I mean, it could most definitely be better, but I really don’t think that it’s worse on Linux. Error handling is one of the hard problems in computer science in general.
And well, at least you do get easy access to logs and error messages on Linux, which makes it infinitely better in many ways, but is also at least partially why this post exists.
On Windows or such, you’d instead put a vague description into a search engine and hope someone had the same symptoms before…
So what we’re saying is that the Linux developer community is generally bad at writing log messages and error descriptions.
I mean, it could most definitely be better, but I really don’t think that it’s worse on Linux. Error handling is one of the hard problems in computer science in general.
And well, at least you do get easy access to logs and error messages on Linux, which makes it infinitely better in many ways, but is also at least partially why this post exists.
On Windows or such, you’d instead put a vague description into a search engine and hope someone had the same symptoms before…
The “fixes” on Windows are always
Step 1) Run antivirus
Step 2) sfc /scannow
Step 3) reinstall Windows
Hey, that’s not true!
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You also run “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth” on step 2.
Yeah, lol. At least the log says something vaguely useful. Instead of some Windows app that tells you
Something went wrong :(and that’s all you get.MSVC begs to differ
At least MSVC has a number for every diagnostic that you can search.
*Microslop