Why people are not switching to Fedora

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Mon May 11 14:48:37 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 09:32 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

I think we need to discuss locking the kernel to a single major
version for the lifetime of each Fedora Workstation release.
Otherwise, we're probably going to have to give up on nVidia users.


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