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
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.