I agree, this is quite frustrating. And it's not just reviews, even some new users say so. I installed Fedora on one of my friend's laptop trying to convince him that it is much better than his illegal copy of Windows 7. Guess what? He called me two days later saying that he couldn't find any good software on the GNOME software center. He was also unable to watch his movies or listen to his MP3 music. I told him over the phone to follow the instructions on rpmfusion's website and install the repository. But he couldn't, he'd never even seen a command line before and so, he messed up. He later brought it to me and I installed rpmfusion (for VLC Media Player and the other non-free software he would need) and also loaded WINE (something a Windows user for years would probably need). He hasn't complained since and now he says that he likes the new look. You might say that my friend is dumb but aren't all NORMAL *Windows/OS X* users like this? I started my journey on Linux with Ubuntu and since then I have switched to Fedora. I still have Ubuntu on my home PC, though. I was a NORMAL Windows user at first and I have struggled too! Well, I agree that the struggle was worth the new things that I got to learn but we must realise that there are people (most of the people) just need to get their job done. This is where I think Linux distros should put a bit more effort. People still relate Linux to developers, sysadmins and servers. I do embrace Open Source projects and Fedora's freeness, but what I do believe is that a simple button on the software center to enable repos like rpmfusion (just for those who want) shouldn't hurt. A simple step like that could make the OS more appealing to a potentially huge market and maybe someday Linux would overtake OS X or even Windows in terms of popularity. Please be aware that I am just trying to put the common people's viewpoint. This is just an opinion and not any sort of destructive criticism! Last, I would like to express my sincere apologies, in case I have offended someone. Regards, Madhurjya Roy On 28/12/2014, Scott Dowdle <dowdle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Full review on >> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141222#fedora > > Almost every Fedora review for the past umteen years has ended with this > type of summary (I paraphrase): > > "Fedora is great but they don't include all of the proprietary stuff you > want." > > Even the Linux Action Show, with all of their praise for Fedora... > complained that even though using the third-party rpmfusion repo is easier > than ever... more proprietary stuff is built for Ubuntu(-based) than > Fedora... so they just can't install all of the proprietary software like > they want. Argh. It is so frustrating. > > Sometimes I just feel that we can't win. :( Oh, and no I don't want to > abandon free software ethics to fix those issues... not that Red Hat legal > would let us even if we wanted to. > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
