• barsoap@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    10 days ago

    Yeah that’s just radarr devs not actually packaging the thing.

    Compare the nixos instructions. Which, mind you, is not a distro for beginners, the faint of heart, or generally people who are neither functional programmers nor devops, but that’s how easy it is when you package shit properly.

    • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      10 days ago

      Yeah that’s just radarr devs not actually packaging the thing.

      It’s not about blame. From a user’s perspective, it doesn’t matter who is to blame. The bottom line is that Linux is harder to use in a lot of scenarios. Torvalds was right: it’s going to take Valve to statically link everything and force developers to use the same libraries. Then it’s trivially easy for devs to maintain a .elf distribution which can be executed across all Valve-compliant Linux distros.

      • tiddy@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        10 days ago

        I think youre misrepresenting what Linux is supposed to be, it runs most Walmart displays, kiosks, medical systems, and servers.

        Its just now branching into a more usable desktop environment, but its going to do this the right way.

        As time as shown is the windows way is incredibly bloated and unstable - I wouldn’t dream of running a critical server off of it, nor even a non-critical one like radarr. Undocumented issues are just part of the game in the windows world.

        Taking the easy route will kinda by definition be easier at first.

        Though ngl I find it incredibly easier to enter

        nix-shell -p radarr
        

        than to navigate to a webpage, download and install an arbitrary executable, give it absolute admin privellages to the ebtirety of my computer to let it ‘do its thing’ for a bit, and be SOL if that doesnt all go perfectly.

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          9 days ago

          That’s not going to work radarr is a daemon. Well at least it’s not going to work as intended, you might be able to start the thing as a user, but it’s likely not what you want to do, you want the thing registered with systemd and start up and shut down with the system. We don’t nix-shell -p sshd either.