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I'm an idiot.

I was trying to install #Haskell on a machine and thought the installer was taking a really long time. In my defense, the last line of text was:

Installation may take a while.

It sat at this stage for over an hour while I did other stuff, because I hadn't bothered to read the previous line:
Press ENTER to proceed or ctrl-c to abort.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ha! I feel like I’ve done similar things along the way. πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

You are not alone on misreading prompts! At least you didn't file a bug about it taking all night or something 😊
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

It's not you, it's bad design. The prompt should always be the final line of output.

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