That certainly take a lot of wishful thinking to make a beta distro production and Red Hat to boot! Don't get me wrong, I love RHEL but it is not a consumer appliance. I lived through the same scenario you describe years back trying to get FedoraCore to be my production environment. A coworker, who actually was a Linux kernel developer suggested I try Ubuntu because "it just worked". It has matured a lot since 2007. What I don't understand is the mindset of a Windows consumer. They are used to it not working, they are used to it crashing, they are used to it being slow, they are used to getting viruses. And all of that is OK with them. Does the average Windows consumer need anything beyond access to Facebook, access to Google, and access to hotmail? Notwithstanding the camera issue, that is a pretty low bar to cross.
That certainly take a lot of wishful thinking to make a beta distro production and Red Hat to boot! Don't get me wrong, I love RHEL but it is not a consumer appliance. I lived through the same scenario you describe years back trying to get FedoraCore to be my production environment. A coworker, who actually was a Linux kernel developer suggested I try Ubuntu because "it just worked". It has matured a lot since 2007. What I don't understand is the mindset of a Windows consumer. They are used to it not working, they are used to it crashing, they are used to it being slow, they are used to getting viruses. And all of that is OK with them. Does the average Windows consumer need anything beyond access to Facebook, access to Google, and access to hotmail? Notwithstanding the camera issue, that is a pretty low bar to cross.