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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I've seen it and did not cover it intentionally not only because I don't have a Mac, but also because I find it (without being *too* over-dramatic, here) unforgivable that they use different terminology for common tasks, as if to train users to not understand git; for instance, when pushing, you click the "sync" button. I realise this is superficially more familiar to a new user than "push", but if I had a dollar for every time I've had to revise my question from "did you push your changes?" to a github desktop user to "did you sync your changes?".... There are a few other things in the UI that betray pure git, but that's the one that comes to mind. But aside from that, yes, it's a nice GUI for those stuck on that closed source platform.
Great article, I agree 100%. There's not a problem with paying for software, but I have problems when 1) software forces you to use an OS just in order to use the application (ie, it's not cross-platform), 2) software threatens to rob a user of the ability to always have access to their data (ie, non-open file formats that become useless without a license for the application that opens them), and 3) people and companies implying that an artist isn't "serious" because the artist chooses to not use the de facto closed source apps. Those reasons alone are enough to use open source software for all my creative work; the fact that open source apps tend to be (in my opinion) "smarter" and more efficient is just a bonus for me.