Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Michael Scherer]

Le samedi 09 février 2013 à 11:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit :
> Rave it wrote:
> 
> > There is a current poll at fedora forum.
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=284463
> > 
> > The winner is.......
> 
> There are several factors which bias this poll:
> * GNOME 3 is the default in Fedora, so of course more Fedora users will be
> using it, merely due to the fact that it is the default.
> * Some people actually left Fedora over GNOME 3.
> * Conversely, and perhaps even more importantly, many (possibly even most)
> GNOME 3 users are actually using Fedora now, because Fedora is universally
> recommended to people wanting to try GNOME 3 as the distro with the best
> GNOME 3 support.
> 
> If you do a poll across users of all distributions, you get very different results:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2012-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-104/desktop-environment-of-the-year-4175441851/
> and I believe the results for Fedora would be very different as well if we
> picked a different default.

Well, a majority of people think such polls are useless, thanks to
demonstrate that once more. Just to be as clear as possible, I will only
speak of 2 points :

1) 792 people. Just to compare, there is 300 people on #fedora-devel on
irc, and 800 on #puppet on irc, a media which is said to be "dying".
There as around 4000 visitors in FOSDEM in 2008, 5 years ago. So the
number of people is just low. I do truly hope we have more than a
handful 1000 users across _all_ distributions. 

2) if the fedora forums poll is biased due to "default to gnome 3", then
why isn't unity being more represented in the linuxquestion poll ?
Is it because :
- Unity, by some magic reason, do not bias anything while gnome-shell
does ( ie, your argument is invalidated by the data you cite ) ?
- Ubuntu users have their own forums, like many others distributions and
so they are not present ( and so this also bias more by being not at all
representative of a group we can safely count as million of user, ie by
taking extremly conservative view of the number given by Canonical  )
- Ubuntu users, despite perception and enough converging evidences, are
far from being a important enough group to count and to bias the poll ?


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Michael Scherer