2012/1/28 Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:13:58 +0100 > Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> > wrote: >> In https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1661 there's a >> poll running which lists all kinds of important features of a >> distribution. Unfortunately until today this poll has not received >> enough attention to draw any reasonable and remarkable information >> about the topic. >> >> The poll aims at YOU, the users of Mageia. It wants to find out your >> top 3 MUST HAVEs of a distribution - not single packages and/or >> applications but the 3 features a distribution MUST have to become or >> stay YOUR distribution. > > I think that's too ambiguous. For example "good support" will mean > different things for different people (is it about adding features? > fixing bugs? answering questions? anything else?). "Stable system" is > ambiguous too: does it mean "stable" as in "does not crash", or > "stable" as in "doesn't change"?
"good support" as in "a good and living forum and mailing lists with experienced users and members of the distributor/organisation helping users" - in general what a normal user understands when he reads "the distribution is well supported by ....". "stable" wrt a distribution means to me "stable running, no crashes". Sorry these points were not clear to you. > (and let's not talk about "Modern GUI": for me Gnome 2 is as modern as > Gnome 3 and KDE 4) "modern" in this context means "opposed to the traditional GUIs". > So, I've answered the poll, but my real answer is the following: if I > had to use a distribution with only 3 qualities out of all these, I > would be an unhappy user. Looks like you did not read the initial posting where I explain what I mean with "top requirements". Of course I could have allowed for 5 or 10 votes, but my intention is to find out the most important features a distribution must have, otherwise you would not touch it. As you can see, there are already very different perceptions about what is so important for users. -- wobo
