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cool photo removedr, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.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how to build it (which doesn’t work on your distro), but don’t worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you’ve installed it by other means.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.

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    3 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    It’s completely out of date, so no one uses it anymore.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.

  • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

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

    • Darohan@lemmy.zip
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      3 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 :/

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

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

    • UnityDevice@startrek.website
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

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

        Everything else comes from standard repositories.