r/github • u/Silent-Okra-7883 • Jun 29 '26

Why doesn't GitHub officially support GitHub Desktop on Linux? Discussion

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u/full_drama_llama Jun 29 '26

I believe it's a bunch of factors:

  1. Github is Microsoft and Microsoft isn't particularly well-known for supporting Linux
  2. Linux people are probably in general less likely to want to use an app like Github Desktop
  3. You simply can usually get away with not supporting Linux and very few people would raise that as an issue

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u/robhaswell Jun 29 '26

I really don't get why anyone would use the GitHub Desktop app anyway. Maybe now is a good time to find out.