From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: bug#22546: Download-Page is "hiding" what the options actually are Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:03:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20160215220320.GA22965@jasmine> References: <877figuw1y.fsf@gnu.org> <877fi56his.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVRFY-0006Rk-La for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:04:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVRFV-0005tm-EW for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:04:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVRFV-0005tY-7I for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:04:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aVRFR-0004xf-Kx for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:04:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877fi56his.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: myglc2 Cc: 22546@debbugs.gnu.org, mls.robin.vobruba@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:54:35AM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Robin Vobruba 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.