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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
