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.)
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