Re: Improving the README and new user experience

[Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>]

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I think this would be a great addition to Guix.

I agree that for now Guix' learning curve is pretty steep.  Even when
coming from rather barebone / Do-It-Yourself distributions like Gentoo /
Arch.

I'm not quite sure yet how to improve the experience to new users.  I'd
need to install it several times, with other people and for different
scenarios before I can be a better judge.

I know some work is being done to add an installation helper program to
the install image.

Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> writes:

>>  Also the editors included in the image are crap because they lack two important features: 1) keeping track of the damn paranteses and 2) comment and uncomment region.
>
> Yes. nano is crap. vi has paren matching, but doest keep tack of them . Editing lispy code with tracking of parens is not a pleasure.

Note that Guix also bundles Zile which is a tad better in my opinion.
Emacs would be Awesome but that would make the live image much heavier.

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Pierre Neidhardt

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