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Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by deciduously »

whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

Pipe the script to cat before you pipe it to sh and take a look. It's downloading an executable to ~/.local/bin. If that's not your preference, there are many other options for obtaining the software, via your distribution or manually. I feel the backlash to this pattern is pretty overblown. They're not attempting to hide anything, just make the common case convenient.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by deepsun »

whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

Yep, it's the same as running random code with root permissions.

Same as running random .exe from emails, but even without M$ signature.

Apt packages also have the root access, but official repositories at least have some paper trail and release process.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by drcongo »

lbhdc wrote: post #2

Zed seems like its gotten a lot of buzz on HN, and its great to see new players in the space. For those who have used it, what are some of the killer features?

I use it as my secondary editor (after Sublime) but could easily see myself switching in the not too distant future. It's incredibly fast, possibly even more so than Sublime, and really well designed. While the UI design of an editor is possibly not that important to a lot of people, I find it really matters to me for unknown brain reasons, I get anxious if I ever have to use VS Code as it has zero attention to design details.

I'm really pleased for the Zed team on reaching this milestone. I think the only thing holding me back from it being my daily driver is the built-in Pyright (which I hate) and lack of Ruff support.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

#34

Post by abhinavk »

whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

It's a basic download and extract script. Also creates directories as per XDG spec.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by bscphil »

anotherhue wrote: post #28
bscphil wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already in the Arch Linux repositories, which is pretty cool: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/zed/

Am I missing something? NixOS has had it since April https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/nixos-unstable/pkgs...

Yeah apparently there have been working builds since at least January, that's when the PKGBUILD was created: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ze...

It's been in the main repos since May.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by abhinavk »

deepsun wrote: post #32
whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

Yep, it's the same as running random code with root permissions. Same as running random .exe from emails, but even without M$ signature. Apt packages also have the root access, but official repositories at least have some paper trail and release process.

> Yep, it's the same as running random code with root permissions.

It doesn't require root. You can read it before you run.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by pkage »

AndyKelley wrote: post #22

> To install Zed on most Linux distributions, run the shell script below. This is not an acceptable way to install anything on Linux. If you want to target Linux users you can't distribute with a shell script for installation. I get that the idea is to reduce friction to installation and trying it out, but most Linux users - the ones you want filing bug reports anyway - are ones who will do due diligence and inspect…

This is a fairly common way to install tools on Linux. Tailscale, Homebrew, Pi-hole and many others offer installations in this way.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by hypeatei »

AndyKelley wrote: post #22

> To install Zed on most Linux distributions, run the shell script below. This is not an acceptable way to install anything on Linux. If you want to target Linux users you can't distribute with a shell script for installation. I get that the idea is to reduce friction to installation and trying it out, but most Linux users - the ones you want filing bug reports anyway - are ones who will do due diligence and inspect…

> you can't distribute with a shell script for installation

Why not? It worked for me.

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