Is it me or is source forge just the mark of dead things.
I always avoid that place. It feels like where you go to get broken stuff.
They’re gonna take me out back and shoot me for saying it but Launchpad too. Like I’m glad it works for you but it feels like when Debian had a website in 2015 that looked like 1997. How are we going to attract new talent when the rift between the average developers and the old guard widens over time. All the git VCS modernization supercharged development. Like bugzilla was “fine”, but " fine" was the problem in a world of better when you couldn’t even upload a > 250kb jpeg and other legacy hold us back stuff.
If a project is hosted on sourceforge then its a pretty good sign that the developer hasn’t progressed their craft since about 2005, which is a pretty big red flag for anything
Not a linux project, but OpenCamera for android is probably the only exception I know of. It’s still getting updated and does best what it’s supposed to do.
Good thing is that sourceforge have anonymous commenting and tickets. Once I had an issue with open camera I didn’t need any account to create a ticket or comment
If your a chess fan, Scid vs PC is regularly updated and it’s hosted on sourceforge. However I don’t go there unless it’s for that or other related projects.
Agree - after they started bundling adware in downloads (2013ish?), all the decent projects seemed to move to github en masse.
Those projects that stayed were mostly already stagnant, or the maintainers didn’t use git and didn’t want to learn, or had some other reason that allowed them to accept advertising on their work.
Oh I’m not complaining. Its quick and simple to navigate. I don’t need flash, I need function.
I wouldn’t mind updates with that aspect kept in mind, but I’m not going to complain about it either. I think more websites could use debian.org as an example.
And that’s especially true for Linux and other big projects.
I’m not a kernel or C developer by any stretch, but a few years ago fixed a small bug that caused my knockoff PS2 controllers to act super weird. Nothing serious, something like one constant and maybe 5 lines of code. Would have gladly pushed that upstream, but fuck me sideways is that a complicated process. Patches via email??? And the argument is always “but it works for us”, yeah burning witches and slavery also work for some people, doesn’t mean it’s something to continue doing.
If there isn’t a serious revamp, Linux will die a slow death or become just a corporate graveyard product like Cobol.
rift between the average developers and the old guard widens over time.
You write “new kids value appearance over function and lack the mentors to show them why that’s bad” funny. And, you should use the other punctuation for a question.
I agree, alot of the young guard prefers bling over whatever actually works great. Having said that, giving older software a bit more bling is a good idea because said young guard is the future and you always want to lure people with the bling and keep them with the great functionality. Right now they see bling and if it’s shit, oh well, that’s just how it works
“Remember any Linux desktop distro that targets the end user? Pretty sure it’s dead”
Get over yourselves, Linux desktop will never succeed unless there’s professional and proprietary software that people really need to be productive / make money available for it. I’m talking about Adobe, MS Office, Autodesk and all the specific stuff that forces people into using Windows. Don’t believe me? Look at the gaming space, it only became marginally relevant once Steam decided to start porting all their proprietary games (software) to Linux.
You are getting down voted but you are right. But if companies making software would support Linux natively this would make a huge difference too and that is not the case now
Yeah that’s not cool. What did you say? I don’t care what it is, don’t remove comments just because you don’t like them (unless you started yelling about killing the evil <insert minority here>)
I sad that cutefish as a desktop experience is as dead as any other distro because unless we get proprietary software makers (Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk etc) - things that most computer users want - making software for Linux the desktop won’t go anywhere.
Deepin looks gross lol. What I mean is it only looks good with its own apps. KDE apps look horrible on it and GNOME apps don’t look great either. I don’t know how anyone uses Deepin. I get taste is subjective but it feels half finished.
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