Hi Pierre, On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
> - Computers, smartphones, etc. are around us. > - They are used in research, banking, etc. > - They can be used to store our private data. > - They can be abused (e.g. maybe heard about Snowden). > > Carl Dong's video is the closest to what I'm looking for. > > I'd prefer a text format though. Besides, if we don't want to exhaust > the patience of our users before pronouncing the word "Guix", I > think it's important to make it a very short read, say 5 minutes, or > some 1000 words. Ahaha! Good luck! :-) My experience: I explained to friends or family who fit your list above: + trusting trust: with 5 minutes, it is ok using the yogourt=yogourt+milk analogy; + asymmetric cypher, cross-compilation, torrent, etc.: with 5 mins, it is ~okish too - Guix: I have always failed; even with 15min. Even failed with scientific colleagues who uses classical linux distro. For example, I did an attempt here [1]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00326.html The issue is because each time my "audience" is too far from the problems Guix fix. Other said, how do you explain why profiles, manifests, roll-back, declarative stuff, etc. are so cool when the "audience" only knows Word, Excel, Browser and some apps on smartphones? I do not want to be pessimistic but it is hard to introduce Guix for general public. > (Carl Dong's video is 16 minute long, and Guix is only introduced at the > end.) > > As Ricardo said, I believe such a general presentation would be very > welcome on Guix' front page. > > Anyone interested in writing such a text? IMHO, a good start is to write down typical use cases/scenarii that Guix solves. What do you think? All the best, simon