F18 - huge drop in user numbers

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 01/29/2013 10:30 AM, inode0 wrote:
> While I am just using my intuition about human behavior now I suspect 
> after an unusual period of two months with weekly reminders in the 
> press that things were so wrong with F18 that it couldn't be released 
> there are probably a significant number of users who are just being 
> more cautious than normal at this point waiting to see how much luck 
> other early adopters have with the release before diving in. At least 
> that is my optimistic the sky isn't falling take on it at this point.

These stories might have to do something with it

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4MjI

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/230255/alan-cox-fedora-18-the-worst-red-hat-distro-switches-to-ubuntu

Alan Cox's reaction at

https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/dEW3SeRT2ih

Also Anaconda in Fedora 18 seems to have some bad press as well and this 
one in particular seems to be referenced quite a bit

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html

Rahul