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Similarly, the releases pages aren effectively user hostile. Use case: I'm on Windows 11 and I want to install Rancher Desktop
Note that Windows isn't on the list at all:
p
Oh, wow, didn't realize GitHub cut stuff off.
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Ayup
p
For any website changes, please file issues / PRs on https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/docs.rancherdesktop.io/ — I don't touch that part much anyways 🙂
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Anyway, if you want to fix it for me, i'm happy not to do the work. Basically, a section at the top of the release text that's a row of links to the most common artifacts.
I understand that the signatures are "important to someone", but, frankly, as a "windows user", I do not care 🙂
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I've updated the release pages (for 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 only)
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It always bothered me that we list all the 
*.exe
and 
*.zip
files there, that are only used by the auto-update mechanism. We really only need 4 links for most users.
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Your change looks perfect. Do you need to do something so it's used going forward?
f
Right now release notes are copied from the previous release and then updated, so it should stay in there 🙂 Yes, it is not automated, but most of the content is hand-written anyways.
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One day it will be written by Copilot. Maybe on demand, at the time you read it 😄
I've been informed that the link to the Linux ZIP file is almost never what you actually want, so I've replaced it with a link to the docs about installing on Linux...
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Seems reasonable
f
Preferred install is via rpm or deb packages, alternative is AppImage, which has some drawbacks
q
linux is its own special mess 🙂
f
People make fun of DLL hell, but Windows is the absolute best platform for backwards compatibility
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They're only recently starting to drop support for 16bit...
f
Can you file a bug or PR?
q
maybe, but probably not before next week
i kinda need to run away
f
Run, Josh, run! 😄
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the short of it is, there should at least be quick links to the install via rpm / install via deb
scrolling through all the prereqs is torture when coming from the previous page
i'm a prolific bug filer, but people miss that it's actually very expensive for me to file bugs!
f
If you have a previous install, won't your package manager update it automatically?
I'll create a quick bug and hope that docs will fix it 🙂
q
You could include the incoming link so the person working on it has context for the reader
But, it's good enough
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