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GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes: GitHub today launched a unified desktop version for Mac and Windows — you can download it from desktop.github.com. GitHub Desktop will automatically replace the previous Mac and Windows apps and can be used alongside GitHub Enterprise. Venturebeat reports: "...GitHub was tired of the differences between its two apps and decided it was time to align them. The hope is that if Mac and Windows users have the same workflow, it will be easier for them to work together (and for individual users to switch between the two platforms)."

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  1. Missed opportunity by fnj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They could have just used Qt and made it really portable - Windows, OSX, linux, BSD, ...

    1. Re:Missed opportunity by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Qt is a great way of writing Mac applications if your goal is to piss off your users. If you want an app that looks sort-of vaguely like a Mac app and doesn't behave at all like one, then use Qt.

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  2. Big Mistake. by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anytime you make a cross-platform app, you end up with suckage everywhere. Go native or go home.

    -jcr

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    1. Re:Big Mistake. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yep For example Firefox and Chrome they both suck so hard.....

  3. CoC by Kunedog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A story about this but not the racist Code of Conduct they're trying to shove down everyone's throats?

    1. Re:CoC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

              ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
              Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
              Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
              Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
              Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

      Github......... it's like a giant freak show. Racism is racism, period.

    2. Re:CoC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Gwark!!! Gnaggle-Gnobblers!! Privilege white cis hetro male shitlord neckbeard NERDS!!! Meritocracy is sexist! Your opinions are miroagressive and rape. Slashdot needs to adopt a CoC to stop this harassment. Please, donate to my Patreon and join me in bullying enough geeks into submission so we can make the world a better place.

    3. Re:CoC by agm · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There's no such thing as "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism". Racism is racism, and sexism is sexism.

  4. Fork me on GitHub by diamondmagic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This looks OK, at least compared to the Windows version, but... where can I fork it?

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  5. Re:Github Code of Conduct: White male discriminati by c4757p · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not just "white male discrimination", rather a whole lot of eyeroll-worthy rules designed to make everybody always afraid of offending someone else...

    Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

    [snip]

    Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop

    ...so the last time I action-messaged somebody "/me hugs $NICK" on IRC as a tongue-in-cheek expression of cheerful approval, I was actually harassing him? Because I didn't say "hey, do you mind if I totally non-sexually pretend to hug you via text?" first? No, just go pound sand.

  6. their toxic code of conduct by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    makes everything they touch not safe for the real world.

    Fuck it, I'm going back to sourceforge.

    This micro aggression will not stand, man.