The last update was over a year ago it seems. I remember everyone talking about the desktop environment like it was the next big thing. May she rest in peace.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @RegalPotoo
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      584 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • JustEnoughDucks
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          True, but the UI reflects that they still use source forge lol. Still the best open source camera.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          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

      • Bobby Turkalino
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        Exactly, they could be hosting their releases on whichever site they use for remote git, but they don’t know how to use git

      • @hjjanger
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        14 months ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think most projects left Sourceforge after they started putting adware into they’re downloads.

      • @leo85811nardo
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        33 months ago

        Over the beginning few years into software engineering and FOSS world, I legit thought Sourceforge is a sketchy software download website

    • @[email protected]
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      264 months ago

      it feels like when Debian had a website in 2015 that looked like 1997

      As a Debian user… Its the same in 2024.

        • @[email protected]
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          84 months ago

          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.

      • @linearchaos
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        24 months ago

        I don’t care what the website looks like as long as the product still works as amazingly as it does now.

    • DigitalDilemma
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      194 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        164 months ago

        It was bought out and cleaned up a few years ago. It’s legit again now, though I don’t think it’ll ever really recover from that fiasco.

    • 2xsaiko
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      I agree about Sourceforge but there isn’t really anything better than Bugzilla still, at least not that I’ve seen anyone use.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      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.

      • Phoenixz
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        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

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      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.

  • Handles
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    494 months ago

    <Sees fish symbol>

    <Notices the word “reborn” in the project name>

    Give it three days, it’ll rise again.

  • Lantern
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    Everyone was talking about it back in 2022, but it hasn’t really had any progress since then. I had attempted to use it, but it was rather unpolished.

  • @Wispy2891
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    I watched the GitHub and it looks like it’s deepin os with a custom settings app and a MacOS style dock.

    At that point just install deepin os and hope they don’t lie about user privacy (being owned by a Chinese for-profit doesn’t help)

    • @daggermoonOP
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      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.

  • @TCB13
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    -114 months ago

    Removed by mod

    • @lambipapp
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      64 months ago

      Lol. Most of us in this community are end users using linux, ya dip

    • @ErnieBernie10
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      24 months ago

      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

      • @TCB13
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        24 months ago

        The funny part is that my comment was removed by a mod 😂

        • Phoenixz
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          13 months ago

          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>)

          • @TCB13
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            13 months ago

            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.