Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

>> , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine
>> doing exactly what I suggest (making people actually pick their download).
>> Their download button actually points to a selector, not directly to an ISO.
>
> That would be the SUSE that along with Mandriva got completely panned
> when Ubuntu showed up, then?

Is the situation Fedora is in essentially better? I feel no.

Reality is, when mentioning Fedora to Linux users, I am having 
difficulties to not get laughed at. "Freaks'/nerds' distro", "Ubuntu is 
much easier", "Fedora lacks soooo much", "Way too unstable", "Way too 
short life-cycles" are the usual answers.

> To the point where they've since been sold
> two times and have never really recovered.
Yes, primarily because they did not make enough money to satisfy their 
shareholders. Nevertheless, at least in Germany (SUSE had never played a 
major role outside of Germany), openSUSE seem to have a pretty stable 
and solid user base.

Ralf