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[doc] Make it obvious that only MacOS is supported.
Most projects built with Rust are cross-platform, and up until I visited the downloads page, or the build instructions, I could not find any indication that this project is macOS only.
It kinda felt painful, because your land page does a very good job at advertising this editor, and it made me excited to try it out, only to get disappointed by the fact that no, I can't try it out.
Sure, this is an alpha, you may be planning to make it cross-platform in the future, that I do not know. But please do a better job highlighting that it is only available on MacOS.
That's all, hope you didn't find my issue as a negative one.
In issue #5395 they also made it very clear that multiplatform support is pretty low on their roadmap and that they won't accept any feedback on that roadmap.
@MrHaroldA That's outdated information. They have just published their roadmap yesterday. Linux support is on the roadmap for 2024.
https://zed.dev/roadmap
I think what OP is asking for is something in the readme to state what the level of support is so far (and perhaps on the advertising website).
We now highlight in the "Installation" section of the README that only macOS is currently supported: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed?tab=readme-ov-file#installation
Please add this to the homepage so most people (>70%-80% of Devs use Linux and Windows) are diverted away without wasting their time.
Closing, as we've updated the repo README with more clarification for platform support.
Linux and Windows support are currently underway, so this will be moot before long.