It is not a Bitcoin clone, and the wallet is only officially available via command line – no graphical user interface is available for this piece of technology yet.
lol, why do they have to mention it doesn't have a GUI? How come this is always so important.
Shouldn't the privacy features be more important in a article such as this one?
Its comical with the GUI wallet. That's all anyone ever picks on.
I was a computer expert a few years back and honestly had problems installing the wallet(s) on my Mac. I did finally get it installed but didn't have faith in the installation due to so many problems I experienced. (I got the blockchain downloaded no problem.) I was only able to run the wallet by (excuse my lack of terms here) double clicking an exe file, not from an actual installation. (Something about my Mac environment stopped me from being able to do a true install and it was in the instructions but I couldn't get past it.) So, I didn't want to chance using it. I moved half my XMR's from Poloniex to Mintpal and the latter are history (and it was a nice chunk for me). Rather, those
were history as I got them
returned a few weeks back, as did others. Anyway, Had there been an online wallet or even a wallet less problematic on my Mac, I wouldn't have moved any to Mintpal - but my bad as I didn't research the place. It was literally like within a week or two of the move!
I've mined BTC, run a full node, worked in IT, etc. so I really should have figured out the wallet problem within a few hours, didn't, so gave up. I went beyond a typical user install imo.
Suffice to say, there is a whole world of users out there who want a GUI (nothing command line except for higher functionality) due to ease of use. Knowing I was a computer expert and should have figured it out I can understand how lack of a GUI is really holding people back (at least if they experienced problems on install like me, Windows I hadn't heard of being problematic.)
IAS
I can confirm this. Idk what a computer expert is, but I'm more capable than 98% of people atleast. Back when i had to compile it myself that was a huge pain. I'm so glad i could just grab some binaries this time. It was easier with binaries but still a pain. It needed so many dependencies. I wasnt about to sit there and install them all manually one at a time so i went looking for a solution and learned about aptitude. It was a great find, im glad to know about aptitude now. But yea i mean that was a process and involved some research and some time, i had to search around to find something like aptitude then i had to spend a little bit of time with it learning how it worked. Its a very real barrier that not everyone can overcome.
I was a database administrator and systems administrator on Unix and Linux, with a teeny bit of Windows when I had no choice.
I knew Perl and could write some basic scripts. I knew about dependencies (which was what I was talking about before - it did me in with the Monero wallet install, so many probs for me.)
Yeah, so I was (key word) extremely knowledgeable when it came to computer related stuff. No longer an expert but I still dabble here and there with Linux and so when I failed at the
wallet install that was both a hit to my ego and I was pissed! LOL
And as your suffice to say, comment said, I really do think a GUI is needed. That will open us to so many more people. Luckily the game is early in the going so we are probably not really too bad time wise.
In a sense we need to think along the lines of what BTC'ers have been saying for a while now - "
We need that killer App." and to a point, a nice wallet (on smart phones especially) is going to be that Killer App imo.