On 11/05/19 2:05 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! nux@li.nux.ro:
I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a year or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent downloading stuff from it.
It's a bit anecdotal as perhaps not all are actual desktop users and some users were using multiple IPs (dhcp), but it shows there are quite a few users out there running CentOS for desktop purposes.
There are desktop focused distros out there who do not even reach this kind of numbers. How many active users do you think Mageia or Linux Mint have?
We are moving our workstations from OSX to EL8 right now. We think its time to couple our activities more tight to the new technologies that come with EL8 ... otherwise the user keeps brain-splitted :-)
Don't get me wrong. At work we are running 99% of all desktop activity on RHEL/CentOS for much more than a decade.
That's why I'm wondering why such a Firefox breakage has such a low priority for upstream. Our users are used to Firefox with several add-ons like uBlock and others. Suddenly having to run it without them is quite a mess and asks for an immediate fix.
I have used CentOS 6 and 7 as workstation core along with EPEL, elrepo and nux ever since v6 was released. It has just got better and better. Then we have the likes of gnome and firefox, seeming to think of others rather than the hard core users that have consistently worked to streamline work flows in the real paying world. They are making huge changes, motivated by .... and in the process sacrificing work flow and efficiency as they pursue other goals.
That's why we're using XFCE for more than a decade. That may sound a bit boring but it helps to stay focused on the real work.
Regards, Simon