Binary verification documentation discussion about monero-gui-guide HOT 9 CLOSED

Thanks for the feedback! So it sounds like it's going to be a better idea to break Windows out into it's own guide, maybe a guide for each OS since Mac users will want to do as much as possible through Finder. I can start working on it today (when I have extra time) and hopefully have something to look at later.

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Now that i see the finished guide i agree with you, would be better to put it on the website and link to it from the guide. Let's wait for feedbacks about this matter, if nobody has a strong opinion on this, we can just do it as you suggested.

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<dEBRUYNE> ErCiccione: That needs some improvement for Windows (the guide)
<dEBRUYNE> Windows users are not going to be able to follow that :p
<dEBRUYNE> re: adding it to the website and linking, fine with me
<ErCiccione> dEBRUYNE: i agree, also would be probably better to avoid the terminal on windows. I will report your suggestions

Probably would be better to make a guide based only on GUI tools for windows, like Kleopatra

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Here's what I've been working on for the Windows guide: https://github.com/qubenix/monero-documentation/blob/qubenix-verify1/windows-verification-guide.md.

At first I was going back and forth on how verbose to be, but ultimately I decided to just document every little thing. We can remove some later if it becomes too long/daunting.

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The windows draft is finished, we can do modifications from here. In the final section I have the guide instruct to use the terminal for calculating the sha256 hash. Windows has no built in gui for sha256 hashing, just sha1. So it's either use the command line for one thing or install more software and document that whole process. I'm interested in thoughts.

https://github.com/qubenix/monero-documentation/blob/qubenix-verify1/windows-verification-guide.md

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I like it, very accurate. What do you think about putting an index at the beginning? The document is quite long, That would make it easier to use

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Take a look now. I added a table of contents and cleaned it up a bit.

It would be nice if a Windows user could follow the guide and give feedback, even nicer on Windows 10 since I only have 7 in a VM.

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I cannot test it on win10 but it looks good. You can open a PR to add the guide for the verification on the website, so people can test it directly from there.

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Will do!

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