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   Daniel Durrans (danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 16:00:06 JST Daniel Durrans

   • Neil Brown

   @neil in some respects I think it is harder now to adopt alternatives because there are so many. Even if you pick a particular distro for an OS, documentation or forum posts from 5+ years ago are no longer accurate (except for when they are). It’s really quite difficult not to end up down the wrong rabbit hole.

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     Daniel Durrans (danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 16:00:05 JST Daniel Durrans

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     • Neil Brown

     @neil I think one of my biggest bugbears is the move from a "stand alone" bit of software to software that is comprised of a multitude of other bits of software and frameworks. You used to install (build, get) a single binary executable and that was it. Now you have to get three package managers, a specific version of ruby, pull down several projects from github, cross your fingers, and hope it works.

     Then there is Docker.

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     Daniel Durrans (danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 16:07:43 JST Daniel Durrans

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     • Neil Brown

     @neil I think this was one of the things that put me off running my own Mastodon instance. It isn't just a single binary. It is a huge number of steps just to install. It feels like you are setting up a development environment on your machine.

     It's no wonder people virtualise and containerise to bring some order to the chaos.