please add install instructions for linux on the https://openadapt.ai/#start page

[hemangjoshi37a]

Feature request

please add install instructions for linux on the https://openadapt.ai/#start page

Motivation

please add install instructions for linux on the https://openadapt.ai/#start page

[abrichr]

Hi @hemangjoshi37a , thank you for your interest!

Unfortunately at this time, OpenAdapt does not currently support linux for two reasons:

1. This is non-trivial additional effort for minimal gain. According to https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide, Linux currently occupies about 4% of global desktop OS market share.

2. The input control library we use (pynput) does not support differentiating between "injected" (synthetic) and regular (human) input on Linux (see Using event suppression to create a remapper moses-palmer/pynput#105 (comment)). While we do not yet make use of this functionality, we do have plans to in the near future.

That said, we would welcome a Pull Request to add installation instructions for Linux! The relevant repo is at https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt.web. Of course, this would require testing the core library on Linux as well.

[hemangjoshi37a]

but you should consider that 96% of the developers use linux who ultimately are going to use openadapt and not your average everyday Karens. LOL also i believe you response is AI generated and not any person is responsible for your response.