On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 20:05 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Today I had a refrehsing drink in the sun with a friend of mine and we > had a discussion about Fedora and about how despite Fedora being GREAT > Ubuntu seems to be way more popular. There's a segment of the market that blindly follows whatever the latest trendy distribution is. Like sheep. Intermediate users who's sole hobby seems to be re-installing Linux. Over the years they've gone from Debian to Mandrake to Gentoo to Ubuntu... I don't remember if they ever jumped on Red Hat. It's been cool to hate Red Hat for a while now. (See: The gcc 2.96 non-debacle, etc) I suspect they're more of a noisy minority, people with nothing better to do than rave about how great the trendy distribution of the year is and flood support lists with questions about it, rather than an actual majority. And if you're friends with one of these, you get flooded with the questions, which I can only answer with "I don't know what your crazy ass distribution is doing" until I finally decide to install it on a spare machine, discover it blows chunks, and then the answer is "X blows chunks, install Fedora if you want me to help you", which is advice they gleefully ignore... Oh well, Gentoo/Ubuntu can have them. (Death to Mandrake*) (*) Seems mostly dead** now. (**) Which means its slightly alive.
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