Re: [DNG] What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-02 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 06:39:57PM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > Concise is perfect, if comprehensive, within reason. And, perhaps gilded > by a (growing?) collection of links to "user stories"? > > Ralph. > +1 I would just recommend one single thing: KISS. Most users tend to *not*

Re: [DNG] What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Concise is perfect, if comprehensive, within reason. And, perhaps gilded by a (growing?) collection of links to "user stories"? Ralph. chillfan--- via Dng wrote on 02/01/19 16:53: > Historically the community has always responded to things that are minimal > and simple, and not so much to

Re: [DNG] What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-01 Thread chillfan--- via Dng
Historically the community has always responded to things that are minimal and simple, and not so much to things that are bloated or windowsy, or similar. Imho, a reason why a new user might look to Devuan could be because it's less like windows than some of the others, and the community

Re: [DNG] What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 17:34:57 -0600 Michael wrote: > = For an Install Guide I’m against ‘Minimalism.’ My feeling is that > not giving total, and literally an over abundance of information, not > only directly inhibits and stops people from doing the Install, but > also creates vast negative word

[DNG] What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-01 Thread Michael
Hi golinux and everyone else, Okay, I’m breaking this topic off from the ‘Added desktop-live to the install guides’ as it seems we have a much higher, philosophical level decision to make before we can continue with editing the Devuan Install Guide. Which is: == What should an Install Guide