Why is the Windows version of SourceTree, which is my favorite Git UI on Mac, so much worse?

[mbleidistel]

Hi!

I have been using SourceTree for AEONS on the Mac, and I absolutely LOVE IT!

When I was asked to do some development for Windows, (might as well say it here: Hate WIndows and everything about it: Slowness, copies of something that was in the background but is now on my front window due to graphic updates not working right...whatever. In short, everything that macOS does faster, better etc.)
I was hopeful that at least SourceTree would be my faithful companion to ease my pain of having to work on Windows.

FAR FROM IT!

It is SLOW (which may be Windows), cumbersome, the Multi-document UI (compared to SourceTree on the Mac) is HORRIBLE (and slow, which may be Windows), the two step staging doesn't even REMOTELY work as nice as on the Mac... it keeps on going.

Atlassian, what WERE you thinking calling this SourceTree and saying it's available on Mac and Windows?
SourceTree is available on Mac... I don't know what that thing on Windows is.

Any comments?

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Ouch @mbleidistel 😕

I have never actually tried both OS versions as I only have Windows. 👀

As for the feedback from the forums, I did see people reporting more cons for Mac compared to Win but again, this is mainly observatory from my side.

I am curious - apart from slowness, are you experiencing any other negatives compared to Windows version?

Cheers, Tobi