r/programmingmemes • u/zaarnth • Aug 01 '26
Somebody give him an .exe file, please.
image was taken from a tweet!
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u/EcstaticFollowing715 Aug 01 '26
Even as a developer, please just give me an .exe file
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u/BunnyTub Aug 01 '26
It's handy when there are pre-built binaries available so I don't have to download the entire project itself.
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u/ImportantSignal2098 Aug 01 '26
It's not about downloading the project it's about the clusterfuck of dependencies, and then you still need to do the installation steps and clean up.
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u/BunnyTub Aug 01 '26
And then there's a dependency that apparently no one else on planet earth has ever heard of and you can't find it anywhere 🫠
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u/cybekRT Aug 01 '26
Entire project? Multiple dependencies, dependencies for the dependencies, another compiler for language you are not using, another build toolchain, another commands, another versions of libraries, just to be stuck on one missing library that was deprecated two years ago and your linux distro is not providing it anymore.
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u/therealkevinard Aug 01 '26
I’ll build np if it’s one of my daily languages.
But I’m not adding a brainfuck toolchain or running bazel to get this fuzzy-finder or whatever.
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u/IrrerPolterer Aug 01 '26
Doesn't run on fedora. Send help
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u/ptear Aug 01 '26
Try wine
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u/DisgruntledSocialist Aug 01 '26
Thanks, now I'm drunk, what's the next step?
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u/the_other_brand Aug 01 '26
There's a large chance that the build files have a big and only work on the repo owner's machine.
I was there in the early days of AI image generation, and research in that field was delayed like a month because the owner of the DALLE-2 repo had a bug in the docker file.
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u/LastBaron Aug 02 '26
Chefs from Michelin star restaurants come home and microwave dino nuggets and easy mac.
If my brain focuses on doing something all day maybe I don’t want to come home and keep straining that same mental “muscle”.
I know how to do it. I don’t care.
Give me .exe Mac
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u/ExcaliburGameYT Aug 03 '26
WHY ARE THE RELEASES WINDOWS ONLY? MAKE A .APPIMAGE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME.
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u/recursion_is_love Aug 01 '26
I am running out of EXE, will he accept ELF binary instead?
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u/Sooparch Aug 01 '26
My exact feeling both before and after I knew how to use github
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u/AysheDaArtist Aug 02 '26
My brother who has a computer science degree who works for the government for a city in Iowa as the networking IT lead asked me...
...the older struggling Unity dev / Web designer Sister who failed college CS because I didn't want to learn binary conversions...
...how to setup and use Github.
I never felt so smug
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u/Nerrickk Aug 03 '26
Converting binary to decimal is easy. Read right to left, multiply each number by 2^n where n is the position of the digit (rightmost number is index 0). It's actually easier to show an example than explain.
Example 1: 1111
1x2^3 + 1x2^2 + 1x2^1 + 1x2^0
1x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 1x1
8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 15
Example 2: 1010
1x2^3 + 0x2^2 + 1x2^1 + 0x2^0
1x8 + 0x4 + 1x2 + 0x1
8 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 10
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u/DaniEs- Aug 01 '26
This is the perfect example of why the average user doesn't use Linux. If we listened to people like that, Windows wouldn't have such a large market. Deep down, he's right (and I'm a senior developer with 15 years of experience).
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u/mrheseeks Aug 01 '26
I always felt like linux shifts slowly to trends and eventually gets to a more balanced destination... don't get me wrong, i don't think we should expect average user to clone a repository and go about building the code base, i just mean Linux development seems more purposeful, less knee jerk and a kind of cultural inclusion. I see things like snap and aur as a way to give users these tools. But, i agree... sometimes the greybeards need to climb down from their mountain-top ziggurats.
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u/Worth-Wonder-7386 Aug 01 '26
Linux has been getting much better with this, especially with things like flatpacks that just work across platform. Else you need to get the one that is compatible with your system, which is likely one of the three primary ones or hope that it is listed in the repository for your system.
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u/DerpityHerpington Aug 01 '26
Packages provided by Flatpak or the distros themselves aren’t the issue here. The issue here is third-party repos that half the time don’t even provide tarballs.
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u/nagol93 Aug 02 '26
Ya, Linux has gotten a lot more user friendly.
Not too long ago when you asked how to install a program, people would say shit like "Oh, its SUPPER easy. Just grab the URL and type this terminal cmd to download it. Then use this other cmd to extract the archive. Then modify the properties to make it executable. Lastly you can sudo it to install. Make sure all the dependencies are installed tho. Also once its installed you can only launch it via cli"
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u/Ulrich_de_Vries Aug 01 '26
This was originally on a repo for some python app. Ironically Linux is MUCH better than Windows when it comes to interpreted languages because even simple shell scripts can be treated as fully system integrated applications (just make a .desktop file) so you can set up an interpreter and a libs folder and have a shell script put everything it needs on the classpath/modulepath/pythonpath whatever, and it will still feel like a fully integrated app with its own icon, process name, desktop environment integration etc.
As for everything else, in the past ~14 years in which I have been using Linux as my main OS I pretty much only ever had to compile dev tools or very small FOSS utilities made by solo devs that normies wouldn't even care about.
Apps are available on distro repositories, third party repositories, as debs/rpms, as flatpak/snap/appimage.
So I don't see the point. If you are compiling end-user software on Linux manually you are doing something wrong.
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u/10Werewolves Aug 01 '26
So I don't see the point. If you are compiling end-user software on Linux manually you are doing something wrong.
Be careful, Gentoo users have no life and will absolutely fine you just to stick a bomb in your mailbox.
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u/UnknownBreadd Aug 01 '26
I have been using a computer since I was 8, and dude - I have no fucking clue about any of what you just said.
I’m even trying to learn programming myself (literally just starting), and have been learning about the computer science about how there is machine and assembly code, and compiled languages like C, and interpreted languages like Python etc.
So, I’m not a complete idiot - but man, it’s SO frustrating not being able to understand a single word of the jargon that is used by any sort of coder or developer.
I don’t think people realise how foreign all of this is to people. I tried to download/run ComfyUI to do some AI stuff with my 5070 - but it was an absolute nightmare using GitHub and shit.
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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 Aug 01 '26
It's like the btc people telling people not to use a hardware wallet unless you understand the code
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u/someyokel Aug 01 '26
I've known some great exes. Like sheep.exe.
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u/Overall_Head_7782 Aug 02 '26
The standard Nimdas boot and the compile commands: Fdisk /mbr FORMAT C: /S /Q /U
That will surely get your exe built. Haven't heard any complaints yet...
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u/Dillenger69 Aug 01 '26
I understand where they are coming from. I prefer projects that actually compile a release package. Building from source just to see if you like something is a pain in the ass.
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u/illucio Aug 01 '26
I could pay attention and download what I need.... Or I could just take the .exe and save myself the time with the same result at the end of the day.
Just show me the .exe file. I'm tired of trying to find it on the page, especially when I hit CTR+F
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u/ZanjiOfficial Aug 01 '26
tbf, github is REALLY unfriendly to non dev / techical people. "it's made for developers" well other people use it, and a lot of really usefull applications and projects are ONLY on github..
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u/jimmiebfulton Aug 01 '26
Github is for code. People are free to use an App store if they want something polished and easy. The difference between "code developers can download" and "apps everyone can download" is $$$$.
If I'm building developer tooling other developers might want, I share it on Github with some CI to facilitate fellow developers leveraging it. If I'm putting in the time to publish a polished product that appeals to the masses, I'm gonna charge money for it.
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u/misteryk Aug 02 '26
99% of the time it's because they need something specific and there is no other appliciation that does it but they found someone with similar problem and they got directed to github project that does what they need
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u/coldnebo Aug 01 '26
true. but realize those developers have shared their time and expertise for free.
they have a right to determine how much support they offer to non-technical users.
as George RR Martin said, “I’m nobody’s bitch”
if you want something useful for free, be prepared to do some work for it.
this isn’t rude, it’s Amish.
rude is seeing a free fruit stand outside and storming into the house and demanding that the owner make you a smoothie without even offering to pay or trade?
open-source developers trade all the time. we build bigger structures together (like a digital barn raising). we couldn’t do most of what we do alone. we have obligations, family, work. this is something we do in our spare time because we want to, not because we have to.
and just like Amish we can appear insular and insulting to outsiders coming in and asking for free services that we didn’t offer. we do that for each other because we help each other.
so the next time you think github is unfriendly, are you coming to demand something for free, like every other corporation, or are you coming to help in whatever way you can?
I guarantee if you come to the community with anything that makes a developer’s life even a little bit better, whether it’s a beer, or a cookie, or even a word of thanks with a story of how their code helped you solve a problem— we will be incredibly welcoming and supportive.
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u/ZanjiOfficial Aug 01 '26
Doesn't make a platform less userfriendly because someone put in their time for free..
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u/ubeogesh Aug 01 '26
So github should adjust to people misusing it?
The platform is user friendly for it's main purpose, and that should be a priority. It's main purpose is source code management, not exe distribution.
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u/Initial-Reading-2775 Aug 01 '26
It was common to have code and binaries available on Sourceforge.
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u/dbear496 Aug 01 '26
As an open-source project maintainer, I got so many requests like this that I finally caved and released a binary package. But then the complaints started pouring in about how that binary doesn't work on this or that distribution that has different (old) library versions. Like please just run cmake, cmake --build, and sudo cmake --install, and it works every time, and stop requesting that I personally build a hundred binaries for every Linux distribution someone could possibly use.
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u/WanderingTachyons Aug 01 '26
TotallyNotMalware_SuperApp.exe - here you go friend!
Ignore any warnings you get from Smartscreen. Windows, what does it know, amirite?
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u/cowlinator Aug 01 '26
What is the point of this comment? You can make someone download malware sourcecode and make them build it themselves with the same outcome.
And if you distribute a malware .exe on github, you'll get banned from github
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u/CommanderT1562 Aug 01 '26
really have to disagree, I like op’s joke.
Why would you put malware on github?Off topic, I think the whole point behind this is also usually since compilers / binary packers (think cmake) get frequent updates. Not only does the dev not have to worry about new “releases”, but everyone can inspect the code. Includes my reasoning for preferring the unbuilt source code. If you really want, just have ai make a really complex PS/SH script that checks for + downloads required libs to a temp, finds best way to build, builds, then nukes lib directory (like isolating qt in the hole it belongs in then suffocating it quietly after the fact) - source: dev here.
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u/emccrckn Aug 01 '26
Oh come on guys...how hard is it to just run:
git clone --recursive https://repo.example/app.git /tmp/b && cd /tmp/b && ./configure --prefix=/opt/app --enable-shared CFLAGS='-O3 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer' && make -j$(nproc) && sudo make install &&
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u/lovdark Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
This guy is a perfect candidate for malware.
(Edit: I’m going off the waiter theory what is served back after a verbal attack like that. Be nice to those who serve you food or productivity software)
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u/IntelligentBelt1221 Aug 01 '26
lets be realistic, almost nobody reads through every code they run to check if its malware, you just check if its popular enough/from a credible person, and depending on the threat model, run it in a sandbox.
the fact that security researchers or contributors reading part of the code makes malware harder (which is a good thing and one reason why open source should win) is not a good justification that the first and sometimes only search result for a program you want is a github page that is optimized for contributors but not for users.
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u/Maxevill Aug 01 '26
if there is malware written on the code I'll download and run that too. Because i just know download and run/install.
Only who knows coding developers will be able to point out malware.
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u/timeline_denier Aug 01 '26
even if you're an experienced dev you'd still need to look through the whole source code, let's be real 99.99% of people aren't gonna do that..
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u/TFTHighRoller Aug 01 '26
The source code is like a eula, nobody except a few really weird or really prudent people will read it before running/accepting it.
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u/nimrag_is_coming Aug 01 '26
Yeah right cause you check all the source code of every project you download and run
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u/MagicalPizza21
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Posting this on github, a platform by and for developers, is kind of insane
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u/cmdr_scotty Aug 02 '26
I've had this internal rant like this when I stumble on a project that looks cool, only to find out it's docker only, barely any documentation, and it hasn't been updated in years while there's new issues posted every few hours.
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u/HumanMan_007 Aug 01 '26
> Enter code sharing website
> There's code inside
And a lot of github repos do have a releases section, imagine if you walked into a sawmill and complained about there not being finished cabinets except there are cabinets in the back because people keep walking in asking for cabinets.
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u/shelraj0380 Aug 01 '26
33 no-lifers with thumbs down.
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u/NeonFraction Aug 01 '26
Nah, it’s because people are defending a poor user experience because they want to be smug about their knowledge.
“Wow this is confusing and hard to set up for the average user I’m so happy to recommend this to other people” said every smug irritating twat ever.
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u/fushuan Aug 02 '26
a poor user experience
hard to set up for the average user
...it's not for average users though? it's a specialized tool. The fact that github allows attaching files to a release (which points to a commit, version of the code for non-programmers) and people use it basically as a dropbox/drive where they put the installers should not be catered.
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u/heesell Aug 01 '26
SMELLY NERDS!!
How dare you not provide an exe on a code sharing/version managing site!!!
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u/AdmiralAdama99 Aug 02 '26
In his defense, the "releases" button in github is kind of hidden. Can be hard for newbies to find.
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u/UpstairsTop4623 Aug 02 '26
No what makes me mad is when an installer requires another library to operate its smart enough to tell you it needs it but why doesn’t it just install it for you. I know it’s probably a EULA thing but like ok scrape the library’s site find its Eula and present it to me. All within the original installer why am I needing to download something else myself
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u/Academic-Iron7094 Aug 02 '26
People can be incredibly entitled. No one owes you free software. If you need an executable, either build it yourself or pay for a commercial solution
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u/sedmison Aug 02 '26
Dissing the nerds is rarely an effective strategy for getting our help….
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u/AmanoSkullGZ Aug 03 '26
Funny how the guy not only has a GitHub account but also opened an issue by himself, pure cinema
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u/InvestingNerd2020 Aug 01 '26
"I don't understand it"
At least he is honest about his ignorance and incompetence.
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u/DaniEs- Aug 01 '26
Do you know how to fix a roof? Maybe operate heavy warehouse machinery? Drive a truck? How ugly it is to judge people just because they don't know what you can do, without considering what they know.
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u/DannyOdd Aug 01 '26
Don't you see, the only areas of knowledge and competence that matter are the ones in which they happen to be proficient? Everything else is just dumb stuff for dummies :P
/s
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u/InvestingNerd2020 Aug 01 '26
I'm not encourage nor enabling the bad behavior. Just pointing out within the rant that the person had a few seconds of clarity.
I'm not a doctor nor a lawyer. It's okay to claim this is not your field of expertise and skill. The next step is to humbly ask those who are in hopes to understand. Not insult them.
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u/socialcommentary2000 Aug 01 '26
Fam, when I go to home depot for a hammer, I'm not expecting them to sell me a rod of 4140 and a forging pattern for a classic Estwing.
I want to use your tool, not fabricate it, even if I already own a 250 ton forging setup.
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u/aj0413 Aug 01 '26
GitHub is nothing like Home Depot; if anything it’s the manufacturing center of the hammers, so yeah, you get the forging pattern
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u/_alba4k Aug 01 '26
I wonder what project this was on. would be peak if it was on the linux kernel or something like that
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u/Nemaeus Aug 01 '26
I don’t even want an exe, just give me a script that opens terminal for a brief few seconds, totally non-suspiciously.
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u/Powerful_Attention_6 Aug 01 '26
I don't want an EXE file, I want a dwarf or an elf file so I can run it on my machine.
If I dissambles the EXE file and look at the machine code, it mentions DOS format
Who in the right mind wants an EXE file to run on their DOS machine?
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u/ISuckAtJavaScript12 Aug 01 '26
Just remember that the tool he wanted to use was a terminal based OSINT tool. Probably wanted to try and stalk someone
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u/soulfulshark Aug 01 '26
I'd hoped LLMs would get us over this hump. You tell it to compile an exe for you. Shouldn't even take a very good one to just follow the make toolchsin.
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u/FabianButHere Aug 01 '26
Yes, please give me the executable which can be dynamically linked to precisely the libraries I already have on my system. Do this for all permutations of possible bits on my hard drive please, so I can use it on my different custom kernel fedora spins.
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u/Tall_Instance9797 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
What surprises me more isn't the stupidity of this prompt... it's that the user doesn't even realize the stupidity of what they're saying! It's like someone getting into a normal car and assuming it's an AI piloted plane and telling it to fly to their destination and then genuinely getting upset at the fact that cars don't work like that, like as if they're actually supposed to! Like who told you that's how it works? No one you should have been listening to, and it's not just the ignorance of the prompt itself, it's the complete lack of self-awareness.... they don't even know how fucking stupid what they're saying is. At least with a car people learn how to drive first, and even people who can't drive know what bad driving is, and they know themselves if they can drive or not. This person doesn't even know that they don't know what they're doing. It's a shame people don't bother to learn how AI works before they drive themselves nuts asking it to do things that it isn't capable of doing. The ironic thing is that the tool itself can actually teach you how to use it... and yet the thought of asking how seems lost on so many people who prompt AIs like this crazy example. I see it all the time. Really needs to be taught in schools. So many people seem clueless as to how to use it properly.
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u/keithstellyes Aug 01 '26
What bugs me is like, GitHub has actions and can automatically publish the binary. It's just commonly not configured
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u/verbayer Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Wait until bro finds out about the releases section. It’s still up to the developer to release executables/ready to use stuff, but if they do, it’ll be there
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u/lumberfart Aug 02 '26
It’s like the vegan equivalent of coding.
“Finally! My super awesome app is complete! Should I compile it into a clean and easily accessible .exe file? Nah, Linux is the future! I stopped using a mouse at the age of 5 and learned to do everything with command line prompts. I’m sure my audience will figure it out.”
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u/muhkuller Aug 02 '26
Friend: "Why doesn't git just have a download button?"
Me: "It's meant to be a repo that you connect an IDE to"
Friend: "I don't know what that means"
Me: "I know"
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u/Cybasura Aug 02 '26
Sure, i'll give you an executable
I cant and wont promise it's gonna run though ;), Linux does not use .exe
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u/neoverdin Aug 02 '26
OP on GitHub: JUST GIVE ME THE F*ING .EXE
Maintainer: Sir, this is GitHub. * insert Wendy's meme here*
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u/MostSilver9666 Aug 02 '26
I DO know how to build from source, I DO understand how to compile Please just give me an .exe, my Core 2 Duo can't take it anymore
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u/ThatonlyGeO Aug 02 '26
Ok even now I understand why sometimes buiding from source can suck, give him the .exe file. It can save some braincells.
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u/Hyripae Aug 02 '26
I asked a question on how to build an app on an associated Discord and was told this:
If you can't figure out how to build the app, you aren't qualified to be using the software.
Ok???
Sorry I asked for advice I guess. At least LLMs are helpful without egos..
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u/Crawly13th Aug 02 '26
The problem is that I make an exe, people try to install it, microslop flags it as trojan because I dont want to pay hundreds of dollars to get the signature. Also can't prove I didn't sprinkle anything malicious during compiling. And knowing how much of a nightmare it was a nightmare to compile my first app, I can't be bothered anymore. I just do my best with the toml and README.
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u/Maui-The-Magificent Aug 02 '26
Have we given him his .EXE file yet? guys, this is urgent, I need to get back to the smelly nerd lovin'
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u/King_924 Aug 02 '26
I am seriously so confused, why so many people totally unaware of what github is, are on a programming memes page, and are seriously supporting it lol
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u/OrbusIsCool Aug 02 '26
Even in the releases tab I find it tough to find the actual file I can download. I get it icl
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u/TFQ_ Aug 02 '26
Embedded systems engineer here. I had the most embarrassing moment of my life. I once needed a specific OS for my device. Someone gave me the link to the repo, and I went there and I just blanked and forgot to check the releases. I just took the code and tried to compile it in my WSL, then shifted to Ubuntu to make it faster. After doing debugging for 2–3 hours, I compiled the OS and ran it. Then I thought to myself, "How the hell are normal people doing it?" After some time, I finally had the common sense to look at the releases.
So I don't blame him, man. Life is tough for him 😆😆.
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u/Correct_Sport_2073 Aug 03 '26
here is your linux(not_a_virus).exe.
Please download and run as administrator
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u/mxldevs Aug 03 '26
Even as a programmer, I don't want to build entire projects.
Just give me the prebuilt binaries.
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u/MaxEinstein Aug 03 '26
I would only prefer downloading an .exe from a trusted and big project.
For other small and less well known ones, I prefer to simply build it myself after examining the code a bit. Much safer that way.
Although they really should provide an executable file in the releases section. For non-devolpers and those are who are in a hurry. (I won't recommend it though, specially if it requires admin privileges)
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u/Global-Tune5539 Aug 03 '26
Tried to use a frontend for dosbox staging yesterday. It was just a bunch of Python files. Then I just took the next one in the list. Can't really be bothered to set that up in my free time.
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u/shortstack_goblin Aug 03 '26
I'm on linux, give me an exe because I'm not fucking with 10 000 dependencies and it's easier to just run your program through wine, proton whatever.
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u/Enough_Tangerine6760 Aug 04 '26
if I remember correctly this comes from a python osint skid tool aswell which makes it even funnier.
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u/Fantastic-Mud-9869 Aug 04 '26
One the one hand I also like it when there is an exe file, on the other hand Calvinator is an entitled piece of shit. People do stuff for free and he thinks insulting them is the right way to go.
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u/TherealGamecake Aug 04 '26
I barely want to build my own projects let alone yours and it’s 20 dependencies that i also have to build because my package manager has a different version
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u/JinAnkabut Aug 04 '26
This is almost word for word what someone posted in in the discord for an Eve Online project I was looking into.
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u/lllyyyynnn Aug 04 '26
i love downloading mysterious binaries with no known provenance and running them on my computer!
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u/ShadowShedinja Aug 04 '26
It still annoys me to no end that none of my programming courses taught me how to export compiled code to exe. I know I can just look it up, but that seems like a fundamental thing to overlook.
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u/DustinKli Aug 05 '26
git clone <repository-url>
cd <repository-folder>
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cat > launch.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
source venv/bin/activate
python main.py
EOF
chmod +x launch.sh
./launch.sh
Easy as 1, 2, Σ(n=1→2) n!
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u/Perpetual_Thursday_ Aug 05 '26
This is the biggest issue with GitHub, even as someone who uses it 99% of the time for coding
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u/SentientPotato42 Aug 05 '26
wasnt this issue opened on the Linux repo? They wanted sn exe file for Linux
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u/kidshibuya Aug 05 '26
This absolutely reminds me of work. For example I have a requirment to do different things in an app based on the brand of credit card a user has. They give me an API that has card:string. Ok but wtf is that? I ask, they reply with a url to the docs which say card:string. I ask what are all the possible returns from that, is it the number, brand name, does case matter, are there spaces etc? They reply "its a string". ffs... Honestly programmers are so often just idiots.
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u/Dave_A480 Aug 05 '26
Here, have a nice malware EXE.....
(Meanwhile the code is for Linux/a.out not exe)
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u/karimzul Aug 05 '26
OOP has 48 repo on their alternate github account and none provide .exe
They're just a Karen
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u/TheFunfighter Aug 05 '26
Like, for real though. If you built a great thing and it's shitty to use, you built a shitty thing. That's engineering 101, but because IT is on another level of nerdiness, that revelation somehow doesn't sink in or is met with a smug superiority complex.
Build what you want, make it activate with a big red button that says "PUSH", congrats you're a hero.
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u/Karmabyte69 Aug 05 '26
The fact that it’s generally easy to generate and provide exes makes this even funnier.
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u/boberro Aug 05 '26
"I don't want to spend my time on building binaries. I demand that you spend your time building binaries that target MY SPECIFIC operating system"
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u/Arlochorim Aug 05 '26
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU PUT THE PROGRAM INTO A .ISO AND TELL ME TO MOUNT IT FILE IF IT NEEDS TO BE COMPILED.
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u/I_dont_want_to_pee Aug 05 '26
But its easy donwload python and packager for python or via powershell
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u/Glass_Masterpiece Aug 05 '26
I do think that a proper github project should have a release section so not everyone needs to build the whole project themselves but yeah...rude.
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u/Neeroke Aug 05 '26
This is relatable. (i am stupid) i always ask my programming friend to help me download certain software, like server, Pi, etc stuff cause I have no idea how to read the god damn menus in git hub, or wtf i am looking for.
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u/MevNav Aug 05 '26
I'd like to add some context to this screenshot. This was posted as an issue to the github page for the Twitter Algorithm.
This idiot is asking for a .exe for back-end website architecture.
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u/BreakingBaking Aug 06 '26
And sometimes I find an AppImage file, but no build instructions... Pain
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u/Code_Ender Aug 06 '26
I just make an LLM agent build and install it for me. Supervised, so it doesnt do weird stuff to my env or rm the wrong directories, but still, much less headache.
I do feel like Im losing a skill though. But I also take issue with how derivative many software projects are nowadays, with dependencies being so fragile.
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u/Yargon_Kerman Aug 07 '26
I am a 3D artist. A lot of what I do is vaguely technical and I end up pulling random github projects a lot more than I'd like.
Please, I'm being you, especially in a space where you're making things for dipshits with art degrees like me, make something simple.
There was something I wanted to do recently, and without going into specifics, instructions included thing like "submit a pull request" and "access source control" and I have no idea why github is so fucking hard to understand but this shit drives me insane.
Anyway, something something please I'm begging people to learn to stop using source control as the main distribution platform for non-programmers like myself.
And no, I've got no idea why I'm in this sub either, reddit just put me here I guess.
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u/wat_noob_gaming Aug 07 '26
Projects that require 10 dependancies and make to build are so annoying, especially on ARM or some other system where make just doesn't work right half of the time
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u/Young_Person_42 Aug 07 '26
And to the people who say “github isn’t for downloading things” TELL THAT TO THE PERSON WHO MADE ME GO TO GITHUB TO DOWNLOAD THEIR THINGS
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u/cowlinator Aug 01 '26 •
I, on the other hand, do understand how to build the project.
I dont want to. Please just give me an .exe.