Release cadence Quite a few people mentioned this, ranging from those who wanted to switch us to a rolling release, a tick/tock release style, to just long release cycles. Probably more people saying they thought the current 6 Month cycle was just to harrowing than people who wanted rolling releases or tick/tock releases.
Upgrades Many people also pointed out that we had no UI for upgrading Fedora.
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)
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.
Instant, reliable and stable rolling release. Tiny, secure and reversible updates and upgrades. Power of app (free and non-free) distribution to upstream (releasing packagers to do other cool stuff in Fedora itself). And fixed state/API to permit easy and effective 3rd party distribution of non-free drivers and codecs.
So, maybe trying a official "Fedora Workstation ostree spin" starting from Fedora 23 would be a wise thing to do?
The reasons for this could be testing, experimentation, experience, feedback, marketing, sending a "We are going to the future. Come with us." message to the linux world, etc...
I would TOTALLY try it, btw.
(also, if I am not wrong, Ubuntu will try a similar thing - with Snappy replacing DEBs, I think - in 15.10/16.04).
Built in backup solution A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution
AFAIK Ubuntu just integrate the deja-dup UI in a item called "Backup" in GNOME-control-center (and pre-install it, of course). I think is a great solution.
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