On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:12:16AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Whenever I go to a tech meetup or talk to someone from a new startup > > company, their developers are inevitably using a different (usually > > proprietary) desktop OS, plus a non-Fedora distribution on their code. > > We're being left behind and left out. It doesn't matter how > > theoretically great we are if we end up with no users. > It comes down to the proprietary OS "just works." Top on the list: lack of > video problems on proprietary OS's compared to linux. Next, I'll guess > it's HCI related, in that the world's users have decided interaction via > GUI is not merely preferred, but required. If CLI is required, it's > disqualifying (e.g. there's no GUI means of upgrading from Fedora 18 to > 19). Probably true. I'm not suggesting we bet it all on going after the desktop market. Everything else aside, OS X (and Android/ChromeOS, for that matter) have a significant advantage in having hardware that they're essentially bundled with, and we're just plain not going to have that. We've got a desktop team with significant investment in Fedora, and I think as a distribution we should support them, but it's the target where the code is being deployed that I'm really interested in. (If we can create some interested there through a better desktop experience too, though, I'm all for it.) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
