----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:27:35 PM > Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop > > On 02/05/2013 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: > > On 2013-02-05, 06:19 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> Reality is, when mentioning Fedora to Linux users, I am having > >> difficulties to not get laughed at. "Freaks'/nerds' distro", > >> "Ubuntu > >> is much easier", "Fedora lacks soooo much", "Way too unstable", > >> "Way > >> too short life-cycles" are the usual answers. > > > > Good people walk balanced step towards the goal. Others, without > > knowing, dance around them contemporary dances. (Franz Kafka) > > > > I wouldn't be worried that Fedora is not cool. Actually, thinking > > about > > it, that's the best part of Fedora. > > Absolutely d'accord ... But why have this "kool default DE" and not > leave the choice to what its users actually use? > > Or differently: One of Fedora's "higher" goal is "freedom" - Why not > demonstrate this attitude by example and decouple Fedora from Gnome? > Is this a technical coupling you speak about or just because of the download button? I mean Fedora being coupled to Gnome for me means that if I install from the KDE spin I'll get a full blown Gnome installation too. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team > Ralf > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
