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I wish they had an installer and a bundle with JDK that did everything automatically, as Sun used to provide back in the day. I mean, sure, it isn't much of a d
by badsectoracula 8y ago
I wish they had an installer and a bundle with JDK that did everything automatically, as Sun used to provide back in the day. I mean, sure, it isn't much of a deal to go to netbeans.org, go to apache.netbeans.org, download netbeans, uncompress it somewhere, go in the bin folder, doubleclick on the netbeans64.exe, get a weird message about jdk 1.8 not found, go to adoptopenjdk.org, wtf, google, go to adoptopenjdk.net, answer one million questions so they give you one link instead of providing a page of all versions available, download the linked zip file, uncompress it somewhere, go to system settings->advanced->whatever->path->dialog->whatever to edit the jdk to path, go back to wherever you had netbeans64, double click it, get same weird message about jdk 1.8 not found (why doesn't it ask me??), go back to the netbeans download page to see if there is any info anywhere, go to netbeans github site, look for the source code of the netbeans launcher, read the code to see that the launcher uses a configuration file under ..\etc, edit the configuration file to make it point to the JDK location, try again running netbeans64.exe, finally have it working, right-drag-drop the exe to the desktop, rename the shortcut to Netbeans and finally wonder where the world went wrong.
Sure, not much of a deal, but i don't know, it looks kinda sloppy to me and i'd like a proper installer.
(ps. just because this is kinda sorta negative, doesn't mean i dislike netbeans, it is just that i don't have anything positive to say that isn't already said... well, ok, here is a bit of positiveness: i don't write java often anymore, but when i do, i prefer netbeans because i like how simple it feels)