[rsyring]

After troubleshooting a couple issues with the GitHub Actions Linux admin team, and their decision to not address either issue, I'm highly skeptical of investing more in GitHub Actions:

- Ubuntu useradd command causes 30s+ hang [1]

- Ubuntu: sudo -u some-user unexpectedly ends up with environment variables for the runner [2]

1: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13048

2: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13049

[Storment33]

I mean...

They told you why it takes so long no? the runners come by default with loads of programming languages installed like Rust, Haskell, Node, Python, .Net etc so it sets all that up per user add.

I would also question why your adding users on an ephemeral runner.

[Marsymars]

> I would also question why your adding users on an ephemeral runner.

We use runners for things that aren't quite "CI for software source code" that does some "weird" stuff.

For instance, we require that new developer system setup be automated - so we have a set of scripts to do that, and a CI runner that runs on those scripts.