On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Juggling with numbers like this is pointless in a Free Software. We > have no clue about our end users. All we have is common sense -- whch > in this case is not that common apparently. > > Apparently dwmw2's dad plus Callum Lerwick are now what we should be > designing our Linux desktop for. It's very hard to reach 95% of that > group. Reading the IRC log, the Fesco members technical arguments sound limited, and do focus on legacy use cases. That's really 10 years old stuff (CD line in - PC speaker was mentioned too - unused for me in that timeframe ...), so if this does not represent less than 5% of users, I wonder what will. There might be a conceptual problem with this decision, which perpetuates UIs that are throwbacks to the 90s. The main thing Fedora has going for it is its technical vision (given it does not do proprietary stuff, patented stuff, or DMCA violating stuff, usability is somewhat limited for "dad" type users), where breakage is well accepted on the graphics side, not so on the sound side it seems. Rémy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
