[SoaS] links from homepage to Downloads page

[Sean DALY]

For the past couple of years, our homepage has linked the Sugar on a
Stick (SoaS) badge to the SoaS page [1] and the "download" menu item
and "Try it with a child today" link to the Downloads page [2].

The downloads page rightly in my view orients visitors by platform,
but the two largest market share desktop/laptop OSes (Windows & MacOS,
96% or so of market) only give instructions for Sugar on a Stick and
the "Do you use a virtual machine?" link misses the excellent VMs
available (in particular the VMs of... SoaS!).

I think teachers will self-classify by OS and virtually none of them
will self-classify as virtual machine users.

Teachers will also expect pancake button 1-click installers (this was
confirmed by Sloan Marketlab study), problematic with SoaS due to
necessary USB stick manipulation and still a bit hairy on a Mac.

I think Windows section and Mac section should both propose choice of
SoaS and using VirtualBox with a SoaS VM, explaining benefits of each
method in layman's terms.

VMs are far less disruptive for trying Sugar, as a teacher can
download to hard disk, install and run, keeping usual apps going
(mail, browser, word processing) while experiencing Sugar.

The downside is of course massive files to download, but that could be
mitigated with torrents and/or mirrors.

Comment please before we get into wiki editing of this crucial page thanks

Sean


[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar