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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Remember any Linux desktop distro that targets the end user? Pretty sure it's dead"
Get over yourselves, Linux desktop will never succeed unless there's professional and proprietary software that people really need to be productive / make money available for it. I'm talking about Adobe, MS Office, Autodesk and all the specific stuff that forces people into using Windows. Don't believe me? Look at the gaming space, it only became marginally relevant once Steam decided to start porting all their proprietary games (software) to Linux.
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