GitHub desktop is available for Mac and Windows and not for Linux. I feel this is so wrong after their entire shit is build around open source.

https://help.github.com/desktop/...

A big fuck you to open-source from github... Didn't expect that.

Who needs a fancy ui application when you have the power of shell

GUI is for noobs

They know it'd be a waste of time , nobody will use it ! Rice your shell mate !
:wq

@Artemix kraken is good only if you have a pretty powerful rig

And guis get the job done with a couple of clicks or a few keyboard shortcut combinations.

I'd prefer that instead of typing words into the shell, much faster, I don't like moving the mouse around and clicking, but keyboard shortcuts do the trick!

@leviathan07 But you need to start the application (or leave it open), you get no history, and the error messages disappear. Plus many are tempted to: "oh, reset, that sounds like what I want to <KABOOM>".

@Gauthier in the GUIs I've seen they actually don't make it that easy to fuck up. That is exactly the task of a UI: make things easier to understand and work with.

I really don't understand the animosity against GUIs. Some people don't like using arcane interface technology when something better exists. Some people like to be close to the bare metal of things, even if that takes more effort, whatever, each to their own.

because people that know how to work on linux, have build things like github without a gui. They don't need a gui. They could go vim(m)/nano all the way if they had to.

@Artemix I do believe you are right,
but there will always be newer and better.
All I am saying is that, building a github gui app for linux is probably not even worth it because there are already so many good git apps out their, linux only, that work perfectly fine with github.

@antoni4040 yep and GitHub should actually be quite opposite - oss and stuff and free beer :) stupid move

As a linux user it would be plus for complicated situatios. But still would use console for 90% of work.

As a Windows user who tried out the desktop version, and still prefer the shell, I cab see how they didn't find it necessary to make one for linux..

About the GUI can fuck you up approach:

Linux philosophy is that if you fuck it it's your responsibility for not knowing what you are doing.

This "oh no I clicked this button without knowing what it does and know its your fault" should not be acceptable for adult developers.

Like expected the comments escalated to GUI vs bash. Well, that was not the point I was trying to make. All I am saying is that companies that benefit from open-source don't give back to the community.

Bruh, you don't need no freaking GUI when you are blessed with a proper terminal.

Because command line is all you need :)

I setup bash scripts and aliases to simplify GitHub from Linux with less typing. 'push current' pushes the repo I'm in and gives an input for comments

Because you don't need one!

@sylar182 so you're basically building a gui then.

@GriffinSauce less graphical, so UI rather than GUI, I'm still in my terminal.

@sylar182 the point is that you are abstracting the actual commands away and working with a simpler interface. Aliases are the most basic form of that and GUIs are the most advanced (now voice and AI is slowly taking over).

@GriffinSauce the big difference being that his solution isn't mousy, and he still gets text output and input history in a single place.