Re: Cryptic website (scares away potential users)

Henrik Rosenø <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:47:43 +0200

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Hi

Thank you for your mail(s)!
My personal conclusion is that since my PC uses Windows 64-bit, I should
download the 'amd64'-version. Which is kind of illogical since I am
quite sure I don't have a CPU from AMD. I DID have an AMD CPU 10 years
ago...

Henrik Rosenø

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Den 28-10-2017 kl. 17:11 skrev Pfannenstein Erik:
> Hi all,
>
> On Samstag, 28. Oktober 2017 15:32:23 CEST SZÉPE Viktor wrote:
>> I think if you are installing an operating system,
>> you may now what "CPU architecture" is.
> not neccessarily. When installing a non-Linux OS, there's no need to know what 
> a CPU architecture is, because they only support one or two of them. The 
> others even use other labels like "32-bit" and "64-bit" instead of "i386" and 
> "amd64" and it usually boils down to how old your computer is (whether it 
> supports AMD64) and how much RAM you want to use (4 GB or more).
>
>> Idézem/Quoting Henrik Rosenø <[email protected]>:
>>> How on Earth am I to know which to choose??
> Study computer science? ;-) Jokes aside, the page is missing a statement like 
> "if in doubt, use i386" or an overview what of these is to be installed on 
> which machine type (32-bit PC → i386, 64-bit PC → amd64, pre-Intel Mac → 
> PowerPC, Nintendo64 → mips and so on).
>
>>> This puts the Debian website in the 100% nerd/geek category where the
>>> rest of us just walk away.
> It certanly is, that paragraph "what is an operating system" on the home page 
> looks like a joke against the rest of the website. So, thank you for your 
> input!
>
> Best Regards,
> Erik

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