Considering that git already support email based collaboration, I agree that a federated forge is really niche. It's more of a frontend bonus. Which, considering the amount of company still using IRC, is not really a priority in the commercial world.
SpeakinTelnet
"OK then do me a favor, shut it down, unplug the power for 5 second and plug it back in"
I dunno, I'm getting tired of them
"Dasher, Dancer, Prancer...."
"His name is Meatball"
Having to install things mostly through flatpaks works seamlessly until it doesn't. Then you're stuck in dependency hell where you have to open holes in your containers to allow access to files or binaries.
I'm at a point where I layer enough software that I don't know If there is still value added.
I'm currently trying Fedora Kinoite and from the get go the hassle of getting a proper Firefox+codecs to watch online videos feels like a major step back.
Then you have the issue of installing software in flatpack (is: vscode, texmaker) that are either not fully working of need to have their access tweaked. Atomic distros appeal is to "just work" it doesn't seem like it does.
Dumb and Dumber: UwU edition
It doesn't make sense, Forgejo just forked gitea and discarded all of the history (I.e.: issues and PR) previously included in gitea's github repository. Of course they could host it on their own platform, it was already functional and they could start from a blank state.
Pretty much the same reason why Quebec offers high subventions for R&D. This in turn attracts new companies and specialized employees. What the province pays in subventions they get back in attractive jobs.
+1... Started using Zola and built on top of it to learn scss, javascript, and HTML. All that extra building was not required for a running site but was still a great learning experience.
Just tried both and I don't know which one made me feel better
One felt like being run over by a train, the other felt I was a legless puppy in front of a kindergarten.