at times for some.
I'm not saying this is the end-all be-all answer,  nor do I have a
suggestion are far as how to tackle this issue, but I do feel it would help
with the 'enticement' factor towards those who are looking for a
distribution to learn on, as well as grow with.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb at znmeb.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > I didn't think the request for comments would leave us with the
> blueprint for
> > creating the ultimate Linux distribution, and to some degree taking
> users from
> > other distributions is a secondary concern. But I did feel the request
> could help
> > us identify some pain points that if addressed could make us a more
> likely choice
> > not just for users of other distributions, but also for Mac and Windows
> users.
>
> I've never used a Mac so I can't help you there, but I can give you a
> long list of pain points for Windows. Honestly, the only reason I'd
> install Windows on a new machine would be if I had to use the full
> desktop version of Office. Nothing else works as well - not Google
> Docs, not Libre/Open Office, not even Office 365 or Office on a Mac or
> an iPad. If you need *Office*, you need it exactly and nothing else
> will do.
>
> On my laptop (64-bit Intel i5 with 8 GB of RAM, Windows 8.1 / Fedora
> 22) when it's booted in Windows it takes *minutes* for it to come up
> and be ready for work. In Fedora, it's less than a minute. The disk
> thrashing on Windows (probably NTFS being super-careful not to lose
> any data) is painful in the extreme.
>
> Then there's the mixed-metaphor desktop / tablet / mouse / touchscreen
> fiasco. And the "apps" for news, sports, weather, etc. that distract
> me from my work. And then there's the cumbersome installers for
> open-source pacakges like R, RStudio, PostgreSQL, MSysGit and OSGeo4W.
> I used to distribute a Windows-installer-based equivalent of my Fedora
> remix. It takes *hours* to install and requires the user to accept the
> defaults in *dozens* of screens. I've replaced that mess with an
> install of Boot2Docker and a "docker pull". ;-)
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