Note from a donor

[Bo]

On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 05:20:05 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> That's it!
>
> I've had enough!
>
> 4 hours wasted!

Please try getting some editors going for D on Windows like 
Visual Studio Code or Atom. That time wasted will skyrocket even 
more when you run into one of the many issues.

Linux installation is not much better.

Brew ... took a hour to install but only had dmd not dub for some 
reason.

The install script on the website:

curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd

Well, that forces people to use:

source ~/dlang/dmd-2.076.1/activate

Each time they want to work with D. And it does not play nice 
with WSL because it never gets loaded so trying to access dmd 
from outside the WSL does not work.

Download the Ubuntu/Debian deb file ... well, you better have 
google near you. How hard is it to have "sudo dpkg -i 
DEB_PACKAGE" as a instruction clearly on the website instead of 
only the deb file link... :)

Or write in clear way simply:

wget 
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.076.1/dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb