On 02/17/2013 12:38 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
I believe there is, in fact, a way to reasonably reliably gauge
broader opinion. While Fedora doesn't seem to have the sort of a
community that is prepared to fork or repackage the distribution at a
moment's displeasure, Ubuntu does, and there are number of variants
favouring different desktop environments.
Gordan
Fedora offers 9 versions <
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/> in addition
to the mainline release, including KDE, XFCE, and LXDE. That's in
addition to the availability of MATE and Cinnamon in the mainline release.
Still, FOSS has no reliable way to measure who likes what, or who uses
what. Things like counting downloads or clicks at Distrowatch are a
long way from measuring usage, and can be very easily gamed. When
someone says something like they don't use KDE because it is too
cluttered or they don't use Gnome Shell because it is too barren, we
have no way to determine how many other people feel the same or if, in
fact, that person was even telling the truth. We can't take online
postings too seriously, because almost all the fora target enthusiasts
of one product or another.