During the opening remarks at Flock to Fedora, we launched this year’s Fedora User and Contributor survey. This survey is designed to help the Fedora Project Leadership and others who are interested in understanding our community and project ecosystem better, to help us make more informed choices and decisions with our policies and strategic planning to continue to grow and support the Fedora Project.
The survey will close on June 30th, so please do try to prioritise time to take the survey and share your feedback with us.
I don’t use flatpaks, so I’m not qualified to opine on what order flatpaks should be in; however, the question is mandatory and has no ‘I don’t use flatpaks’ option. Could such an option be added?
I did the survey a minute ago and that section looked mandatory without a skip; I noted elsewhere I don’t use Flatpaks but ordered stuff in a way I’d likely use it.
Interesting survey! Will the results be published publicly?
Some feedback:
Loupe should probably be added as an option for the image viewer (It’s the default in gnome, also called “Image Viewer”).
Another popular video player for gnome is Showtime, it’s planned to become the default in gnome 49.
It might be (very) useful to find out how people are developing using the atomic variants (toolbox / distrobox / podman / flatpak / layering / homebrew / IDE with devcontainers, etc…). If the results are used to make decisions this would be important because people might not be using fedora for development tools (flatpak, non-fedora container).
At the moment I don’t have time to take the Survey.
{Sorry if I end up saying something unrelated to the survey, but I want to say this while the post is still fresh.}
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I chose Fedora KDE because it’s a Distro which seems to be well supported with pretty recent software updates.
Since I am an unusual user I am willing to “fight the beast” that is Linux, but honestly I too would like if (as a representative goal) “Fedora could be installed and set-up by never using the Konsole”.
Most people already send the PC to a store spending €200 just to clean the dust and delete unused apps; the average user won’t have the patience to deal with “raw pure Linux” and hardware sellers and technicians won’t bother both for the previous reason and until the userbase is large enough.
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Nobody even knows or cares that Android is a Linux Distro because it just works.
Different distros are made for different end users, but for normal people a Distro which just works and do what the end user wants is the goal.
I would like to see Linux in general, but Fedora in particular as it seems to be the most stable among the 9 distros I’ve tried, to just get the basics right first and foremost.
Let’s be honest, Linux is chaos. I’ve recently filed bugs for things such as the following, which don’t work:
lock screen bug
swap space bug that hangs my system
brightness control randomly disappearing
brightness control synchronization bug (related to #3)
window placement upon wake up from sleep (not even implemented)
Wayland (I think I’m gonna throw up)
And then there are the application bugs such as Thunderbird SIGSEGV that crashes my entire system
The simple stuff that worked wonderfully on SunOS way back in 1988 still doesn’t work on Fedora and other Linuxes…
I only tolerate it because I’m suspicious of macOS although I cannot verify how much 'spying ’ it does. Windows… forget it…
It’s problematic that there isn’t a back-button, only a next-button. I wanted to go back a page but it’s impossible.
Official GNOME tools like Loupe and Gnome Text Editor are not listed as options, this is a problem when asking people for their default tools. Most people On Workstation will use the two tools mentioned, as they are the ones installed by default. ‘eog’ is not the official Gnome Image Viewer anymore.
Desktop environments and window managers are both listed as options (e.g. GNOME & DWM), while they are not comparable in scope.
