No adults in charge.
2022-02-06
I logged into GitHub, created a repository, and when I went to clone it I noticed that there was a new option – GitHub CLI. Interesting.
Navigated the website to download the client:
https://github.com/cli/cli#installation
macOs has three options. Windows has four options. And then the toy OSes.
We start with three, none of them native to any specific distribution. Then we click on …
https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md
… and the complexity becomes mind numbing. No less than 18 different ways.
So that’s 3 * 4 * 18 = 216 way to achieve a singular result: to interact with github.com. The amount of unnecessary complexion and wasted man-hours is staggering. Yes, choice is important and just as important is getting stuff done.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Oh and all this started by me wanting to make some personal notes about FreeBSD administration. Which is of course completely different from any many other Linux distributions
¯\_(ツ)_/¯