Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Eli Wapniarski]

I really hope you guys can take a step back and look at what is being written 
from the point of view of an outside observer. Nobody in this thread can 
agree. How do you expect a new user to not be confused.

Eli

On Friday 12 December 2014 23:10:14 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Friday 12 December 2014 16:43:09 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 17:43 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 01:14:39 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > For what it's worth, my suggestion was "vanilla", but it didn't get
> > > > much support.
> > > 
> > > I like 'base' better. Workstation is anyways a customized offering out
> > > of
> > > Fedora.
> > > 
> > > Just because Workstation, server, cloud are being called products people
> > > have already started spreading FUD that spins are somewhat less of
> > > Fedora
> > > than the products.
> > > 
> > > Fedora KDE is the best KDE desktop distribution in all respects. It
> > > would
> > > be a shame if media and users starts overlooking it because of the
> > > second-class connotation.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > I personally would prefer "product=Workstation, desktop=KDE" (or
> > whatever).
> 
> Personally I would prefer:
> 
> "product=Fedora"
> 
> Labeling the installation media, Desktop, Server, etc. Just confuse a noob
> into thinking that they install one thing and they would be limited like
> they would be if they installed a Microsoft product  (ie: Server, Home
> Editon, Professional Edition, Ultimate Edition.)
> 
> It's one of the things that I can't stand about Windows and love about
> Linux. With Windows the build denotes limitations of one kind of another.
> With Linux, I get a distro and I can build from it what I want. I want a
> desktop, I get a desktop.... What desktop... my choice.. Gnome, Kde, etc. I
> choose KDE :). I want a server, I install servers. Want both, go ahead. You
> are installing Linux you can do what you want. The "product" is Fedora's
> Distribution of Linux.
> 
> I know that nobody will agree... But thats OK... Thats just my 2 cents
> worth.
> > IOW make the specific desktop orthogonal to the selection of
> > Workstation. The default can keep being Gnome if it makes some people
> > happy.
> > 
> > Clearly either of these means more work for someone.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
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