On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:54:35AM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Robin Vobruba <mls.robin.vobr...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > >> Being new to Guix, i went to the Download page: > >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ > >> > >> immediately saw the 3 big options > >> read their title/names > >> was confused what the difference might be between "GuixSD" and "Guix > >> Binary" > >> could not find anything inside these 3 option's boxes that would help me > >> read the text below them > >> read the text above them > >> finally understood that the first option is the OS, and the second is only > >> the packag-manager > > > > I think I’ll have to disagree. :-) > > > > For each option there’s a line right below the title saying what this > > is. I’m no expert in “information architecture” but I’m under the > > impression that there’s little margin for improvement. > > You are too close to Guix to appreciate this user's confusion.
This is an important point. It's hard to go back and re-inhabit the beginner's mind. But new users do skim. We have to decide what level of skimming we are willing to "support". Sometimes I can tell on #guix that users have not even glanced at the manual.
