>
> Anyways, if you have the chance, I would encourage you to run a booth
> somewhere and help
> random people use Sage on Windows all day for a few days.
Yeah, it's always amazing to me (not just with Windows, though more so
there) how much stuff that becomes automatic to even a moderately
experienced Sage user really does need to be explained and motivated with
brand-new users - who are often new even to computational software if they
didn't have cause to use it in grad school or wherever. I wish we had
time/$ for some real narrated end user studies ("now try to compute 2+2;
tell me what you are doing as you do it") like one of our CS profs always
is touting to our students, I think a lot of interesting stuff would appear.
> Or to try
> to create some sort
> of support community around sage on windows (e.g., a big link right
> when it starts up
> to a discourse forum or something). I would guess that right now the
> canonical support
> forum for sage on windows might be
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sage-windows,
> but it has only two posts in the last two years?
>
I think that was really a forum for *development* of Sage on Windows, but
now that the Cygwin + installer solution has been the primary focus, and
within the "normal" Sage development flow, it has become moribund. We do
see a number of Windows questions on ask.sagemath, so I suppose that is a
potential place to look for common issues.
How hard would it be to add some sort of alert window at startup on Windows
to "here is a good place to ask for help if you are a new user"? I don't
know anything about the installer so maybe it would be hard; on OS X
sometimes there is a canonical readme in the dmg and/or a "help" menu but
this is fairly different from that so it might be hard, or hard to put it
in an easily accessible place for newbies.
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