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My impression of github since switching to Linux

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Jason’s cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.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how to build it (which doesn’t work on your distro), but don’t worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you’ve installed it by other means.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

Guenther_Amanita ,

Just a small (or maybe big?) tip for you 🙂

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how to build it (which doesn’t work on your distro), but don’t worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date

There’s a tool called Distrobox.
You can install it (via CLI I think?), and then manage it the easiest way via BoxBuddy (available in your Software Center).

With it, you can screw all those “Doesn’t work on my distro” moments.

You’re on Linux Mint? No problems, here’s the AUR for you!
✨✨✨ BONUS: Your OS won’t break anymore randomly due to some AUR incompatibility, because everything is containerized! ✨✨✨

It’s absolutely no virtual machine. It basically only creates a small container with all dependencies, but it runs on your host. You can also export the software, and then it’s instead just like you would have natively!

I hope that was helpful :)

FiskFisk33 ,

your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date

found the ubuntu user :D

Alk OP ,

Close, but not quite!

november ,

your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date

And the only reason you wanted to install the thing is because it’s a prerequisite for some other thing you wanted to install, which requires the latest version.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

wait, does apple let users access github?

odium ,

Yes, why would they block a website?

Deckweiss ,

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

“You’re browsing it wrong”

/s

BlackLaZoR ,

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

SanicHegehog ,

Then think “I’ll figure it out later” but you never do. Only to be reminded of it a month later when you happen to see it scroll by in an apt-or-whatever package upgrade.

“Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I should check that thing out again” you think to yourself. But you never do. Repeat for eternity.

HouseWolf ,

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

j4k3 ,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

You get used to how to find the right way of doing stuff. If you’re still in the Windows biased search results space, everything FOSS is made to look sketchy. Those search results are not deterministic. That bias is intentional. Eventually Microsoft stops biasing you or bribing Google to do the same and your search results will be better. Then you stop using the search results all together for the most part. You’ll figure out that the ways you did things in the past were inefficient and usually wrong. There are better ways that you’ll discover and those repos are self hosted or on gitlab or elsewhere. You eventually just use RPM fusion, or you setup distrobox with Arch and the AUR, or you toss on the Nix package manager and start using flakes. The vast majority of my initial headaches were due to trying to replicate Windows workflows. Then I learned all of that was weird and pretty backwards.

Grenfur ,

When I first moved to linux I felt this same way. It gets better. Now days I fucking love those 15 page ReadMes and I’m not bothered if there’s no steps for my distro. The sheer volume of documentation surrounding linux packages is insane. There’s often a ton of ways to configure and manage the to fit your needs. That freedom is what I love so much about linux.

As for the ones with 2 lines, I don’t think I’ve seen that as much. I generally would avoid them unless the source was clear what the project did.

At any rate there will come a day when it starts to click. It’s just a marathon not a sprint.

GravitySpoiled ,

Interesting how we live in different bubbles ✌️

Alk OP ,

Yes the world of github and linux is vast and I am like a newborn baby. I hope to visit your bubble one day my friend.

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