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    I've been transitioning to Linux recently and have been forced to use github a lot when I hadn't much before. Here is my assessment.

    Every github project is named something like dbutils, Jason's cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.

    There are either 3 lines of documentation and no releases page, or a 15 page long readme with weekly releases for the last 15 years and nothing in between. It is either for linux, windows, or both. If it's for windows, they will not specify what platforms it runs on. If it's for Linux, there's a 50% chance there are no releases and 2 lines of commands showing how to build it (which doesn't work on your distro), but don't worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you've installed it by other means. Everything is written in python2. It is illegal to release anything for Mac OS on github.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date

    found the ubuntu user :D

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    OP listened to some trolls and unironically picked Gentoo as their first distro.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

    I'm currently in the process of updating Slackware's documentation, some of which hasn't been touched in 12 years.
    It's completely out of date, so no one uses it anymore.
    And because no one uses it, no one updates it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wait until you install some package and then scratch your head not knowing how to run it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    Helix Editor did this to me. They have so much documentation on their site about how to use the editor, how to extend it, theme it, etc., etc. What they didn't seem to document, though, is that the binary is named hx, not helix :/

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Devs who make the -h command actually useful are modern day saints.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    wait, does apple let users access github?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, why would they block a website?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    It's a joke

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Well, they have blocked a mobile phones connection when you held it in your hand sooooo

    "You're browsing it wrong"

    /s

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Antennagate happened 14 years ago. A lot users are too young to remember that

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I have never heard of that before

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Iphone 4 had a shitty antenna design. This was the first iphone with a metal frame around, on the sides of the phone. If you holded it with your left hand you could easily accidentally short the two parts of the antenna, basically cutting all signals.

    This was definetily a design fault, there was even class action lawsuit against Apple. When they asked Steve Jobs about this, he replied:

    "You are holding it wrong."

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If your distro was arch, you most likely have the nightly build available on the AUR

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Aur and pacman are 90% of why I use arch.

    Also fyi to OP: never install software system-wide without your package manager. No sudo make install, no curl .. | sudo bash or whatever the readme calls for. Not because it's unsafe, but because eventually you're likely to end up with a broken system, and then you'll blame your distro for it, or just Linux in general.

    My desktop install is about a decade old now, and never broke because I only ever use the package manager.

    Of course in your home folder anything goes.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Absolutely. Funky installs go in ~/bin. (Ok, plus the valve directory)

    Everything else comes from standard repositories.