Installation instructions

[Zdenek Wagner]

pá 7. 6. 2024 v 14:28 odesílatel Joseph Wright <joseph at texdev.net> napsal:

> On 07/06/2024 13:23, Markus Kohm via tex-live wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2024, 13:31:22 MESZ schrieb David Carlisle:
> >> I've only ever used a command line installer, multiple screenshots of
> >> graphical installers seems to make it look far more complicated than it
> is,
> >> but perhaps that's just me.
> >
> > Indeed. IMHO installing TeX Live on a fresh new Windows computer in a
> home
> > netzwork using the online installer is very uncomplicated. And indeed do
> not
> > really need a lot of screenshots of the graphical installer.
> >
> > If a typical user first tries to absolutely harden his Windows computer
> against
> > all kinds of attacks and only then installs TeX Live, this looks quite
> > different, but is not really caused by the online installer.
> >
> > The greatest difficulties are to be expected if a simple user tries to
> install
> > on his domain-managed company computer in the administered company
> network.
> > But again this cannot be blamed on the online installer.
> >
> > But all such problems are very individual. So I've stopped to tell
> people my
> > own installation story. Instead I tell them, that they should do the
> default
> > installation and read all messages carefully. If they have a problem,
> they
> > should make screenshots or if possible copy messages from the terminal
> window
> > and ask their individual questions.
> >
> > Just my 2 cent.
> >
> > Markus
>
> Agreed. For many people using Overleaf or similar is ;enough' as it is,
> and the GUI works very smoothly both on Windows and macOS (where MacTeX
> really doesn't need any major instructions at all); I've not tried on
> Linux.
>
> Joseph
>
> I do not use GUI installer on Linux because the text version is simple. I
cannot use a mouse, I have to select by keyboard but it is so simple that
GUI is not needed.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
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