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My impression of github since switching to Linux (lemmy.world)
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I've been transitioning to Linux recently and have been forced to use github a lot when I hadn't much before. Here is my assessment.

Every github project is named something like dbutils, Jason's cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.

There are either 3 lines of documentation and no releases page, or a 15 page long readme with weekly releases for the last 15 years and nothing in between. It is either for linux, windows, or both. If it's for windows, they will not specify what platforms it runs on. If it's for Linux, there's a 50% chance there are no releases and 2 lines of commands showing how to build it (which doesn't work on your distro), but don't worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you've installed it by other means. Everything is written in python2. It is illegal to release anything for Mac OS on github.

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[-] _hovi_@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I have 2 plugins for rofi on Linux and it's true, no releases - best I can do for you is tags, take it or leave it

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

in other words your impression of a microsoft run website with the least foss example of git, since switching to linux

[-] Alk@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Correct! It's where web searches bring me so it's what I use until I git gud enough to learn how to find things better.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

I find shit for macOS on GitHub all the time lmao.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah you want to know the funny thing: I ended up on Github a lot when I was new to Linux, but that has happened less and less over time and I think it's due to two unrelated factors:

  1. I have assimilated. As a Microsoft emigrant, I was used to doing things a certain way, there were things I didn't know about Linux, I hadn't really chosen the hardware I owned for Linux compatibility, etc. So I kept having to go get weird device drivers and weird little software packages to work on my distro and open my old files and such. But as I've gotten used to the ecosystem, replaced my old hardware with that which is Linux compatible out of the box etc. I've needed to do something weird less and less often.

  2. Flatpak and Appimages have risen in popularity. It's easier to get the software you need, that runs on your distro, that is up to date and modern, even if it's not very popular. Because a variety of software is available in these formats it's easy to get what I need, be it commercial software, esoteric little stuff for my niche pastimes, etc.

[-] mwl@io.mwl.io 2 points 6 months ago

@Alk

absolute truth, this.

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Truer words have never been spoken before

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Use docker

[-] Alk@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I do in my server! But I didn't even consider it in terms of a workstation.

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