Improve installation instructions, maybe add more details about unofficial packages

[simskij]

Like asdf, aur, appimage, snap among others.

Should also include a disclaimer about these methods not being official

[simskij]

Same as mentioned in #51. Closing that one as this contains (somewhat) more details. Thanks @mstoykov ! 🙏

[na--]

https://repology.org/project/k6/versions

We can mention some of these packages - they're unofficial for us, in that we don't build them ourselves, but they may be official to some of the distributions (i.e. they are officially packaged in their main distribution channels)... So, I think we should distinguish between at least 3 tiers of trust:

1. Managed by us
2. First-class packages in a distribution
3. Just a random package built by a random person on the internet

The distinction between 2 and 3 for me is whether someone from a respected distribution/package manager has to review the package before it can be updated, or if a single random person on the internet can release a new bogus k6 version with malware via that channel... 😄 Homebrew and nixpkgs probably fall in the second category, while AUR is in the third, I think...

[mstoykov]

• the asdf is one year old
• aur is up to date
• can't find an appimage
• snap is 3 years old.

Given that I kind of feel like there is barely any reason to make this page.

I would argue Arch Linux users are aware AUR exists and know how to check it and have only them seems ... strange

So I am for closing this and not do anything. So for the purposes on not waiting on this I am closing this issue and if someone disagrees they can reopen it.

[mstoykov]

The chocolatey one seems up to date and has had a PR to be added to the README forever three years.

[imiric]

🤦 We discussed with majkinetor last year when we were making the transition to dl.k6.io to take over maintenance of the Chocolatey package, but never got around to it. He was open to it, we just never started it. If we don't plan to do that soon, it would be a candidate for this separate page.

Though given that is the only package (and possibly Brew as well?) actively maintained by the community, we don't need a separate page for it, so 👍 for closing this.

[na--]

I somewhat disagree here. Maybe we don't need a separate page, but I don't think the current page with installation instructions is very good. So I'll reopen this with a slightly changed title.

[mstoykov]

I would prefer if you open a new issue and propose the changes you want or at least describe what you don't like from the current one.

Now this issue has a title and first comment that don't go all that well together

[MattDodsonEnglish]

The installation page has instructions for the choco package install now. Same one documented in the linked PR: https://github.com/grafana/k6/pull/1027/files

Closing this issue.