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Arainach • today at 7:07 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> "Ubuntu themselves tell you not to do it" - you do see it right? Let us see how you forgive Windows for breaking things by ignoring Microsoft's advice and blame them anyway when it breaks.

Not giving a supported upgrade path between version N and N+1 of your operating system is unacceptable, user hostile, and not something a home user could deal with. "Install from scratch, wipe all your files, and set everything up again" is not OK. You can upgrade Windows from 1.0 through 11 without Microsoft saying "nah, this is impossible": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwXX5FQEl88

> No, they don't ask that as the first choice - this is what they say in https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/install-and-setup/:

"the binaries" are a tarball whose instructions refer back to the previous document, whose "Install > Linux" section starts "from source" and says "go obtain Rust > 1.88", so all of the previous problems still apply.

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noisy_boy • today at 7:34 AM

> "the binaries" are a tarball whose instructions refer back to the previous document, whose "Install > Linux" section starts "from source" and says "go obtain Rust > 1.88", so all of the previous problems still apply.

Again with the assertions without checking things. This is the path of "the binaries":

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.39.0

I downloaded the file myself and extracted to see:

    $ > ls -l jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz 
    -rw-r--r--. 1 xxxx xxxx 10373711 Mar xx xx:xx jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
    $ > tar xzvf jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz 
    ./
    ./README.md
    ./LICENSE
    ./jj
    $ > ls -l jj
    -rwxr-xr-x. 1 xxxx xxxx 27122184 Mar  5 02:33 jj
    $ > file jj
    jj: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, BuildID[sha1]=70d48428bc2100069e6813aff97e3dce8d2bb4a0, not stripped
    $ > ./jj version
    jj 0.39.0-d9689cd9b51b4139d2842fcf6c30f65f4eed8cd1
    $ >
It is overconfident low-skill users like you that bring a bad name to Linux.
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