"Default" spin of Fedora

[Nicu Buculei]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Gee, thanks. I'm biased because I think:
> 
> 1) The desktop spin of Fedora is GNOME-based.
> 2) The default desktop of Fedora is GNOME.
> 3) The most popular download of Fedora is the x86 Desktop Spin (which, 
> from #1, happens to be GNOME-based)
> 4) There are far more maintainers of GNOME involved in Fedora than KDE.
> 5) A beginner choosing the Fedora desktop environment with more 
> maintainers and support seems likely to have a better experience than a 
> beginner that chooses the desktop with less maintainers and support.
> 6) Overwhelming new users with multiple permutations of Fedora to 
> download is probably a bad idea from a usability perspective.
> 7) The get Fedora page has traditionally been too complicated because it 
> is so cluttered and the websites team have received many complaints to 
> this effect.

You forgot:
8) The large majority of our existing documentation and manuals [1] 
refers to the GNOME desktop.

[1] - for example http://docs.fedoraproject.org/desktop-user-guide/

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