Adieu, Fedora

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/12/2011 07:54 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> People are tired of using poor quality software written
> to a broken OS.

Say rather that most people are so used to badly written software and a 
broken OS that they don't realize how bad things are; they think it's 
normal.

Right now, I'm house sitting for Jerry Pournelle 
(http://www.jerrypournelle.com) the BYTE columnist and SF author.  For 
years he's been calling both Unix and Linux an employment program for 
gurus.  Mind you, he does stuff on his Windows boxes that most "power 
users" couldn't understand, but that's different; he understands DOS 
commands.  I'm still trying, off and on, to get him to take another look 
at Linux.  Not Fedora, Ubuntu, because if he's going to try Linux, he's 
going to need a distro that's as easy to use as possible because he has 
neither the time nor the inclination for the learning curve that Fedora 
would require.  Still, if I can get him to see how good it is, we'll 
have a vocal and highly-visible advocate on our side.  (Please note that 
he's not too much of a Windows fanatic.  I think he has at least one 
Linux server here, and I know he's experimented with recent Macs and had 
good things to say about them.)  So getting a Good Word about Linux from 
his is worth getting because there are a lot of people out there who 
heed his word.

The point is, you have to match the distro to the user, not the other 
way around.  If the OP isn't happy with Fedora, I hope he finds a distro 
he likes better.