Ooh details please. I've looked at the docs but haven't used actions yet. What makes it worse than circle?

The initial capabilities look similar and circle really needs a competitor with how flaky their service has recently been.

Nah, Github Actions is actually amazing, and has been rock solid for me.

For someone who's not a pro in using CIs, it's been much easier to use than CircleCI. I never have to spend more than 20 or 30 minutes fiddling with Actions to make it actually work.

This for me is the biggest contribution to open source: normal people like me (who don't want to get too familiar with proprietary or overengineered CI tech) will be able to have CIs for pretty much ALL their projects.

I can’t speak for actions but you seem extremely biased for some reason. It would take you less time than it took to write this post than to learn circleci. Much less than 20-30 mins.

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/hello-world/

I might sound biased because I had lots of difficulties with CircleCI that I'm not having with Actions anymore. That's why I think it's a better product for my own use case.

The Github acquisition was pretty recent, no? It seems like Actions is something that Github would have planned and been working on for some time prior to that.

Really I feel competition with Gitlab which is pushing Github to do things like Actions that they should have done for a long time.