Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 24, 2012 0:16 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Complaints and changes by khim
Parent article: Changes and complaints

> Perhaps, but what does it change? As alankila said: Linux currently is for the 1%, not the 99% - you can afford to lose some of that 1% if you gain nearly any fraction of the 99%: number of users would increase dramatically.

A false dichotomy. You don't have to upset your current users in order to gain new ones. in fact, it's doing the opposite that Microsoft, Apple and now Android have grown. Network effects are your best friend. Or would have been, should I say.

In two months it's going to be a year from the release of Gnome 3. What fraction of that 99% will have Gnome 3 won in that time?

Complaints and changes

Posted Mar 1, 2012 3:51 UTC (Thu) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]

> In two months it's going to be a year from the release of Gnome 3. What fraction of that 99% will have Gnome 3 won in that time?

Excellent point.

Is Fedora the only distro that defaults to it?

So GNOME went from having nearly all the distros use it by default (GNOME2) to one?

I suspect that GNOME3 not only has no significant gain of the 99%, but has lost most of the 1%.