----- Original Message ----- > From: "drago01" <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 2:41:41 PM > Subject: Re: Why people are not switching to Fedora > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi, so a couple of weeks ago I blogged** about who Fedora Workstation is an > > integrated system, but also asking for > > feedback for why people are not migrating to Fedora Workstation, especially > > asking about why people would be using > > GNOME 3 on another distro. So I got about 140 comments on that post so I > > thought I should write up a summary and > > post here. There was of course a lot of things mentioned, but I will try to > > keep this summary to what I picked up > > as the recurring topics. > > > > So while this of course is a poll consisting of self selected commentators > > I still think the sample is big enough that we > > should take the feedback into serious consideration for our plans going > > forward. Some of them I even think are already > > handled by underway efforts. > > > > > [...] > > > 3rd Party Software > > This was the single most brought up item. With people saying that they > > stayed on other distros due to the pain of > > getting 3rd party software on Fedora. This ranged from drivers (NVidia, > > Wi-Fi), to media codecs to end user > > applications. Width of software available in general was also brought up > > quite a few times. If anyone is in any doubt > > that our current policy here is costing us users I think these comments > > clearly demonstrates otherwise. > > Its getting worse RF does not have a repo for F22 which means once it > is released even RF won't be an easy option for a while. > > > > > HiDPI issues > > A few comments on various challenges people have with HiDPI screens, > > especially when dealing with non-GTK3 apps- > > Well I had patches to fix this (requires wayland though; but still > works for legacy apps) see > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728902 > Should try to find time to fnish them at some point. > > > Multimonitor support > > A few comments that our multimonitor support could be better > > > > SELinux is a pain > > A few comments about SELinux still getting in the way at times > > Anything more specific than that? One commenter mentioned that his Samba config was difficult due to SELinux. Don't remember any other concrete items mentioned, but I did actually myself hit a SELinux related issue yesterday (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555785) > > Better Android integration > > A few people asked for more/better Android device integration features > What does that mean? I think the comments was in the context of easier data sharing between their phone and the desktop. > > Built in backup solution > > A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution > > > > Also a few concrete requests in terms of applications for Fedora: > > http://www.mixxx.org > > http://www.vocalproject.net > > https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/ > > http://peterlevi.com/variety/ > > http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org > > choqok for GNOME (microblogging client) > > Well if there are no legal issues (assuming all of those are FOSS) we > could just package them. Yeah, think they are all free. > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
