Re: Why people are not switching to Fedora

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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 09:32 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you meant to include the nVidia driver as one of the
>> "technical issues", but it seems to be implied.  While that might be
>> the greatest driver in the world, there really isn't much we can do
>> about it breaking from a technical perspective.  It's proprietary, so
>> we can't fix it to build against the latest kernel we're going to
>> ship
>> and we rely on nVidia to play catch up.
>
> I think we need to discuss locking the kernel to a single major
> version for the lifetime of each Fedora Workstation release.
> Otherwise, we're probably going to have to give up on nVidia users.

Can you recall the last time where we shipped a kernel before nvidia
supported it?
We don't really wait for them but they don't take that long to catch up ...

You are suggesting a solution for a problem that doesn't really exists
much in practice.
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