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Jason’s cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.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how to build it (which doesn’t work on your distro), but don’t worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you’ve installed it by other means.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

  • @cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
    2•3 months ago

    How the fuck do you have a decade old arch installation? I have to reinstall it about every half a year because something breaks and its to complicated to fix it so I just choose to reinstall everything. In the 18 Months or so that I used Arch I had to reinstall it about 4 times. I don’t even install that much stuff and I also don’t go absolutely wild with configuration, but Theres A lot of stuff breaking in my system.

    I also got used to just ignoring problems because I’m to lazy to reinstall everything or spend hours upon hours fixing my system.

    • Blaster MEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Everyone on Lemmy: “Just use Arch! Why are you using anything but Arch! Arch is the best! Arch is better than everything else!”

      Also Lemmy users: ∆

      Me: So my Ubuntu Server, which has been the same install for well over 10 years, hasn’t needed a reinstall ever… even through corrupted RAM, multiple hardware changes, and drive upgrades, I’ve just cloned it and kept on trucking…

      …and yet everyone says Ubuntu is the worst…