Why people are not switching to Fedora

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> Christian Schaller píše v Čt 07. 05. 2015 v 14:34 -0400:
> Optimus support
>> Quite a few people did bring up that our Optimus support wasn't
>> great. Luckily I know Bastien Nocera is working on
>> something there based on work by Dave Arlie, so hopefully this is
>> one we can check off soon.
>
> I had a talk on Fedora Workstation in front of 100 people who were
> mostly our target audience (developers, students,...) and I also asked
> them what annoys them on Linux desktop the most. Support for multiple
> graphics cards was the most frequent answer. No distribution has
> really solved this problem.
>
> And for Fedora I would also add nVidia drivers. Not having multimedia
> support by default is a disadvantage, but it's really a matter of
> running one command and installing a couple of packages. But if you
> don't have good graphics card drivers or they break with every new
> release of kernel it's a dealbreaker because it can't be reliably
> solved by a couple of commands.
>
> So instead of complaining about issues that can't be solved because
> they are not technical issues (patent-protected codecs), let's focus
> on problems that are technical because there is still a lot of room
> for improvement.

I'm not sure if you meant to include the nVidia driver as one of the
"technical issues", but it seems to be implied.  While that might be
the greatest driver in the world, there really isn't much we can do
about it breaking from a technical perspective.  It's proprietary, so
we can't fix it to build against the latest kernel we're going to ship
and we rely on nVidia to play catch up.

josh