Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

[Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>]

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On Friday, October 16, 2020 10:36 AM, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 12:28, Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>
> > > https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/c0dfb36a-a84b-4363-8b1b-17aeadd4aaaf
> >
> > Thanks! I think 7 minutes is too long; IMO we should aim for ~1mn–1.5mn
> > at most as is currently the case. Also full screen, large enough fonts,
> > no “guix pull” warnings, ‘--max-jobs=1’ on the daemon side to reduce
> > verbosity. Slick and to-the-point! :-)
>
> The video is really long mainly because each command takes literally
> ages. Well the "XDG mine" step to be precise; maybe Joshua you have
> something misconfigured.

If the slowness at the end can be avoided by configuring something, I'd like to know, because that slowness is always the case in my experience. For example, installing the program Joshua mentioned earlier, wf-recorder, which is quite small, took ~7 minutes in my computer (Intel® Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 4, 4 GiB RAM, 1 TB HDD).

Also, in my case, it is common for guix commands to take long seconds to display any feedback when called. Actually, the current video shows guix working at a speed I've never experienced myself.

So I wonder if the video should include these inconveniences, which people will find once they install the software. I wouldn't like the video or anything in the website to feel like false, mainstream advertising.