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People have so many installation problems with Ubuntu and Mint.
What should we do?
Sigh ...
Fact is, it should be very easy. Given we have perfect (?) .debs made available with every release. The wiki is, perhaps, part of the problem. It does really provide far too much information. Hate to say that...
There are two main pages that talk about general installs, one is nominally focused on installing from source, the other from binaries. However, over time, as is the case with all wikis, that distinction has blurred badly. I took a big stick to the Mac install page a few months ago, my model was to try and get what a new users needs, at the top of the page and clearly mark whats below it as legacy / niche / probably not what you want.
My view is same needs to happen to general install. Restore the demarcation between approaches, make it plain to a new reader that the distinction exists. There are, perhaps 4 or 5 ways to install, a one or two sentence description of each about why a user would want one or another.
I have a whole lot of VMs setup at present for some other testing I've been doing, I'll experiment on them and draft something up. But someone will need to update/whatever the Windows section and even the non-debian linux perhaps. And I have not used the on line install/update services either.
I think a platform based split might be a better approach too, we already gave a Mac install page, there is so little in common about how to install on Windows and Linux that, again, its confusing for new users.
It does not take very much to scare a new user into thinking its all too hard or that our documentation is a mess. And a scared user wanders away....