On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:35:17AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > Interesting poll - of course some will jump on it as a non-scientific > and why it's inadequate because it either is too broad an audience or > too narrow .. :-) Or perhaps with only 600+ participants the std error > may be too high (what is it anyway if one makes reasonable > distributional assumptions for the poll takers .. stats quiz :-) ) .. Right, this poll is most probably in no way representative for the majority of the Fedora end-users. > however it jives exactly with my own experience where everyone I know > dropped gnome shell and moved to either KDE or xfce (not without > grumbling) .. of course my experience is def too small a sample size :-) I have the same experience (and I moved to Xfce myself too), but most people I know are long-term UNIX/Linux developers. > While it may make sense to make KDE the default DE for fedora - I > suspect that this cannot happen in fedora due to pressures from the > large number of gnome devs associated with Fedora - or could it? Should it? > > I wonder if moving Gnome shell as a tablet spin and making KDE the > default laptop/desktop DE would have been a really smart move. Is it too > late? Perhaps we all really want a phone DE on our 42 inch desktops with > a touch screen that somehow doesn't cause muscle strain ... KDE is pretty nice these days, but IMHO way too complex to use/configure for the average end-user. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
