[thruflo22]

GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git.

This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git.

It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party.

You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but this is very much an alternative to that.

[fireattack]

Well the disadvantage is it doesn't even have a Windows client.

[viraptor]

This is a first announced beta release. It doesn't have a few planned features. I'm sure windows build will happen at some point too.

[tpoacher]

Surely that's an advantage. :p