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While complex tuis are definitely not my cup of tea (I prefer cli tools to be simple, otherwise I would probably use a proper gui), I'm really happy that I'm not the only one wishing for a way to access lemmy from the terminal.

I did, but i was going for something really small and simple, more like an ebook reader than a webui.

As I've mentioned in another thread, I believe YouTube provides analytics on this (hence the "most replayed" parts for some videos), and I'm certain I've seen some creators mention sposors requiring that information before a deal is made. So it may really hurt some small youtubers that can't rely on merchandise sales.

That said, I personally use sponsorblock as I don't feel like wasting my life on nordvpn ads, but I have to admit sponsor segments are a whole lot better than regular YouTube ads.

Edit: And as I far as I know they pay much better than regular ads.

I believe this is because sponsor segments are like traditional TV ads. They don't use trackers, they are not targeted and they respect your privacy.

Yeah I keep running into similar issues when trying to build pretty much anything on windows; for stuff that can’t be ‘nicely’ configured & dependency-managed through an IDE, windows is pure pain.

You seem to be right. It finally compiled successfully a few minutes ago, installed pygobject successfully, following the instructions and it claims the gi module could not be found, even though pip lists it as installed. I really don't know how Windows developers deal with such things. Do they just avoid known bad libraries?

As for installing Python itself; I think I’d stick with the plain installer from python.org, and afterwards, pip. In case of dependencies that are hard to get through PyPi, I think anaconda might be worth looking at as well: https://www.anaconda.com/download

I've decided on following the exact steps in the wingtk guide, as my attempts to deviate from them resulted in quicker failure, hence installing it through choco.

It really sounds like PySide would fit your use case better. Check out this website for a great starting point: https://www.pythonguis.com/pyqt6/ – the author also has an entire book on packaging PySide programs for cross-platform distribution.

While I'm sure Qt may be a better option, this project is a companion app to my PhD thesis to make the algorithms discussed somewhat easily available to a somewhat general audience and is completely unpaid so I really don't feel like learning a new GUI framework for it. Maybe I'll make a quick and ugly pysimplegui UI for Windows users.

Anyway, I'm sorry for ranting. Thank you so much for the suggestions and explanations! It's really appreciated.

Tagging @cadekat@pawb.social as they've asked the same question.

Last night i was failing because of some VS components missing (iirc cl.exe, which was actually not missing at all).

Today, I've reinstalled Windows 10, to get a fresh start and follow wingtk's guide. First of all it failed as "choco install python" (as mentioned in the guide) installs python 3.12, which does not include distutils.

After that I've tried uninstalling python and installing python --version 3.10.11 with choco and got the same error as gvsbuild still defaulted to python 3.12, even after a few reboots.

Not knowing how to clean it up, decided on reinstalling Windows again, and installing python 3.10 only. Half an hour ago the build process failed for some (probably) network related issues ( ).

Currently I've installed a driver for the wireless card instead of using the built in one, and the build process has been stuck at "Opening https://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.51/pango-1.51.0.tar.xz ..." for at least the last half hour.

As for msys2, I haven't went that route yet, as I can't quite understand what it is and what it does. I can understand even less how to package a package installed with msys2 using either PyInstaller or nuitka, to have a (hopefully) single file executable, as I'm trying to distribute the app to my students, which are extremely non-technical.

I wish there was something like Wine for Windows.

Yes, a while ago, at the beginning of the project, and eventually decided against it. GTK, despite it's terrible documentation for python was just a more robust desktop app framework.

I quite heavily rely on sliders, dropdown lists and a file browser and while it's possible to do that in pygame, it's just too clunky.

Yes. For some reason yesterday, while trying to use the demo it just returned a login screen. Strangely, today it just logs in automatically.

Is it just me or there are no login credentials for the demo listed anywhere?

Maybe give FileBrowser a shot. It's not very fast, but it's very easy to setup and keeps your folder structure intact.

Just gave it a try, and it seems to work just fine like that. Thank you.

Just with different environment variables?