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Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux:

    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path
    
    Caused by:
        Platform<LinuxPlatform>::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet
    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/zed.rs:661: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0

I get those too, but the Zed window is still open and I'm able to edit a file just fine. I'm on Fedora 38 FWIW.

Hmm, the process segfaults right after, so I assumed this was the cause. Looking at the output again, I think there's another unrelated issue that happens at the same time, where Vulkan is unable to start due to ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER.

EDIT: Yes, I was missing a driver. I had a driver installed (amdvlk), but that apparently didn't work, and vulkan-radeon does.

I was able to reproduce the segfault in a project with millions of files. It spat out a JSON blob saying something about

    Could not start watcher on parent directory: Error { kind: MaxFilesWatch, paths: <my path>
It works well for smaller projects though.
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