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@skylar@wolfgirl.bar @EvilCorp1988@poa.st @alex@gleasonator.com recently I had an issue where, when compiling CUDA, no matter what I did, would fail with "error 1". After a week of tearing my hair out with zero useful info online, I tracked it down to a registry key for command prompt, which was causing a batch script that nvcc invokes to fail. Dealing with that was only tolerable because I was trying to compile my own software, projects which expect other developers, let alone plain nobodies to compile stuff and potentially deal with that sort of thing are insufferable.

Those types often don't even care to respond to requests for help properly. Just this other day I was trying to update some software I run on my server and noticed that despite the heavily and unnecessarily customized linux environment, the developers were always hostile in their responses to user questions. Particularly if users made the 'error' of expecting typical linux-isms to be available.