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Great article. I chuckled quite a bit. This reminds me of my attempts to check out Cardano. There was no working Linux client. (I checked again today: Still no Linux client. The latest release of the software appears to be from September 2017).

I then tried to build from source. I'm doing some Node development so I have Node v8.x installed (the current LTS version). Turns out the wallet requires Node v6.

At that point I gave up. I also read that Cardano has some great concepts but right now it's still in its first, centralized phase.

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You make it sound like switching Node versions on Linux is a hassle. Allow me to introduce you to nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm

I do love nvm, but I'm a little surprised that the source requires an older version of node. I wonder if it doesn't actually require it, but the package.json has the engines prop pinned to v6 anyways.

There is a working Linux client. Note that the "wallet" is a Haskell-based node (cardano-sl) that serves a restful http server that the front-end app (Daedalus) connects to.

I built both components back in November and could run it, I just did the same now.

Official Linux packaging would be great but until they get there you can build and run everything yourself.

There's a lot of beating the dead horse for laughs, though. I had a friend who wanted to send me some Iota, and I installed everything on Ubuntu without any trouble. If you screenshot every step of any process, it becomes absurd (and maybe it really is, but we've gotten used to jumping through a lot of hoops).

I guess you installed from binary then?

> its first, centralized phase

Yikes.

I chuckled too, but mainly because he didn't download the most recent exe file and tried syncing to his own out of sync node when he could have more easily used a lightnode. It was almost like he was going out of his way to make it difficult. Hmmm, wonder why he'd do that?

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