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To call this an interface for “ non-technical” users is an utter delusion.

• Ericson2314 5y ago
  It should be said it is for technical but non-programmer users, "power users". I don't think it is more scary than dconf-editor or regedit :D. After this foundation is laid, there's no reason we can't add more "tutorial/wizard" flows, just as Microsoft kept revamping the Windows "control panel" but kept the old version. What we can't do is simply drop config options like Apple. The Nix ecosystem aspires to be all mechanism minimal policy. If upstream exposes the knob, we ought to somehow expose it, at least via a free-form textual "extraConfig".
  • lappa 5y ago
    >After this foundation is laid, there's no reason we can't add more "tutorial/wizard" flows, just as Microsoft kept revamping the Windows "control panel" but kept the old version. Well put, this is exactly the goal. https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/77 https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/77
• teitoklien 5y ago
  People who will even approach tools like this , are never as “non-technical” as youre referring to. Dev has made a great implementation for people who fear the terminal. Thanks to this now i can bring more of my friends to try tools like these. I dont think the creator is delusional at all, The non-technical in this market is just different.