windows check to see if julia is installed doesn't work even though it is installed?

[MalikaIhle]

[moritzketzer]

The check probably only works in the case of installing Julia with a terminal packagemanager - like I did - i.e., MacOS with brew and windows with eg chocolatey. If people download the binary I guess they need to add it to their path and explaining this is beyond our scope.

I think when the binary is in the Applications folder on MacOS, it might also work in that case without tweaking the path, but I am not sure and don't know about the Windows case.

I think we should overhaul the installation page and include two forking ways (a) do you know how to traverse the terminal and have a package manager like brew, chocolatey or apt (b) no idea what that is and not interested / no time -> download the binary.

We should then change the check to either (a) installed with juliaup/OSpackagemanager -> type 'julia' (b) installed with the julia binary, open the binary.

What do you think @aaronpeikert @Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst @MalikaIhle ?

[Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst]

We are not able to fix this, because this is how windows works - we will have to be aware during the workshop