Group talk: Giving Guide Suggestions
The > symbol is ambiguous
The > symbol can be read as an arrow since it is in the reading direction. I would read this:
Android => iPhone
as the next step after Android is iPhone.
To minimize that ambiguity maybe we should flip it around and do < instead. So iPhone < Android.
--Tange 18:21, 16 December 2012 (EST)
- Agree with the problem. Flipping it around is better, but doesn't completely solve it either... Ciaran 08:39, 20 December 2012 (EST)
Suggestion: remove software
How can I give someone software in a way that won't be more inconvenient than if they just got it for them self? Sounds like an awful (thoughtless) gift idea.
If someone gave me the source or a binary of Gimp, I wouldn't install it. I'd use my package manager to get a version of Gimp that has been tested to work with my system.
The recommendations in that section should be moved to a page for how to migrate from proprietary software to free software. Ciaran 08:49, 20 December 2012 (EST)
PSP (w/Free custom firmware)
I noticed on the page at present that under portable gaming there is a question as to what device should be recommended over the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). Contrary to suggesting another device, I for one would actually encourage the purchasing of a PSP and then recommending how a user can then make it free using the great GPL'd homebrew firmware ProCFW (https://code.google.com/p/procfw/).
As this process is actually quite simple, but on the surface slightly complex, i'd then recommend linking to the excellent guide here published by Wololo.net (http://wololo.net/cfw4dummies/) who are at the forefront of homebrew news. In addition, i'd also perhaps recommend (from the same site) their excellent community-produced game Wagic the Homebrew (http://wololo.net/download/).
Aside from that, using Free custom firmware like ProCFW allows for all sorts of emulators (almost all Free Software - check http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk/ for some) and Free homebrew software such as Links2, PSP IRC, PSPMagic (EtchASketch clone), PSPwrite, Bookr, RenPSP, LuaPlayer, etc.
I really think it'd be useful to point this out as an alternative if nothing else is recommended for portable gaming. -- Frostfog 09:49, 22 December 2012 (PST)
- Thanks for the info, Frostfog. I've started a page for this sort of info here:
- If you know more about this project, or other projects, it would be great if you could add more info and links to that page. Ciaran 00:58, 22 January 2013 (EST)
