Oh, I always wanted to use 4gb of RAM to add files to Git.
GitHub Desktop 1.0
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Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0
#12Let me fix the marketing for you:
GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
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#13Future Electron apps will open a new tab in Chrome.
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#14Builds the entire business model on top of git, a tool that Torvalds built to maintain Linux but don't give a fuck to Linux users.
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#15Sorry, I don't see the value over TortoiseGIT,or any other native client.
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#17I really like the old version better. I really dislike this "cross platform" crap that runs terrible. It's like using a javascript app. Not only that, they don't even have it for Linux, so what's the point of doing a cross platform interface...
Yeah, I'll be sticking to the old Mac desktop app too. Visual bugs with the commit timeline notwithstanding, it's solid and smooth. The electron replacement is comparatively janky.
If they ever EoL the old true native Github Desktop, I'll probably switch full time to Fork, which is native Cocoa and generally great. I already use it a lot, but there are times when Github Desktop does things a little better.
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#18I really like the old version better. I really dislike this "cross platform" crap that runs terrible. It's like using a javascript app. Not only that, they don't even have it for Linux, so what's the point of doing a cross platform interface...
It's built with Electron, so it's not just like using a javascript app, you are actually using one. That said, I personally don't have a huge issue with Electron apps on face value - some of them (VSCode, for example) seem to outperform their native counterparts quite handily (in this case, VS - install time, upgrade time, cold start time, warm start time, actual usage). That tells me that the implementation choices…
VSCode doesn't beat SublimeText, Vim, Emacs, or Notepad++.
Electron apps might beat other electron apps (VSCode over Atom), but we're still a long sight off from electron apps beating compiled ones in most cases.
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#19I'll add to the Electron hating bandwagon.
Not every native app is good and often the UI and design feels crappy. I mean this was the case for decades. But I will still prefer crappy looking performant app over nice looking sluggish electron app.
I really really would not want to use a "productivity" type of application that is made in Electron but I also know that many people do not mind.
This said we are again in the era where it does not matter to most of the users. If it would people would stop using Atom/VScode and others. We all know that there is not a more cost effective way of building multiplatform apps (all things considered).
We will have to cope with this as long as there is not real competition.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm astonished at the fact that this is made in Electron but no Linux version is planned whatsoever. There must be a serious blocking reason for that.
Maybe they thought nobody would use it.
Yeah. Built the entire business model on top of Git, a tool that Torvalds build to maintain Linux but won't release an app for Linux because they think nobody would use it.