As a software developer, hearing “it works on my machine” from a subset of users is actually helpful information. It means the problem is environmental, or data related, instead of an explicit code issue. It does narrow things down a bit.
The issue arises when some people treat it as a reason to ignore a problem.
Ask them to ship their machine to you.
Ask them to ship their machine to you.
And thus Docker was born!
Edit: Great minds think alike…and so did we! https://mander.xyz/comment/27610194
“well I provide this help on my own time so”
Tells you to Google it again
Works on my Arch install.
It’s okay, so is your machine
Me when I’m helping someone troubleshoot their issue and provided them with useful information, and they say I’m not helping them because I didn’t solve it for them.
Of course, I’m at the point in my career where the people I’m helping are actual IT people, so they shouldn’t really need me to solve it for them no matter how much they hope that would be the result.
When a user comes to me, I understand that the solution is what they need from me. Although I’ve also been accused of not helping by users who thought I was blaming them by asking questions like, “What were you doing when the problem occurred?”
And that is why I chose Debian as my distro. People aren’t developing with obscure small-time distros in mind.
A few days ago I aked a dev at our subcontractor if this proprietary software would in theory run on windows. Not only “yes”, but me running mint on my worklaptop was perfect, because his dev and test environment was debian, so even though the software was built to run on windows, he could easily build a version specifically for me.
”Just use Google. It’s literally the top result!”
Oh boy, you ain’t gonna believe how I found this forum thread.
Don’t worry guys it’s fixed…
What issue are you having?
Probably a skill issue
Fucking noobs. I’m running Solaris on two paper clips and a rubber band.
Solaris still exists?
IT DOES ON MY PAPER CLIPS AND RUBBER BAND!
“Great, so just send me your machine, and we’re good.”
And so Docker was born.
But now I can’t get docker running.
Huh, it works on my machine…
Get podman running and Ill send you an image with my docker.
I mean a good troubleshooter will take that info as ruling out the application as long as the version matches. That means next you compare libraries and permissions.
Not always. Race conditions, for example, can have different behavior on different systems.
Did you tried putting it in the rice on the sun?
Trying to do any type of hardware acceleration on waydroid.
That means that can’t replicate it, you need to give more details or something.
