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Pros of flox
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      Open source friendly
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      Easy source control
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      Nice UI
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      Great for team collaboration
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      Easy setup
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      Issue tracker
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      Great community
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      Remote team collaboration
    • 449
      Great way to share
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      Pull request and features planning
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      Just works
    • 132
      Integrated in many tools
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      Free Public Repos
    • 116
      Github Gists
    • 113
      Github pages
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      Easy to find repos
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      Open source
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      Easy to find projects
    • 60
      It's free
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      Network effect
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      Extensive API
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      Organizations
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      Branching
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      Developer Profiles
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      Git Powered Wikis
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      Great for collaboration
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      It's fun
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      Clean interface and good integrations
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      Community SDK involvement
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      Learn from others source code
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      Because: Git
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      It integrates directly with Azure
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      Standard in Open Source collab
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      Newsfeed
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      Fast
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      Beautiful user experience
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      It integrates directly with Hipchat
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      Easy to discover new code libraries
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      It's awesome
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      Smooth integration
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      Cloud SCM
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      Nice API
    • 6
      Graphs
    • 6
      Integrations
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      Hands down best online Git service available
    • 5
      Reliable
    • 5
      Quick Onboarding
    • 5
      CI Integration
    • 5
      Remarkable uptime
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      Security options
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      Loved by developers
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      Uses GIT
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      Free HTML hosting
    • 4
      Easy to use and collaborate with others
    • 4
      Version Control
    • 4
      Simple but powerful
    • 4
      Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
    • 3
      Nice to use
    • 3
      IAM
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      Ci
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      Easy deployment via SSH
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      Free private repos
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      Good tools support
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      All in one development service
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      Never dethroned
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      Easy source control and everything is backed up
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      Issues tracker
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      Self Hosted
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      IAM integration
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      Very Easy to Use
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      Easy to use
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      Leads the copycats
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      Free HTML hostings
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      Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
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      Beautiful
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      Dasf
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      Profound

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    Cons of flox
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        Owned by micrcosoft
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        Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
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        Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
      • 10
        API scoping could be better
      • 9
        Only 3 collaborators for private repos
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        Limited featureset for issue management
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        Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
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        GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
      • 1
        Horrible review comments tracking (absence)
      • 1
        Takes a long time to commit
      • 1
        No multilingual interface
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        Expensive

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      What is flox?

      It is a multi-platform environment manager built on Nix. Manage and share development environments, package your projects for others, and publish artifacts anywhere.

      What is GitHub?

      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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