PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 9 15:03:38 UTC 2010



On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:51 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> Here's the camps I see:
>>
>> 1. One group wants us to aim for mom/pop/grandma/desktop users - the
>> apple market or what ubuntu aims for.
>>
>> 2. one group wants us to aim exclusively for the bleeding edge open
>> source developer market.
>>
>> 3. one group wants us to aim for the admin/experienced user who wants
>> newer things but doesn't have time nor interest to fight with lots of broken things.
>
> That is one way to phrase it. But really, the first is not just a
> 'marked', it is everybody. Who wouldn't want a system that works without
> much of a hassle and lets me do what I want to do without requiring
> constant attention to breakage and changes ?

I like systems I can control and influence. The system targeted in #1 is 
not that.

-sv



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