Hi
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
I have been dealing with user questions in Fedora for around 10 years now and I would disagree with that assertion. We never really managed to attract a large crowd of regular consumers to Fedora who preferred the graphical interfaces for updates and the interfaces have been pretty poor despite several revisions (up2date, pup, gpk-update etc). It might be change with better software managers now but I suspect that most of our "regular" users are in fact using the command line for updates at this point.
what you or i prefer don't matter
Sure it does. Otherwise you would not insist that your perspective is the only right one and everyone else who has a different perspective is always "wrong" in any such discussion.
the ordinary user never uses yum/dnf at all and most of them just
react on the "new updates are available" in the GUI
I have been dealing with user questions in Fedora for around 10 years now and I would disagree with that assertion. We never really managed to attract a large crowd of regular consumers to Fedora who preferred the graphical interfaces for updates and the interfaces have been pretty poor despite several revisions (up2date, pup, gpk-update etc). It might be change with better software managers now but I suspect that most of our "regular" users are in fact using the command line for updates at this point.
Rahul
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