What does HackerNews think of desktop?
Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions
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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.
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 IMHO this is the open source ecosystem working as intended!
What an odd reason to feel insulted.
Also, there's a Linux fork: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
A GitHub employee maintains an unofficial Linux-specific fork here: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
You can get it on linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/github-desktop-bin/ (mentioned in the official docs) or https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop.
What I dislike about Linux in general is how often the mentality for an app is “you’re using Linux, just find the repository and figure out how to get the release to your system or build it yourself”.