Le samedi 09 février 2013 à 11:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > Rave it wrote: > > > There is a current poll at fedora forum. > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=284463 > > > > The winner is....... > > There are several factors which bias this poll: > * GNOME 3 is the default in Fedora, so of course more Fedora users will be > using it, merely due to the fact that it is the default. > * Some people actually left Fedora over GNOME 3. > * Conversely, and perhaps even more importantly, many (possibly even most) > GNOME 3 users are actually using Fedora now, because Fedora is universally > recommended to people wanting to try GNOME 3 as the distro with the best > GNOME 3 support. > > If you do a poll across users of all distributions, you get very different > results: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2012-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-104/desktop-environment-of-the-year-4175441851/ > and I believe the results for Fedora would be very different as well if we > picked a different default.
Well, a majority of people think such polls are useless, thanks to demonstrate that once more. Just to be as clear as possible, I will only speak of 2 points : 1) 792 people. Just to compare, there is 300 people on #fedora-devel on irc, and 800 on #puppet on irc, a media which is said to be "dying". There as around 4000 visitors in FOSDEM in 2008, 5 years ago. So the number of people is just low. I do truly hope we have more than a handful 1000 users across _all_ distributions. 2) if the fedora forums poll is biased due to "default to gnome 3", then why isn't unity being more represented in the linuxquestion poll ? Is it because : - Unity, by some magic reason, do not bias anything while gnome-shell does ( ie, your argument is invalidated by the data you cite ) ? - Ubuntu users have their own forums, like many others distributions and so they are not present ( and so this also bias more by being not at all representative of a group we can safely count as million of user, ie by taking extremly conservative view of the number given by Canonical ) - Ubuntu users, despite perception and enough converging evidences, are far from being a important enough group to count and to bias the poll ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
