It bridges the "app gap" that has historically made Linux feel like a second-class citizen in the open-source ecosystem. It is not officially supported by Microsoft, but it doesn't need to be. The community, led by Shiftkey, has proven that with enough elbow grease, Linux can sit at the same GUI table as everyone else.
Don't let the command-line purists shame you. Download the .deb or .rpm . Visualize your diffs. Click your commits. You've earned it. Are you using Shiftkey’s GitHub Desktop on Linux? Let us know your experience in the comments below. shiftkey github desktop linux
That argument is valid (the terminal is powerful), but it misses the point. Sometimes, you just want to visualize a merge conflict or see a diff without typing git log --graph --oneline . Enter . Who is Shiftkey? For the uninitiated, Shiftkey (the handle for GitHub engineer Brendan Forster) is not an official Microsoft/GitHub product. It is a community-driven fork of GitHub Desktop that specifically targets Linux distributions. It bridges the "app gap" that has historically