Necrosaro and
clarensio, I see a pattern being mentioned,
difficult for beginners. In short, what would you suggest to ease the beginner onboarding, but not to attract total noobs that would not have fun with that much freedom?
Premise
From direct experience I can say that Users participate (initially) in the Forum mainly because they want to "solve" problems relating to Windows and the internet evidently does not provide them with suitable answers. From here the registration, the questions, the answers etc. etc.
The same registered users, in order to sometimes find answers to in-depth "new situations" through "search", find themselves faced with the only possibility of reading various and varied answers (perhaps inserted in multidisciplinary posts) which are not easy to filter, either for temporal order than by obsolescience.
However, Covid19 has taught us that calls, video guides and assistance have completely changed the "professor" ßà "student" interaction scenario, a scenario which, today, is impossible to give up.
Suggestions
- Create a Howto section with 3 subsections:
o Debloat relating to Windows, where any direct and above all indirect "consequences" should be underlined for each "deletion"
o Software related to how to insert software into NTLite à post-setup
o Windows integrations (updates and their consequences, languages, Store apps, etc..
- Create a section with short Video Guides (no more than 60/120 sec.) on how to do certain operations
- Do a sorting job of the thousands of answers given (I am referring to scripts and reg files) and group them by topic, so as to be able to provide a specific (and already "filtered") "place" for consultation.
- Try, as far as possible, to avoid providing answers in "acronyms", which always made me think of a
caste secret (most of the time specific to "language", forgetting that users often use an online translator to be able to be heard) which certainly do not bring Users closer.
- Taking into account the version of NTLite (Free and Subscribers), foresee other scenarios (in addition to the Gamer Preset) perhaps Corporate (with particular regard to Privacy, as in my case for 4 years now) and Personal, possibly commented like: I removed this and so this other one is missing...
Next plan is a small wizard-like popup on the Components page, to ask if you need Windows Update support etc, to auto-enable deeper removals, a guided handling of Servicing Stack compatibility, WinSxS removal, compatibility and templates.
Undoubtedly this prospect is very attractive, especially in the specific "Components", but I have difficulty imagining it without seeing it "in the field" perhaps in a Portable beta.
Or is there something else?
As far as I'm concerned, absolutely not!.
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I tried to be concise but... for any further information I'm here.
. some prefer guides while others prefer to get stuck in.