Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, > is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. +1 > For example, what proportion of users choose KDE or Gnome, > or some other Desktop Environment? > Does anybody know? > Suppose it turned out that far more use KDE than Gnome. > Would that not suggest that KDE should be made the default? I`d rather see choices. There still can be a default, and it doesn`t matter what it is: Just give the user choices when installing and afterwards. One user might want to install gnome and kde and xfce and whatever else there is to try them out. Another one may already know that they want gnome. I already know that I don`t want a graphical login and fvwm. Where is that choice? Why do we have to somehow figure out how to get what we want only after the install, when it`s kinda too late? Just think of all the time and resources wasted with downloading things we don`t need ... > Again, how many are installing on a machine that is already > partitioned? Suppose (my guess) it is something like 90%. Would it not > be more rational in that case to assume as default that users would > prefer to use that partitioning? No. The capacity required for /usr has increased over time. Same goes for / or /boot. Some people may want to keep an existing system and need an option in the installer to shrink some partitions to make room. Some people may install on a (new) computer they were unable to get without something pre-installed, and they don`t like whatever partitioning was used for that. Others may have upgraded their hardware and have added a few disks, and now they want to use the additional capacity and need to move their /home partition, and this kind of upgrade and change may be the reason that they think they can as well re-install. Others plugged in a(n old) disk they had sitting around because they want to use it to try out Fedora, and the partitioning of that disk has been made a long time ago for, let`s say, Debian. You can as well --- or even more reasonably --- assume that it is most unlikely that someone wants to use an existing partitioning as the default when installing. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
