Why people are not switching to Fedora

Hi, so a couple of weeks ago I blogged** about who Fedora Workstation is an
integrated system, but also asking for feedback for why people are not
migrating to Fedora Workstation, especially asking about why people would
be using GNOME 3 on another distro. So I got about 140 comments on that
post so I thought I should write up a summary and post here. There was of
course a lot of things mentioned, but I will try to keep this summary to
what I picked up as the recurring topics.

So while this of course is a poll consisting of self selected commentators
I still think the sample is big enough that we should take the feedback
into serious consideration for our plans going forward. Some of them I even
think are already handled by underway efforts.

Release cadence
Quite a few people mentioned this, ranging from those who wanted to switch
us to a rolling release, a tick/tock release style, to just long release
cycles. Probably more people saying they thought the current 6 Month cycle
was just to harrowing than people who wanted rolling releases or tick/tock
releases.

3rd Party Software
This was the single most brought up item. With people saying that they
stayed on other distros due to the pain of getting 3rd party software on
Fedora. This ranged from drivers (NVidia, Wi-Fi), to media codecs to end
user applications. Width of software available in general was also brought
up quite a few times. If anyone is in any doubt that our current policy
here is costing us users I think these comments clearly demonstrates
otherwise.

Optimus support
Quite a few people did bring up that our Optimus support wasn't great.
Luckily I know Bastien Nocera is working on something there based on work
by Dave Arlie, so hopefully this is one we can check off soon.

Upgrades
Many people also pointed out that we had no UI for upgrading Fedora.

HiDPI issues
A few comments on various challenges people have with HiDPI screens,
especially when dealing with non-GTK3 apps-

Multimonitor support
A few comments that our multimonitor support could be better

SELinux is a pain
A few comments about SELinux still getting in the way at times

Better Android integration
A few people asked for more/better Android device integration features

Built in backup solution
A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution

Also a few concrete requests in terms of applications for Fedora:
http://www.mixxx.org
http://www.vocalproject.net
https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/
http://peterlevi.com/variety/
http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org
choqok for GNOME  (microblogging client)


** URL -
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/04/20/fedora-workstat...
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