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On Sunday 19 July 2015 02:05:21 Patrice Clement wrote: |
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> Saturday 18 Jul 2015 15:36:01, NP-Hardass wrote : |
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> I fancy your idea a lot. We ought to do it for complete newbies who are new |
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> to Gentoo but would like to give the distribution a shot nonetheless. I |
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> fondly remember my first attempt who took me ages to complete.. Good times. |
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> :) |
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> Following up on NP-Hardass' email in which he's raising good points: |
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> > Who is your target audience? New users? Experienced users? Not so |
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> > much a comment about your installer, but installers in general, I feel |
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> > the handbook is critically important to helping new users to understand |
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> > Gentoo. Whether the handbook would remain a resource that users would |
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> > look at if they had an installer remains to be seen. |
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> IMHO, users should be guided and walked through the installation process. |
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> They should understand what's going on so the Handbook must be equally |
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> important as when a normal chap installs Gentoo without using the |
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> installer. |
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Then the Handbook should be actually correct and useful first: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550646 |
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