GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps

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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Big Mistake.

[jcr]

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

-jcr

CoC

[Kunedog]

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

Re:CoC

[Mashiki]

Progressive stack or "the more xyz you are down the scale, the more your opinions count." Whites are at the top according to that, so your opinion counts for zero. And you can't forget the part in their CoC that states they won't go after any form of reverse racism, cisphobia(actual word used or in a common word 'hetrosexual'), sexism against particular groups of people and so on.

Github has turned to shit ever since they tossed meritocracy out the window.

Re:CoC

[agm]

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

Re:Github Code of Conduct: White male discriminati

[c4757p]

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.

Re:Missed opportunity

[TheRaven64]

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.