2011/3/24 Tux99 <[email protected]>: > > > Quote: Oliver Burger wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 15:54 > >> So why take the time and effort to create and manage such a poll? > > The time and effort to set up the poll was next to zero, if you have ever > set up a poll in any forum you would know how easy it is.
Even the 20 seconds I'd need to create a poll in phpbb3 would be too much time wasted. > So worst case too few people vote and the results will be useless, best > case enough people vote to give a representative overview of user > preferences. Hmm, what do you mean by "representative"? For those who are looking into your forum? may be. For Mageia users? Probably not. For Linux users? Definitely not. > Personally I think it's interesting to see how popular the less popular DEs > are among Mageia users, it's obvious that KDE4 will get the most votes, but > it's the votes for the other DEs that are more interesting. That's no news. > If the poll gets enough votes to be representative then results could for > example be used to decide which alternative DEs should get a (unofficial) > Live CD release (apart from KDE4 and Gnome). The criteria to release a special LiveCD edition with one DE is: do we have a group who are motivated to do that. Nothing more. This is a free system and everybody can spend his time on anything he likes, so, if you think it's worth the time to have the zillionth desktop poll, good. :) But don't expect it to be worth anything and don't expect it to influence anything. -- wobo
