Yep, at my previous job I moved a pretty complex build system from Jenkins to github actions. It worked fine and was much simpler to maintain.

And yes there are ways to run github actions on your own machine, but I haven’t tried it.

Can you clarify how “Not even Github managed to pull that off”?

GitHub actions has an atrocious user experience, to the point that even a year or so ago people where doubting it was production-ready.

Sure, you can put together a pipeline. But I challenge anyone to try it out with GitHub actions and then just try to do the same with GitLab or even CircleCI or Travis.

The fact that people compare GitHub Actions go Jenkins of all things is everything anyone needs to know about it’s user experience.