On 4/4/09 1:17 AM, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2009-04-04 01:10:56 AM, Ricky Zhou wrote:Any idea exactly how people are being confused by the text "Intel-compatible PCs?" Should we perhaps make this text larger and more noticable? I don't know about most people, but I would personally be more confused/intimidated if presented with all of those processor names.
True... Increasing the text size would help though.
Actually, I just searched around the docs site a bit, and maybe we should add a link to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-which-arch.html.
+1
This reminded me about another problem related to the i386/x86_64/ppc download confusion: Release confusion. We have also been finding a lot of users downloading the Fedora 11 Beta by accident, not realizing that it is not a production release. I think this may be because it appears first on the "See all torrents" and "See all custom spins" without a warning...This has both the model names and types. It still might be a bit intimidating to many people though, since it attempts to list every single possible case (I still find "Intel-compatible PC" to be a bit easier to understand). If users aren't sure which of i386 or x86_64 to choose, should we make it clearer that i386 will work if they're not sure?
Either way, I think we can solve both problems at once by organizing the download options and presenting a few more (more than just i386, at least) them on the main download page. I've attached a mockup I made that combines the "Get Fedora" and "Show me all downloads in one page" pages.
Thanks, Stewart
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