I didn't think the request for comments would leave us with the blueprint for creating the ultimate Linux distribution, and to some degree taking users from other distributions is a secondary concern. But I did feel the request could help us identify some pain points that if addressed could make us a more likely choice not just for users of other distributions, but also for Mac and Windows users. Of course as we move forward we should make sure to try to poll wider to learn more, for instance I think someone on the blog suggested we reach out to certain reddit forums. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 3:04:45 PM > Subject: Re: Why people are not switching to Fedora > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:34 AM, 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. > > If the actual question was, "Why aren't you migrating to Fedora > Workstation?", I wonder what their current environment was. I migrated > to Fedora a few years ago from openSUSE for two reasons: > > 1. They switched from a six-month cycle to an eight-month cycle and > still had problems meeting deadlines, and > 2. The Planet CCRMA computer music tools are built on Fedora. > > So now I'm perfectly happy with Fedora Workstation. I'd like a rolling > release but I'm not going back to openSUSE just to get Tumbleweed, or, > for that matter, NVidia or ATI drivers or Flash or codecs. But if > someone were to ask me, "Why aren't you migrating to openSUSE (or > Ubuntu or Arch or Debian or Mint or Mageia or Gentoo)?" I'd simply > say, "Because they have no *compelling* advantage and I'd have to > spend a couple of weeks getting up to speed on the way *they* do > things." > > They're all fine distros, they all have wonderful communities, they > all do a good job of tracking upstream, I can compile unpackaged > software on them, I can remix them as long as I don't infringe on > trademarks, etc. But they aren't "better" than Fedora and Fedora's not > really "better" than they are. > > So if you want to take users away from Ubuntu, you need a *compelling* > advantage. Fedora Workstation has to make users badass at something > meaningful in a way that Ubuntu doesn't. > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
