And don't let the door hit you on the way out

[Robert Myers]

Hello, all,

I've been using Red Hat and then Fedora for a long time.  The only
reason I've stuck with Fedora this long is that I am very grateful to
Red Hat for its contribution to the community.

HOWEVER.  As time has passed, Fedora has become increasingly
demanding, idiosyncratic, and user-hostile.  I can't keep up with the
tick-tock any more, and I'm tired of playing where's waldo so as to
figure out how to do the most obvious things, like how to bring up a
terminal or how to change the power settings with the latest release
of FC-infinity.

The precipitating event is actually caused by Windows, which will not
accommodate all 24Gb of RAM I have on one machine without my paying
blackmail (which I would have to pay over and over again), and Fedora
doesn't even aim at being a replacement for Windows.

Perhaps I will become just as dissatisified with Ubuntu as I have been
with everything else, but maybe I'll die or become senile first.  My
impression of system professionals has not changed since I first
started using computers, which was long before anything resembling x86
was even a gleam in anyone's eye.  All I can say is I hope y'all are
having fun, because your endless flights of fancy are nothing but a
pain for ordinary users.  My dream is a bare-metal hypervisor that
actually works, so that I can actually switch between one
idiosyncratic system and another with the blink of an eye.

Fedora will stay on some machines for a while, but I think I can see
the last station on the line.  I wish I could say it's been fun.

Robert Myers.