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It's kind of insulting that this doesn't have a Linux release, given where git comes from. It's an Electron app for crying out loud. <edit> I've reconsidered.

• charonn0 5y ago
  Insulting to whom?
  • emptysongglass 5y ago
    To the entire Linux community and its maintainers who tilled the earth and grew the seeds and invented the flower that allowed GitHub to be. But I have magit, the best git porcelain of all.
    • deleted 5y ago
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    • charonn0 5y ago
      What an odd reason to feel insulted. Also, there's a Linux fork: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
      • dbbk 5y ago
        They don't actually feel insulted.
• yarg 5y ago
  Nothing stopping you from building it for Linux. https://github.com/desktop/desktop https://github.com/desktop/desktop
  • jamesgeck0 5y ago
    A GitHub employee maintains an unofficial Linux-specific fork here: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
    • app4soft 5y ago
      Few alternatives to GitHub Desktop for Linux, written in C++/Qt: Guitar[0] - https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar GitQlient[1] - https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlient https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlient [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943427 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995682
  • dTal 5y ago
    If it's so trivial, why didn't they?
    • type0 5y ago
      MS they don't want you to use it, because Windows!?
    • atatatat 5y ago
      Embrace, extend, extend, extend, play politics.
• ThrowawayR2 5y ago
  Sourcetree has never had a Linux version either. Are you insulted by Atlassian now too?
  • jlkuester7 5y ago
    Yes, I am insulted by Atlassian. But mostly because they are responsible for creating Jira.
• amarraja 5y ago
  > <edit> I've reconsidered. It's really insulting. In the most objective way possible, if I was a FOSS author, I'd find this comment insulting Pour a beer down your sink for every dev who has abandoned a project - mostly in free time - due to demanding and entitled users
  • dTal 5y ago
    It's a commercial product owned by Microsoft designed to profit - financially - directly off a piece of software Linus Torvalds himself wrote specifically to manage the development of Linux. Not supporting Linux - when they trivially could - is an outright statement.
    • jlkuester7 5y ago
      The GitHub site itself is commercial, but unless I am missing something the GitHub Desktop client in question is actually open source (MIT) https://github.com/desktop/desktop https://github.com/desktop/desktop. In fact, as was mentioned elsewhere, there is an actively maintained fork of the project that adds support for Linux environments. https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop IMHO this is the open source ecosystem working as intended!
• Jaxkr 5y ago
  Try Sublime Merge. It’s a git client from the people behind Sublime Text. Native app, works great on Linux.
  • baumandm 5y ago
    Another +1 for Sublime Merge. I use it every day and it's incredibly well-designed and built.