On 2/4/21 4:15 p.m., Adrien Destugues wrote:
The problem with popups in general is that when they are used too much, peopleWell... I think that an indication explaining what's going on on the first boot should not be so bad and neither does it seem abusive from my PoV. We're talking about a (very cool) idiosyncrasy, after all. It's just one time, isn't it?
end up mentally trained
to dismiss them without reading them. So they should be used only when really
useful.
I think that people would instinctively click on "Try out Haiku" either way, but my concern is whether they are aware as to what they're signing up for.
There is already a Big Wall Of Text No One Reads in that window. Why can't the
explanation simply be
there? Why another popup? Which would make people go "ok, yes, yes, I do want
to try it, why won't you
let me in?"
Yeah, it's admittedly pretty cool, but like, turning the USBs into a default because the partitioning is tough? Pressing a button and getting a working system sounds like peak user friendliness... for 2 days or 2 weeks, until people start getting livid over the fact that they're running out of space after that given time. Definitely not something I'd be exactly fond of as an average user. As a power user, the questions in my head would probably make me lose sleep.
Also, really, the install media is just a normal media. What you really want is
finishing the work on
the partition resizer (which has been sitting in review for 7 years now, with
no one daring to touch it)
so that people can grow the USB partition to the full size of the USB disk.
Then it becomes an usable
Haiku install just like any other. And people have to somehow get used to this. There is
no "installation"
in the usual sense, instead Haiku just replicates itself to more and more disks
and slowly conquers the
world this way. This makes it super easy to make your own personal "distro"
too, isn't that cool?
