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I don't understand the fascination with these "make a list" style setup instructions, as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated. We have AMI,

by tacos 10y ago

I don't understand the fascination with these "make a list" style setup instructions, as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated. We have AMI, we have docker, we have (gasp) shell scripts. It's 2016, Why am I cutting and pasting between a web page and a console? To my knowledge the only thing that does something like this well is oh-my-zsh. And look at the success they've had! So either do it right, or don't do it at all.

danso 10y ago
> I don't understand the fascination with these "make a list" style setup instructions... > ...as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated. Your second sentiment is the reason why I appreciate the "make a list"-style tutorials. When something inevitably goes out of date, I can at least see some of the narrative and reasoning for each step, instead of trying to debug someone's shell script that they've left to obsolescence. Even better is when I have 3 such tutorial-lists to compare, making it easier to see which steps are integral and which steps were simply author-specific conventions.