docs: publish minimum and recommended system requirements - #496
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The download page invited anyone on "Windows 10 & 11" with no hardware qualifier, and nothing else -- README, install docs -- said anything about minimum specs either. That gap is part of why #460 took as long as it did to diagnose: reporters on a decade-old Intel iGPU had no way to know their hardware was the likely cause before hitting a confusing recording-stop failure. Added a system requirements section to website/docs/installation.md (the canonical, full version), a condensed one in README.md linking out to it, and a short note with a link on the Windows card of the download page -- the point where a user on old hardware would otherwise download with no warning at all. The Windows floor (Intel 8th Gen / Ryzen 2000, matching Camtasia's published minimum) is chosen to sit above both hardware profiles #460 reproduced on (Haswell/HD 4600, Skylake/HD 520) with room to spare, without reaching for an unrealistically high bar -- checked against Intel's own driver support tiers first, but those have moved forward enough (legacy status now reaches through 10th-11th Gen) that using them as the line would exclude hardware still in common use. Documented only, not enforced: no startup detection or install blocking, consistent with the project's own read that a hard block isn't worth building without stronger signal on how many users are actually affected. Verified: tsc --noEmit and biome clean, docusaurus build succeeds, and a local render of both the docs and download pages confirms the table, the admonition, and the download-page link to #system-requirements all resolve correctly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds platform system requirements to the README and installation documentation. The download page adds linked Windows-specific guidance through React-rendered platform footnotes. ChangesSystem Requirements
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds useful system-requirements guidance without changing product behavior, but the current wording could confuse users about Windows support levels, Linux prerequisites, and AMD hardware coverage. It is mergeable with explicit follow-up to make these requirements consistent and complete. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@website/docs/installation.md`:
- Line 25: Keep the Windows hardware minimum and recommended labels consistent
across the requirements tables: retain the canonical wording in
website/docs/installation.md at lines 25-25, then update README.md at lines
67-67 to use the same wording and thresholds.
- Line 27: Clarify the Linux dependency wording in website/docs/installation.md
at lines 27-27 and README.md at lines 69-69: state that xdg-desktop-portal is
required for native capture, PipeWire is required for system audio, and browser
capture remains available as the fallback when native capture dependencies are
unavailable. Keep the wording consistent across both files.
In `@website/src/pages/download.tsx`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the Windows download-card warning text near the
system requirements Link to include AMD integrated graphics equivalent to Ryzen
2000 series alongside older-than-approximately-8th-generation Intel graphics,
preserving the existing recording-stop warning and documentation link.
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Three findings, all confirmed against the actual app behavior and against each other: - README.md's condensed Windows bullet buried the recommended tier and read as if "8th Gen / Ryzen 2000" were the recommended spec rather than the minimum, contradicting installation.md's table where 8th Gen is the floor and 12th Gen is recommended. Rewrote it to state both tiers explicitly, matching the canonical table. - The Linux row in both files stated xdg-desktop-portal/PipeWire as an unconditional requirement, but the app's own capture-backend table (recording.md) documents a browser-capture fallback when the native helper is unavailable -- the requirement is native capture and system audio specifically, not "the app running at all." Reworded both and linked to the existing Platform differences section, which already describes the fallback's reduced capabilities. - download.tsx's Windows card warning named only Intel generations, while the fuller note it links to (installation.md) also names the AMD Ryzen 2000 series equivalent -- an AMD user on old hardware got no warning at all before downloading. Added the same AMD clause. Verified: tsc --noEmit clean, docusaurus build succeeds, and a local render of both pages confirms the reworded table cell, the #platform-differences anchor link resolves to a real heading, and the download-page footnote now includes AMD. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The download page invited anyone on "Windows 10 & 11" with no hardware qualifier, and nothing — README, install docs — said anything about minimum specs either. That gap is part of why #460 took as long as it did to diagnose: reporters on a decade-old Intel iGPU had no way to know their hardware was the likely cause before hitting a confusing recording-stop failure.
website/docs/installation.md(Windows/macOS/Linux/RAM, minimum + recommended), with a note pointing affected users at Save Diagnostics.README.md, linking out to the docs page.website/src/pages/download.tsx) — the point where a user on old hardware would otherwise download with zero warning.How the Windows floor was chosen
Landed on Intel 8th Gen / AMD Ryzen 2000 series, matching Camtasia's published minimum (a direct, comparable competitor). Checked against Intel's own driver support tiers first, but that turned out to be a weaker signal than expected — "legacy" status now reaches through 10th and even into 11th-14th Gen, so using it as the line would exclude a large share of hardware still in common, working use. The competitor's real-world floor sits comfortably above both hardware profiles #460 actually reproduced on (Haswell/HD 4600, Skylake/HD 520), so it cleanly excludes known-bad configurations without being unusually restrictive.
Documented only, not enforced — no startup detection, no install blocking. Consistent with the read that a hard block isn't worth building without stronger signal on how many users are actually affected; chasing every old-GPU driver bug individually doesn't scale, but a spec line does.
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tsc --noEmitandbiome checkcleandocusaurus buildsucceeds#system-requirementsall resolve correctly (checked via the app'sread_pageaccessibility tree, not just visually)🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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