From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:25:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160327232554.GB19614@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zitjg4e9.fsf@gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
> Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> writes:
>
> > On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
> >> something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
>
> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
Speaking for myself, one thing that I like about Guix and GuixSD are
that they make it relatively easy to learn and alter the system, at
least compared to some other GNU / Linux operating systems.
By encouraging users to learn how to alter their system, they will
unwittingly become computer programmers, which I think is beneficial for
software freedom. I'd prefer that to a world where only 1% of people
have the ability to effect change in software (the current situation).
I understand the situation is not a dichotomy; our system should not be
unnecessarily difficult to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-27 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 20:45 [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix Thomas Ingram
2016-03-23 8:51 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-23 11:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-23 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 14:33 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-23 11:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-23 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 22:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-25 13:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 15:48 ` Thomas Ingram
2016-03-26 11:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-27 6:50 ` Thomas Ingram
2016-03-27 18:30 ` myglc2
2016-03-27 20:48 ` Jookia
2016-03-27 22:53 ` myglc2
2016-03-28 16:28 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-04-01 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-27 23:25 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-03-28 6:20 ` Chris Marusich
2016-04-01 12:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19 17:49 ` myglc2
2016-04-01 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:19 ` myglc2
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