humble suggestion to Fedora developers

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/31/2013 04:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/31/2013 12:09 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> these meta discussions seem only to highlight the things one doesn't
>> know about the other. I use both Fedora and Ubuntu.
>
> I use Fedora only and migrated to Xfce to avoid having to use Gnome 3. 
> My older sister uses Ubuntu, with me for (literally) in-house tech 
> support.  After a year fighting Unity on her desktop, she had me talk 
> her through installing and switching to Xfce.  (Parkinson's and 
> itty-bitty precise mouse movements don't mix!)  Now, she's asking me 
> to download the .iso for the latest Xubuntu so she can have the 
> computer guru at her school replace the Ubuntu on her netbook for the 
> same reason.  (I don't mind her doing it that way; they're getting 
> paid for it.)
>
> Given the choice, I prefer Fedora for myself, but if somebody just 
> wants to get away from Windows, I'll always point them to Ubuntu 
> because it's designed for "Windows refugees" and Just Works.  Now, 
> however, I suggest that they try Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu, 
> installing whichever one they like best.  (Unity isn't exactly for 
> everybody!)  When I first ran across Unix, I complained that the 
> biggest problem it had was that when you asked how to do something, 
> the answer had to start with, "That depends."  Now I realize that the 
> freedom to decide for yourself which distro, which shell, which DE you 
> use is its greatest asset, especially when you compare it to 
> Microsoft's One Size Fits Nobody.

Well I would say that for each person there's a distro & a DE that suits 
them. I "abandoned" Windows when I finally hit the "wall" of 
fuster-clucks....(imagine the Exchange server literally HANGING in the 
middle of shutting down ex-employee email exchange accounts?.....now 
imagine the CTO walks in...and asks YOU what the heck is going on!) In 
that instant I knew I had to "find" something else. Apple was (and to me 
still IS!) way too expensive for practical and economic people who are 
looking to save their pennies. Which left me with Linux, and I have 
never had a problem with the Gnome desktop.....nor the Unity one. If 
anything Unity to me anyway...is easier to use than Windows! I cannot 
understand why so many people were up in arms about the Gnome 
desktop...or the Unity one...I always thought Linux was for "freedom of 
choice" if you didn't like a certain 
desktop...download.....install...and use a DIFFERENT one! It's not that 
hard...remember......those programmers and developers who work hard at 
even MAKING some of the things we take for granted?.....have feelings 
too...and I don't think its fair to CONSTANTLY slam them for trying to 
be different, bold, daring, and anything but plain "vanilla"!...but hey 
that's just me!...


EGO II