[snip long rants]
The "customers" of Fedora are the users. If you
irritate or frustrate your users, especially if the
cost is $0 to move to something else, you WILL lose
market share and hence mind share.
Additional data points that might add to the flames:
1) I have a co-worker new to Linux. He tried F15 and hated it,
then went back to F14. I believe WinXP/Vista/7 users
trying Linux for the first time ARE confused by F15/Gnome3.
2) Other friends/co-workers have moved to Ubuntu for their
desktop and only use RHEL/CentOS for servers (No Fedora).
3) It took me hours to get my F15 laptop sane including
finding obscure settings to turn on the minimize in
windows, and a working printer configuration application.
These are the reasons why only one of my Linux-based
laptops/netbooks/desktops is F15 and the rest are F14
or Ubuntu.
I hope to try Fedora 16 alpha soon. I hope that most
of the major objections to Gnome 3 in F15 have been
addressed and that developers have listened to the complaints.
I plan to remain a loyal Fedora user as I have used RHL &
Fedora since about RHL 2 or 3 circa 1995 (and Slackware
before that).
Open source is GREAT, but developers must remember
that the cost (time and $) to move from one version to another
is very low....
Cheers,
--
Wade Hampton
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