Neshura @ neshura @bookwormstory.social

Just some IT guy

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I have honestly no idea what the GitLab devs did but their service is such an incredible memory hog it's insane. Obviously GitLab has a pages service tacked onto it but my GitLab instance (mostly legacy but a friend still uses it so it keeps chugging along) eats a whole 5GB of RAM while my Forgejo Instance only uses 200MB. I have no idea where all of that memory is going because it sure as hell isn't going into responsitivity. I've no idea if I configured something wrong or if it's GitLab pages but it's still excessive

huh, would you look at that. Pretty stupid move and something that makes this entire thing even more suspect. Glad I picked Forgejo over Gitea

smaller company

true but then again that isn't quite what I meant with my comment. For an individual looking for a self-hosted forge GitHub just isn't really an option. Pricing aside having to go through a sales channel and then likely not having full control over the software stack is not what individuals look for when they want to host a private git service

Forgejo has different development priorities but feature wise they should be identical since the Forgejo devs also push their code upstream into Gitea

From the way the explain it this is just "more secure" but only if you use a shared VPS for your hosting, which I have no idea what percentage of hosters do. Seems like confusing but valid marketing to me.

From my personal experience running GitLab and Forgejo (Gitea Drop-In replacement/Fork):

• Gitea/Forgejo is easier to get running
• UI is less bloated/faster
• GitLab redesigned their UI and imo it's shit now
• No features locked behind a "Pro" Version (Pull or Bidirectional mirrors are for example unavailable on GitLab self-hosted unless you shell out for premium)
• Gitea Actions is a lot more intuitive than GitLab CI, this is likely personal preference but it's still an important factor

I would be less critical of this if it was not the same company managing Gitea, it seems like a decent enough platform but having Gitea be OpenSource is a detraction from possible profits because nothing stops anyone from creating a service like this for cheaper.

I hope the company behind this stays on the good path but I'm not holding my breath, I'll be sticking to Forgejo for the time being.

It's even possible to self-host. Afaik you don't get to Self-Host GitHub unless you are a giant corporation.

Edit: nvm I thought it said "GitHub"

That is one awesome set of new features

wait what? wtf kinda logic is that? It's a religion not a fucking phenotype

Let's appreciate the insanity of opening factories in countries with some of the best unions and laws supporting unions and then doing a pikachu face when those unions go and decide to bust your kneecaps for essentially abusing the workers... Elon why did you even open a factory in sweden? It was obvious from the beginning this would happen.

Sounds easy enough to implement tbh, will maybe take a look later how much work that'd be because it's a must have for me as well

A lot of smaller things, at least for me. The biggest grievance I have with it is the garbage tier UX between hitting "Deploy" on a stack and getting ito to do so. Error messages in the notification bubble get cut off, are unhelpful amd/or disappear too fast. That and the L9g Voewer sucking ass are my main problems with it and why I'll definitely check this out.

Didn't know about that, would go into the same category as Arch then.

Depends on how you categorize "Linux" User, if you include anything running a Linux Kernel as "Linux" then the vast majority have no clue they're using Linux.

Because, in addition to the other valid points raised, modern "Anti"-Virus Software is often worse than an actual Virus.

There are way too many pop ups, the menus are confusing and constantly try to upsell you. If you want to remove the damn thing usually it doesn't work, or doesn't work completely, or has a separate auto-updater that reinstalls it after the next boot.

False positives screw you over good (Kaspersky killed the Ethernet Network on a buddy's PC. He couldn't use the internet on it until he managed to remove that piece of shit from his system completey) and are not less frequent than with Windows Defender but certainly more annoying (see above example)

If you paid a subscription getting rid of that is a pain as well (BitDefender tried to scam me out of 130€ by sending the billing notif to an email address they shouldn't even have anymore)

Not all of them are shit like that but most are so sticking with the preinstalled Windows Defender that does 95% of the alternatives results in users having a better experience.

remind me to add that shitstain of a domain to my pihole block list. So many search attempts for a niche problem just to end up with a paywall...

Yes because Valve maintains their own compositor. You can enable that HDR support on desktop as well through some workarounds but it's not really usable outside the SteamDeck yet.

customer service

Not unless you're a business customer lol, don't get me wrong they do support but the quality really isn't much above a community Linux forum (at least where I live). Not that the average Joe knows that so the claim is still a valid reason why people don't switch.

Teams with multi-tenant. The desktop Windows app lets me quickly switch between the 6 orgs I need to, unfortunately on Linux I have to have 6 different browser profiles and use the web version which just doesn't fly.

Probably never gonna happen because Microsoft has an active interest in making it not happen

There is one weird VPN program a job forces me to run and unfortunately it isn't available on Linux.

Knowing the VPN I'm forced to use I'll just make a blind guess that the VPN you're forced to use doesn't support IPv6 either, because actually providing a product instead of an overpriced relic apparently is really difficult for Enterprise VPN Companies.