User talk:Minoto

Hey! Please stop undoing changes to the Tutorials page.

- pitust

If Blanham wants to remove potentially useful information, providing a little more reasoning for it than "Die!" and "x is crappy" would help his case.

- Minoto

Tutorials

Hello, there seems to currently be somewhat of an edit war going on that page. I believe that University of Birmingham tutorial should be removed, due to many known issues. It isn't really "potentially useful", since there's other tutorials listed that cover the same stuff much better. Just look at the PDF file yourself, and you'll probably find a lot of problems from the start. For a more thorough explanation, see this critique of a very similar tutorial based on the tutorial being removed from the list: https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial/issues/269. Some of the problems mentioned there match the ones with this PDF file (and it's explicitly noted there when that is the case). --Lukflug 15:13, 22 October 2023 (CDT)

I lean towards preservation rather than deletion, and at first glance it didn't seem any worse than any other tutorial. But I do seem to be in the wrong here, so I'll apologize and let it go. --Minoto

Members of the unaffiliated OSDev Discord server have embarked on a project to improve and modernize content on the wiki - a welcome endeavor given the last time we did such a thing was circa 2014. Among those improvements is removing links to tutorials that are of poor quality, which is something I very much support. I, too, tend to prefer preservation over deletion, but in this case we are driving beginners towards resources that can be actively harmful and that is something we should try to avoid. I have locked Tutorials for now and will be applying requested edits manually. --klange 18:36, 22 October 2023 (CDT)