| (this comment has nothing to do with this distro, just the general state of software installation and the transmission of such instructions on the internet.) I'm not sure anybody else gets you,
but I'm totally with changing the copy-paste way of transmitting instructions.
And I don't mean a gui and a whole lot of clicking. System Requirements (hw/sw, pre-reqs) / applicability tests (will this work for me?),
tailoring instructions to my configuration(s) (automatically),
recommended and trusted instructions (using PKI) with data and statistics to back up the confidence I should have,
time estimates and ENV-impact statement,
testing and follow up discussion,
and transactional rollback of any step to previous state of the system. See instructions. Install instructions. Should be easy as a click. Something breaks, undo should be just as easy. Copy and pasting instructions is like typing in BASIC from magazine listings decades ago.
"Clipboard is the new fax machine" At the other extreme are "apps" which are nice when they don't break, but opaque and not developer-friendly. Willing to discuss elsewhere or learning about existing efforts which try to address these problems. |