Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix

[Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

myglc2 writes:

> Jookia <166291@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
>>> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
>>
>> I think what Ludovic's getting at is that we'd rather have people know their
>> tools and experiment, much like Emacs.
>
> OK. But there is a huge community of free software users that suffer
> daily from issues that are beautifully addressed by Guix.  Once Guix is
> installed and they learn how to select and install software they may not
> need, or want, to know anything else.
>
> Don't we want these people to use Guix?

I don't think it has to be one or the other.

I've been greatly inspired by how Blender has turned artists into
programmers.  You have all sorts of buttons and an interface that's
optimized around artists, but if you hover over a button, the tooltip
displays not only a textual description, but also what the python
equivalent would be.  Thus you have an interface that exposes the
underlying machinery to users who want to use it.

 - Chris

I guess the downside to the Blender comparison is I'm not sure it's the
easiest software to learn, but I think that's a domain issue (3d
graphics, no matter what software you use, are a tough subject to
learn).