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How hard is it to install git and Python 3?
by diogenesjunior 5y ago
How hard is it to install git and Python 3?
- georgyo 5y agoIn some environment, very hard. Especially embedded systems and corporate machines.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoInstalling bash will be just as hard in those situations.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoOk…but bash is waaayy more common. I could see this if you were making an argument about Perl, since it’s probably pretty close to parity with bash in terms of pre-existing in most environments…but python? No way!
- mixmastamyk 5y agoPython is 10x more popular than perl these days. None are installed by default on Windows.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoAh, right, Windows, forgot about that one! So, Windows you’re pretty much always going to have to install something anyway. For almost all of the BSDs, Linux distros, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, countless others, you’re going to have both bash and Perl interpreters included by default. I think installing python is generally quite reasonable! It’s just not as ubiquitous, so if you’re looking for a one-stop interpreted language that most people will neither need to install or worry about the interpreter version, then a baseline old version of bash or Perl is a pretty good bet. Although really awk probably also deserves consideration in this regard, given that you will even have it on embedded Linux where bash and Perl are not. I don’t know enough about awk to comment on its general utility for doing something like neofetch, however.
- hansel_der 5y agoguess the point was that bash is way more common than python?
- mixmastamyk 5y agoIt’s not, especially in the Windows-centric corporate environments mentioned above. 0 not greater than 0.
- hansel_der 5y agoeven in those Windows-centric corporate environments you can push a few buttons to get a Microsoft-built version of bash, even before wsl was a thing, not so for python.
- diogenesjunior 5y agoIf you cannot install git or py3 then installing bash will be just as hard, no?
- ylyn 5y agoBash is a relatively small C program. Python is a huge beast compared to Bash.
- bool3max 5y agoI'm not sure why you would want Neofetch on any embedded system or corporate machine though.
- saagarjha 5y agoWhat, you don’t send your friends screenshots of the beefy machine your work provided you? Or the potato you are running Linux on?