This is hilarious to me, because for me it is exactly the other way around.
Just last Friday, some coworker showed me her mermaid diagrams about workflows at work. I am still not comfortable with needing to login to some website to convert some format into a useful format. If I cannot run it locally on my computer it doesn't exist for me. So I tried to install their official looking cli client.
The protocol from my memory roughly looks like this
I npm install something, then it tells me I have to npx (wth is that? I think that is new) install something, which gives me some weird puppeteer permissions issue. If it is permissions I guess I have to be root for the install, I try a bit more and get nowhere the same issues keep happening. Look on their website, see they have a docker as an alternative, this is a pretty newly installed computer so I have to install docker, but which one? There is 3 options and I am not sure. I try to run their docker and mess up because I do not read the documentation correctly and I have to map the directory with my .mdd file with <my-dir>:/data and this was unintuitive to me so I ignored the first part and replaced /data with my path. Again obviously a mistake on my side, but it happens every time and adds to my confusion. I look into the docs again and find my mistake. I finally get a resulting svg from the docker command. Excitement! I open the svg and it lacks all the text and I think there were also errors in the shape. Then I remember obsidian has a mermaid plugin so I thought about trying that, but the obsidian install also fails with some random error about not being able to connect to chrome.
On the other hand whenever I get a cmake project I clone it. I create a folder for the build, cd into it, run cmake <path-to-source-folder> without even looking at the documentation and it either works or I get a pretty clear message what is missing on my OS and with a short web search I can just apt install it and try again (yes this sometimes has multiple rounds) and it works!
Tbh, one of the biggest issues with vim for me is, that all my coworkers do not use it. When I have to explain something to them, they are completely oblivious as to how they navigate vim without the mouse. So enabling mouse is one of the most important things for me
Just last Friday, some coworker showed me her mermaid diagrams about workflows at work. I am still not comfortable with needing to login to some website to convert some format into a useful format. If I cannot run it locally on my computer it doesn't exist for me. So I tried to install their official looking cli client.
The protocol from my memory roughly looks like this I npm install something, then it tells me I have to npx (wth is that? I think that is new) install something, which gives me some weird puppeteer permissions issue. If it is permissions I guess I have to be root for the install, I try a bit more and get nowhere the same issues keep happening. Look on their website, see they have a docker as an alternative, this is a pretty newly installed computer so I have to install docker, but which one? There is 3 options and I am not sure. I try to run their docker and mess up because I do not read the documentation correctly and I have to map the directory with my .mdd file with <my-dir>:/data and this was unintuitive to me so I ignored the first part and replaced /data with my path. Again obviously a mistake on my side, but it happens every time and adds to my confusion. I look into the docs again and find my mistake. I finally get a resulting svg from the docker command. Excitement! I open the svg and it lacks all the text and I think there were also errors in the shape. Then I remember obsidian has a mermaid plugin so I thought about trying that, but the obsidian install also fails with some random error about not being able to connect to chrome.
On the other hand whenever I get a cmake project I clone it. I create a folder for the build, cd into it, run cmake <path-to-source-folder> without even looking at the documentation and it either works or I get a pretty clear message what is missing on my OS and with a short web search I can just apt install it and try again (yes this sometimes has multiple rounds) and it works!