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Windows versions to support? #26

Closed rpottsoh closed 6 years ago

rpottsoh commented 6 years ago

So far a start has been made that is exclusive to Windows 10 users. Do we need or want walk through's for earlier versions of Windows? I haven't decided yet, but I may try my hand at a Windows 7 walk through. I don't have access to Windows 8.

kytrinyx commented 6 years ago

I would like to do only Windows 10, as I think this is now the most common.

We have a line in there about other versions, and to contact the volunteers, which will give us more information about whether or not we need to add other instructions.

rpottsoh commented 6 years ago

Sounds good.

Not really on the topic of this issue, but since I have your attention... Would it be a good idea to have the walk through, optionally,route the user to the Installer if they were not successful in the manual installation. In its present state, the walk through kind of leaves the user in the lurch if they are not successful. Yes, it says there are volunteers around that can help, but nothing is said about how best to reach out to those people; how to ask for help. I am thinking that a person using the walk through is somewhat savvy but is likely still new to Exercism so may not know to go about asking for help after stumbling in the walk through.

If this should be in a separate issue I'd be happy to open one. This issue is probably OK to close.

kytrinyx commented 6 years ago

Would it be a good idea to have the walk through, optionally,route the user to the Installer if they were not successful in the manual installation.

That would be a brilliant idea. A separate path for "I don't have Windows 10" but before "talk to a volunteer" to use the installer would be a huge win, I think!

rpottsoh commented 6 years ago

Sounds good @kytrinyx. I'll spend some time on this.

kytrinyx commented 6 years ago

I'm going to go ahead and close this as solved.