On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:36:57PM +0000, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: [cut]
> > On the subject of people that get thrown into the console for the first > time when something breaks, there's a lot of room to improve here. What I'd > like to see is something reasonably consistent with the curses installer > that provides a limited degree of handholding. Rather than throw people > into this automatically, it should be advertised in the default MOTD, and > it should have fallback to a simple set of prompts in case someone's using > a broken terminal. The audiences for this are both complete newcomers, who > know absolutely nothing beyond what little the /etc/issue and /etc/motd are > telling them, as well as the experienced sysadmin who finds themselves on a > system where basic facilities like networking are down, and needs to > restore those easily. [cut] >..... > internet. > - Easy access to appropriate new-user IRC channels. > - A split screen environment, where documentation can be easily browsed on > half the screen, and a terminal is available on the other half. I don't think that "easy" ncurses tool are of any real use here. The main reason is that if a user has used only a GUI in his/her life, chances are high that he/she will feel anyway a deep disgust for ncurses utils, even if it is just to save their distro from a reinstall. I can't imagine a newbie lost in a console environment being able to put himself on IRC swiftly using irssi. It's not a matter of being elitarian, but let's face it: console interfaces require a considerable additional effort that most users are not willing to sustain anyway. Even if dealing with those difficulties would save them from reinstalling. Nowadays, most users would probably go for a reinstall at the first issue anyway: Internet is cheap and fast, SSDs are much faster than onl HDs, and installers are easy-peasy-eye-candy. After all, most users use computers as they use tv, or washing machines, or freezers. Why on Earth should I be able to recover my broken washing machine? HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
