| 29 Feb 2024 |
 garbas | I'll be online later today (after 21:00) to help out fixing things. Feel free to assign me some tickets :) | 16:43:39 |
| garbas | thilobillerbeck (avocadoom): ^^^ | 16:43:49 |
 avocadoom | In reply to @garbas:matrix.org
I'll be online later today (after 21:00) to help out fixing things. Feel free to assign me some tickets :) Great, im on orchestra rehersal and will be home at 23:00. Feel free to take any issue you want :) | 19:16:28 |
| 1 Mar 2024 |
 djacu | The website has certainly come a long way in 10 years :) | 02:21:05 |
| djacu | 
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|  tomberek set a profile picture. | 15:21:47 |
| tomberek | Next up. Banners? Anyone have any or know of a good source? | 22:18:12 |
| 2 Mar 2024 |
|  @stablejoy:matrix.org joined the room. | 11:30:09 |
| @stablejoy:matrix.org set a profile picture. | 11:44:18 |
 @janik0:matrix.org | Hey, currently nixos.org doesn't really show a lot about nixos as distribution and the new page doesn't either https://main--nixos-homepage.netlify.app/ so I wanted to chime in a bit:
If NixOS was more show cased on nixos.org I would have probably started using it ~1.5 years earlier. I remember taking a glance at nixos.org once and not finding the examples interesting, but I got hooked after someone telling me about how they fiddled around with their config and getting kernel panics and just being able to boot a old generation and everything working again. | 20:32:35 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | there is a lot more cool and awesome things about the distribution we could showcase, like being easily able to reuse and share configs, very comfortable server deployments, using conditions in your config. | 20:44:12 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | oh btw the download page is also a bit meh https://nixos.org/download like on a 1920x1080 panel it doesn't show the nixos download without scrolling and I have seen multiple people getting confused by it the first they tried to install nixos. | 20:45:48 |
 @qyliss:fairydust.space | that confuses me every time | 20:47:56 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | * Hey, currently nixos.org doesn't really show a lot about nixos as distribution and the new page doesn't either https://main--nixos-homepage.netlify.app/ so I wanted to chime in a bit:
If NixOS was more show cased on nixos.org I would have probably started using it ~1.5 years earlier. I remember taking a glance at nixos.org once and not finding the examples interesting, but I got hooked after someone told me about how they fiddled around with their config and getting kernel panics and just being able to boot a old generation and everything working again. | 20:50:11 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | * Hey, currently nixos.org doesn't really show a lot about nixos as distribution and the new page doesn't either https://main--nixos-homepage.netlify.app/ so I wanted to chime in a bit:
If NixOS was more show cased on nixos.org I would have probably started using it ~1.5 years earlier. I remember taking a glance at nixos.org once and not finding the examples interesting, but I got hooked after someone told me about how they fiddled around with their config and then getting kernel panics. and just being able to boot a old generation and everything working again. | 20:50:36 |
| 3 Mar 2024 |
 hexa | ncfavier: https://social.coop/@bitprophet/112029070841995311 | 01:19:44 |
| avocadoom | Thanks Janik (they/them) for your suggestion, thats a good point | 01:21:20 |
| avocadoom | IWhile you're mentioning it, I recently had the idea to give the user some kind of wizard to choose what they want. Like:
- Do you want nix for your existing system or as an OS?
- do you want to run it bare metal, VMed or in the cloud?
- Which desktop do you prefer...
Of course this would require a fallback, which could maybe realized by some subpage with content as seen now.
What do you (the whole channel) think?
| 01:24:57 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | In reply to @avocadoom:avocadoom.de
IWhile you're mentioning it, I recently had the idea to give the user some kind of wizard to choose what they want. Like:
- Do you want nix for your existing system or as an OS?
- do you want to run it bare metal, VMed or in the cloud?
- Which desktop do you prefer...
Of course this would require a fallback, which could maybe realized by some subpage with content as seen now.
What do you (the whole channel) think?
that's only the download page right? If sounds good as long as it's realizable without client side javascript but with stable urls so you can link to some specific section. | 01:27:26 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | In reply to @avocadoom:avocadoom.de
IWhile you're mentioning it, I recently had the idea to give the user some kind of wizard to choose what they want. Like:
- Do you want nix for your existing system or as an OS?
- do you want to run it bare metal, VMed or in the cloud?
- Which desktop do you prefer...
Of course this would require a fallback, which could maybe realized by some subpage with content as seen now.
What do you (the whole channel) think?
* that's only the download page right? If so, sounds good as long as it's realizable without client side javascript but with stable urls so you can link to some specific section. | 01:28:23 |
| avocadoom | Omitting client side JS in favot of full page reloads for everyone would result in a pretty clumsy UX, since the page would always have to reload for an input, but for sure this can be some kind of fallback mode | 01:29:31 |
| avocadoom | and yeah, of course the "results" would also be stored in their specific and distinguishable URLS | 01:30:02 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | That's still not really addressing the thing about not finding much about nixos as distribution on nixos.org, what is the general sentiment in the marketing team concerning that topic? | 01:41:01 |
| avocadoom | This was not meant as a solution for your first point :D | 01:42:06 |
| avocadoom | I don't know, we didn't talk about that as this is or was not on the table for the website at the moment. But as soon as we are done with switching stacks I think we can start talking about that | 01:43:05 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | In reply to @avocadoom:avocadoom.de
I don't know, we didn't talk about that as this is or was not on the table for the website at the moment. But as soon as we are done with switching stacks I think we can start talking about that That's fair, but I'm still curious if there were discussions about it in the past/if there is any prior history to the topic 🙈 | 01:47:16 |
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| avocadoom | I'm loosing track on issues, can someone please review my homepage PRs so I can close related issues? That would be great :) | 15:43:10 |
| tomberek | I took a look and closed a few. 1265 will take more time. | 17:58:09 |
| garbas | tomberek: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/1222#issuecomment-1975326678 | 21:09:39 |
