Booting in the dark
Kristoffer Ericson
kristoffer.ericson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 12:45:25 EST 2010
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:45:10 +0100
jemarch at gnu.org wrote:
>
> What I would say to this is that you have people who like to hack
> their devices. That's good. However, you and I have to realize
> that MOST people just want to buy and use a device. No hacking, no
> command line funniness, no piddling with conf files.
>
> I don't think the device is ready for that kind of users. It is more
> like a prototyping platform than an end-user gadget. Currently, if
> you are not able to use a terminal and to compile your own
> applications, the Nanonote is completely useless.
Agreed. And even if it were consumer friendly people buying it
are atleast at part doing it for its openformat.
>
> From a development point of view the boot splash screen is a nuisance
> that doesn't allow to see what the boot process is doing. For end
> users? ok, they will love to have a splash screen. But IMHO we should
> get some kind of end-user interface that could be installed in the NN
> before to think about splash screens.
Agreed.
>
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