[Mageia-discuss] Poll: Which Desktop Environment will you be using on Mageia?

Thu Mar 24 22:43:34 CET 2011

From: Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>
+To: Mageia general discussions <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
+Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:30 PM
+Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Poll: Which Desktop Environment will you be
+using on Mageia?
+
+On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:48, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>
+>
+> Quote: Thomas Lottmann wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 16:29
+>> Le 24/03/2011 16:14, Tux99 a ?crit :
+>> > I would say that if we reach 50-100 votes in the next few days then
+>> > the
+>> > results can be considered meaningful.
+>>
+>> No. Just no.
+>>
+>> Considering Mageia is a GNU/Linux distribution that has various
+>> communities with a wide variety of users with different needs,1 50-00
+>> is
+>> absolutely not representative.
+>
+> It's a poll among Mageia users, and currently I would expect that a good
+> part of people seriously interested in Mageia are at least occasionally
+> reading this list (subscribed or through gmane or through the web forum
+> gateway).
+>
+> Do you have any idea how small the samples are when they do
+> "representative" surveys for TV or newspapers?
+> Usually it's only 1000-2000 people to represent a whole country of 60
+> milion people...
+
+Yes but not random people.
+Knowing what DE is preferred by people reading this list and with
+enough motivation to register to your forum does not mean anything.
+Maybe XFCE users don't like forums or don't like polls.
+Maybe users of one of the DE feel that they have to defend it and the
+10 users of that DE will all vote while users of more common DE don't
+care about it being successful and only 8 out of 100 will vote.
+
+On the contrary, I would think it means everything. The people who read the
+ML and register in the forums should have a louder voice than those that do
+not participate in the linux community. Those of us participating are the
+ones that make linux what it is. If not, then why have the mailing lists and
+forums and chatrooms and newsletters?
+
+
+As a tester I use at least 6 Des but, as my test box is underpowered
+compared to new boxes, I rarely use KDE although I like it, too many
+resources used. Gnome is the preferred desktop, or LXFCE, although I do use
+a lighter DE, especially when a preferred one is too heavy for my rig.
+I'd like to see something like Mandriva with a choice of KDE and Gnome for
+live CDs I suspect that KDE would be picked by newbies as the most
+Windows-like, but it would be nice to have Gnome as well. 
+
+Lesley Lawless
+
+