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I’m going to demonstrate installing GitHub Desktop on Pop!_OS Linux. Installing the tool on macOS and Windows is as simple as downloading and running the installer for either Windows or macOS.

I’m going to first show you how to install the extension and log in to your GitHub account. Once that’s done, we’ll add a GitHub repository to VS Code.