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Sadly I can't run it in WSL. thread 'main' panicked at crates/gpui/src/platform/linux/wayland/client.rs:143:51: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: U

Sadly I can't run it in WSL. thread 'main' panicked at crates/gpui/src/platform/linux/wayland/client.rs:143:51: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: UnsupportedVersion note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

shanselman 2y ago
same. :(
daghamm 2y ago
Man, what kinda of QA do they have that they miss something like this? WSL can be considered the second largest Linux "distro". Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen.
- bozey07 2y ago
  That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero. And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.
  - bobbylarrybobby 2y ago
    Code that panics on bad external input (such as the OS) is incredibly sloppy. They already have the Result — they can just bubble it up and present an actual error message (and maybe even ask for diagnostics, etc).
  - daghamm 2y ago
    I disagree. They are on front page of HN with "zed on Linux is here". We got to have some standards, don't you think?
    - School-Cotton 2y ago
      WSL is a pretty niche version of "Linux". I would guess that close to 0% of what makes it to the front page of HN had a QA team that explicitly tested it on WSL.
      - daghamm 2y ago
        Please stop making up facts. 1 of 7 Rust developers use WSL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
        JSR_FDED 2y ago
        I’m pretty sure there’s more than 7 Rust developers.
        usr1106 2y ago
        Maybe the Rust community and Windows users have a smaller intersection than let's say Windows and Ubuntu?
      - zapnuk 2y ago
        niche? WSL (all distros combined) is the 2nd most popular Linux environment. Only behind Ubuntu. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
    - Carrok 2y ago
      One could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”
    - jorams 2y ago
      It's pretty self-evident that Linux support can't be expected to mean Windows support. If something is broken in the Windows simulation of a Linux GUI stack you should be complaining to Microsoft, not to the developers of a program that works fine in a normal environment.
  - the_gipsy 2y ago
    It's a company, not volunteers. They're obviously have some long-term strategy to extract money beyond support (it's an editor). They are doing a lot ok marketing right now (dev-rel). It's very much okay to have high expectation, even if the product costs zero. The user is the product, and so on.
- kelnos 2y ago
  Maybe they didn't do any on Windows, because this is for Linux, not Windows. WSL is still not Linux. They do appear to have Windows build instructions, though[0]? [0] https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows
- crabbone 2y ago
  I've not heard of QA in open-source projects... unless it's something peddled by a big corp (eg. Chrome, Go, VSCode etc.) You are lucky if there's some automated unit testing, but that's as far as these things go. Programmers don't like, don't know and don't want to know how to QA. Also, they generally look at QA with contempt... so, unless forced to, they won't do it.
- oblio 2y ago
  > Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't even run on Windows... https://zed.dev/docs/#download-zed https://zed.dev/docs/#download-zed
  - tills13 2y ago
    You can build it yourself for Windows iirc
    - oblio 2y ago
      True, but the fact that they don't build and package it means I'd be a beta tester, at best. Most likely alpha tester.
abhinavk 2y ago
I have been using it on Windows (native) after building it from source. Just for quick editing. It hasn’t crashed on me yet.

shanselman 2y ago

same. :(

daghamm 2y ago

Man, what kinda of QA do they have that they miss something like this? WSL can be considered the second largest Linux "distro". Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen.

bozey07 2y ago
That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero. And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.
- bobbylarrybobby 2y ago
  Code that panics on bad external input (such as the OS) is incredibly sloppy. They already have the Result — they can just bubble it up and present an actual error message (and maybe even ask for diagnostics, etc).
- daghamm 2y ago
  I disagree. They are on front page of HN with "zed on Linux is here". We got to have some standards, don't you think?
  - School-Cotton 2y ago
    WSL is a pretty niche version of "Linux". I would guess that close to 0% of what makes it to the front page of HN had a QA team that explicitly tested it on WSL.
    - daghamm 2y ago
      Please stop making up facts. 1 of 7 Rust developers use WSL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
      - JSR_FDED 2y ago
        I’m pretty sure there’s more than 7 Rust developers.
      - usr1106 2y ago
        Maybe the Rust community and Windows users have a smaller intersection than let's say Windows and Ubuntu?
    - zapnuk 2y ago
      niche? WSL (all distros combined) is the 2nd most popular Linux environment. Only behind Ubuntu. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
  - Carrok 2y ago
    One could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”
  - jorams 2y ago
    It's pretty self-evident that Linux support can't be expected to mean Windows support. If something is broken in the Windows simulation of a Linux GUI stack you should be complaining to Microsoft, not to the developers of a program that works fine in a normal environment.
- the_gipsy 2y ago
  It's a company, not volunteers. They're obviously have some long-term strategy to extract money beyond support (it's an editor). They are doing a lot ok marketing right now (dev-rel). It's very much okay to have high expectation, even if the product costs zero. The user is the product, and so on.
kelnos 2y ago
Maybe they didn't do any on Windows, because this is for Linux, not Windows. WSL is still not Linux. They do appear to have Windows build instructions, though[0]? [0] https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows
crabbone 2y ago
I've not heard of QA in open-source projects... unless it's something peddled by a big corp (eg. Chrome, Go, VSCode etc.) You are lucky if there's some automated unit testing, but that's as far as these things go. Programmers don't like, don't know and don't want to know how to QA. Also, they generally look at QA with contempt... so, unless forced to, they won't do it.
oblio 2y ago
> Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't even run on Windows... https://zed.dev/docs/#download-zed https://zed.dev/docs/#download-zed
- tills13 2y ago
  You can build it yourself for Windows iirc
  - oblio 2y ago
    True, but the fact that they don't build and package it means I'd be a beta tester, at best. Most likely alpha tester.

abhinavk 2y ago

I have been using it on Windows (native) after building it from source. Just for quick editing. It hasn’t crashed on me yet.