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That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero. And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did
by bozey07 2y ago
That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero.
And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.
- daghamm 2y agoI disagree. They are on front page of HN with "zed on Linux is here". We got to have some standards, don't you think?
- School-Cotton 2y agoWSL is a pretty niche version of "Linux". I would guess that close to 0% of what makes it to the front page of HN had a QA team that explicitly tested it on WSL.
- daghamm 2y agoPlease stop making up facts. 1 of 7 Rust developers use WSL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
- zapnuk 2y agoniche? WSL (all distros combined) is the 2nd most popular Linux environment. Only behind Ubuntu. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
- Carrok 2y agoOne could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”
- jorams 2y agoIt's pretty self-evident that Linux support can't be expected to mean Windows support. If something is broken in the Windows simulation of a Linux GUI stack you should be complaining to Microsoft, not to the developers of a program that works fine in a normal environment.
- the_gipsy 2y agoIt's a company, not volunteers. They're obviously have some long-term strategy to extract money beyond support (it's an editor). They are doing a lot ok marketing right now (dev-rel). It's very much okay to have high expectation, even if the product costs zero. The user is the product, and so on.
- bobbylarrybobby 2y agoCode that panics on bad external input (such as the OS) is incredibly sloppy. They already have the Result — they can just bubble it up and present an actual error message (and maybe even ask for diagnostics, etc).