There's really no reason to use SourceForge anymore. GitHub can do almost everything SourceForge can do, aside from app reviews I guess. GitHub also doesn't make you feel like you're in 2004.
That's a very important point if you're distributing your software to non-technical users, but a download button in either the README.md should do the job. You could also use a GitHub site and host a simple download site for your repo.
It seems to me that if a project on GitHub is interested in making it easy for lay-people to download, then a little dose of
https://pages.github.com/
should do the trick? (Personally I found SF's interface confusing and incredibly "busy" -- I don't think lay-people would fare much better, but I could be wrong.)
If the creator of a software critiques your SaaS that uses his software maybe you should pay more attention to it? I am sure Linus knows git a lot better than most of us.
he doesn't complain about the website design he is complaining about the functionality. In fact he's stated in interviews he doesn't wish to ponder in web development.
I am not surprised someone who's career has been writing the lowest of low-level software. kernels and device drivers, isn't interested the total opposite end of the spectrum, web development.