Not a dev, but this individual comes across as an asshole.

Knots is an application, just like core, download, run.

Some shit is as easy as choosing it from a drop down box.

If they figured out how to run bitcoin in the first place, they’re just being lazy.

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He actually figured it out. The option to install wasn't appearing until the other instance was uninstalled or something equally asinine.

They both use the same directory, so asinine maybe, but preventing data being overwritten is prob a good thing.

It’s a simple lock on the data directory. So that two instances of bitcoind can’t overwrite each other’s data.

That’s fine but noobs don’t know what steps to take to make it work and we are intimidated by advanced options and menus filled with such options.

There needs to be an Install button on Knots even if Core is installed and running.

That install button doesn’t need to be operational but it needs to be there and perhaps it should be colored grey or something to indicate that the button is not yet functional for a reason. Then, when users see the button, they go to click it, and it doesn’t do anything. They ask “Why didn’t the button work?”.

Then they see words that the devs could choose to display that say “in order to install Knots you must uninstall Core. To uninstall Core, select Core, scroll down to Actions, and select Uninstall”

That would be clean.