The average experience of interacting with end users 😭
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Linux.exe
You’ll need to run Linux using Wine
But that’s not an emulator …
They weren’t talking about the translation software…🍷
Linux-image-7.0-amd64-rt.exe
Aka CoLinux.
This is me without all the swearing, lol. I am not a code person but I am into FOSS for ethical and privacy reasons and some github pages can be truly frustrating especially if it’s an app that’s description is exactly what you’re looking for yet it’s out of reach.
The Releases page! Check the releases 😭
If it’s not there and there are build instructions instead…be afraid. Be very afraid.What’s annoying is when the build is not just “git pull then run python main.py”
And it’s like “compile this using this special library no one else uses called Blueberries, then wrong it through Rust v4.8279 (no other version works), then it will output a blob of text to copy the API key from that you put in this other special compiler, and if you mess up any of these steps it is all permanently irreversible. Also the person making the code forgot like 3 random steps in there because it’s second nature, duuuh.”
99% of the time you need to install pip packages and if you do this without venv/uv/conda you’re sort of fucking up your python install for other repos you’re running from source
Ubuntu doesn’t even let you not use a venv without extra effort these days. I kind of appreciate it getting me into better habbits
This is why I gave up and started using docker. I don’t have time to fight with this shit anymore. I resisted for a long time and for the life of my I cannot remember why because it’s been great lol.
Same. Every Python app in its own container. Of course, this raises the skill bar again.
I’m OPs defense, there isn’t always one. I’ve run into some that say you gotta compile it yourself, use docker, or whatever.
Bro just:
curl -s http://raw.githubusercontent.com/Juche1948/NotABackdoor/master/packaging/linux/install.sh | shTrust me bro
Should probably run it with sudo to avoid those annoying permissions errors.
Don‘t forget to disable secure boot! You know, just to be friendly to the new software.
I actuallty recoiled in fear seeing “build instructions.” Didn’t realize the amount of PTSD inflicted upon me via those github pages. 😭
Tbh, even if you have to build there’s GitHub Actions, so I don’t know what could stop anyone.
“INSTALL: build from source” 😬
it’s just as much my fault for needing weird niche programs and not just learning, but christ i swear every time i’ve done it the steps have been completely different hahahah
They managed to somehow open a pull request 😭
I’m 50% sure it’s just a joke, but then reality is way dumber than fiction, so who knows
Github is up again?
LMAO! 🤣
He’s not wrong
Definitely not wrong. As someone who works nowhere near the tech sector who has attempted to dabble in Linux, that initial learning curve is just too high. I don’t have the time to dedicate to that, I have other interests in my life
Not even Linux, the READMEs of a lot of code repositories are sometimes made for people who already know what it is, but seem alien to anyone just trying to understand “does this codebase help with my use-case?”
My experience is the opposite. Open a project’s website, it’s full of marketing talk where I can’t find what the project does in a minute or several minutes. Open Github instead, the readme starts with “this thing is for doing X with Y under Z circumstances”. These days I mostly skip sites and go straight to Github.
Maybe you need the sites instead, idk.
I always go to the primary source as first port of contact, but sometimes it’s not clear what the code does.
For example, I need a JTAG adapter on my ESP32 via USB that I can program my laptop through the device. Does this 10-starred seemingly perfect repo do what I want[1]? https://github.com/emard/esp32s3-jtag
No, the ESP32 is only the JTAG host, you do not actually get access to the pins, so if you want to do custom timings you will not be in luck. This is not clear. I have seen dozens more like this. ↩︎
Ah, well, afaict this is a rather more specialized case. Here, I’m a complete noob because I don’t do electronics, so I have no idea what a JTAG is or how I could use this. An intermediate scenario would be if you found their site in search, and it said “have you ever wished to connect one thing to another thing?” instead of the JTAGs and stuff. This case, when you basically know what it supposedly does but have to pore over documentation or code to figure out details, is a more involved one, and of course, I’ve ran into such stuff aplenty too.
(Out of curiosity, would you be able to beat that code with a C++ stick (or whatever) yourself until it did what you wanted?)
oh okay good to know I’m at least not alone in this experience
Edit: To do it myself, I’d have to implement the JTAG protocol on the GPIO’s directly using arduino or esp libraries, which is not something I would relish doing. Perhaps in MicroPython, but that has limited libraries and it would be a lot of trial and error… and ultimately, I just want to run a JTAG debugger on an ARM core I found, not re-invent a new JTAG debugger
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why are you going to github to compile code if you’re not even comfortable with regular day to day linux use yet? you skipped so many steps, no wonder it’s offputting.
Sir, I’m reacting to a meme, not visiting github.
For what it’s worth, Linux mint was pretty simple to install. I think Linux folks tend to sneer at it because it just works without the crazy headaches and hassles we associate with Linux.
(I finally tried Mint rather than pay for windows 11. And as much as we all hate ai, it was really useful when I had a quick weird question during my install.)
The beauty of it is that once you work out how Linux and self hosting works, you won’t have time for anything else. So the cliff face learning curve is to dissuade the filthy casuals.
He’s absolutely wrong, you don’t show up to a tomato farm and wonder where the pizza is.
If people say “make your own pizza” and then point you towards the tomato farm, then the reaction is understandable
What I don’t get is people will say “pizza is too hard, i’m going back to Lasagne [to get my fix of tomato]” but they don’t make their own Lasagne, they get it delivered (analogy is breaking down at this point).
So, they should just ask their delivery guy (computer installer) to get the sauce and put it on their pizza (computer), or they should buy a pizza (computer with linux on) just like they bought the lasagne (computer with Windows OS on).
As always, it comes down to whether or not they want a margerhita or a mushroom calzone. Most people on this site would happily just get a margerhita and add their own toppings and eat it piece by piece… but there’s a vast sea of people who want to fold it in half and shove it in their mouth whilst enjoying the texture but not experiencing any of the flavour
Github is the kitchen, no one was asking to make a pizza, they just wanted a pizza. I do think github is a bad place for end users, unless the target is other devs.
Except you do expect a tomato farm to have the actual tomatoes, instead of just tomato seeds, bags of dirt and fertilizer, and a note telling you how to use them to grow your own tomatoes.
And I believe this person was being serious
Your link contains a tracker at the end, you’ll want this one.
github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to_github_and_i_have_lots_to_say/
Thank you!
Additionally, if you wish to use a privacy-respecting frontend for linking, go for Redlib.
I knew it sounded familiar. Nice sleuthing
What’s funny is, half the time there IS an exe file, but it’s in the sidebar under builds and not always obvious like a big green “DOWNLOAD HERE” AD.
You could literally put it in the README as an image link though.
Pfff .exe I’ll take my .deb like the basic mint bitch I am.
least annoying arch user
Lmaoooooo
Download the .zip
Extract it.
You will know what to do.
If not, it’s above your pay grade. Move on.
This is how I’ve dealt with it all these years.
