[YLUG] Fedora usability [was Re: clone fedora 10]

[Alex Howells]

> I guess that most of us who use Linux end up becoming very familiar
> with the necessary tweaks for our favourite distribution to work as we
> want it to, and it is often the case that switching to a different
> distro needs a learning curve before we understand the little (!)
> tricks needed to get things going as we want. So for most people the
> "other" distros, whatever they happen to be, are perceived as lesser
> distros than the one we are familiar with. If you only ever talk to
> Ubuntu users and use the same distro yourself your world revolves
> around Ubuntu knowledge. In my case it is Fedora - and there will no
> doubt be the Gentoo enthusiasts on this forum too?

Guilty as charged, I was involved with Gentoo Linux for 3-4 years. Hah :)

I'd say I'm perfectly capable with Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD and
comfortable on Solaris/CentOS for the most part. This doesn't change
the fact that I consider Fedora to be [mostly] a developer-oriented
distribution which is unsuitable for end-user desktops or [production]
servers.

Oh and before we get off on the "Oh you haven't used it for years"
retort, I used it last week (F10) and it's still got sloooooow package
management and some annoyances it's had since FC3 -- best left to fans
of the bleeding edge or Red Hat developers IMO.