• Ignotum@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    Every now and then a new hire comes along with a windows pc, every time they decide they want to try to get everything working on windows, after a week they give up.

    On linux it’s one pip install and you’re done

      • Ignotum@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        No clue, all i know is that i never have to do more than that, and noone has managed to get it working on windows 🤷‍♂️

        When i started learning programming, everything was always a pain to set up, needed to install weird IDEs from shady websites and they only worked half the time. Then a friend showed me linux where stuff just worked out of the box, just slap some code in a textfile and compile it, i never looked back (was working in c/c++ but from what i’ve seen it’s not much better for python)

        • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 months ago

          Since some wsl features started coming with windows out of the box python has been pretty trivial to install. It’s a far cry from the conda/cygwin nightmare hell scape it used to be

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 months ago

        I believe, it’s because various Python libraries ship with a pre-compiled C/C++/Rust library. That library needs to be compiled for a specific target, and you often only get Linux x86_64 on Pypi, because that’s what most library devs use themselves.

        Conda tries to solve that by providing a separate repository, where they do have builds for more targets available, but as a result, they have fewer libraries available in that repo. That’s why we needed to install some via Conda and some via Pipenv/Pypi.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      Last time I checked, it was way easier in Windows to have a VM running Linux just for Python, than to get Python to reliably work nativelly in Windows.

    • HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      We have a development system for python on Windows at work, works very well also.

      On linux is one pip install, buy maybe first do a venv^^