I'm not sure if there's advanced commands that GitHub Desktop does more with but for the most part it's just a porcelain frontend that works great for doing sim

I'm not sure if there's advanced commands that GitHub Desktop does more with but for the most part it's just a porcelain frontend that works great for doing simple operations but can't do things like interactive rebases, reflogs, blames and so on. It's a pretty simple frontend to get started if you're just learning git. There's not much it does that's GitHub specific. If you're logged in, it will easily checkout your upstream repos.