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On Linux you can’t install globally without sudo. Unlike on Windows global means system global, not user-global. Such a thing does simply not exist for Linux’s npm.

If they fixed that, 99% of these issues would go away. This is actually an example of something from the node universe working better on Windows.



> On Linux you can’t install globally without sudo.

thats not right. you've just got npm setup wrong. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permission...




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