• lol some bigot loser 'we’re not political! 'who never used Linux before getting all this money and surprise he has little understanding, hence still a shitty release.

    I tried it for a few weeks unfortunately just so i can see the trash first hand. and it is buggy, not intuitive to use, full of shit webapps for crap platforms and worthless because all of that agentic crap that you’d want can be easily done on a base arch install.

    • 1 day

      After Chis Titus video, I am only going to ransack the quickshell configs. I really need some references on how to structure it. Don’t worry, I also read some other configs and I am not aiming for ultimate eyecandy.

      • What happened or what information was the issue in that said video? I stopped watching Chris Titus for a long time (when he ditched Linux and went back to Windows, its years ago now).

        • 12 hours

          Oh, he just made a point, that for him, it is worth to take some of its ideas and implement them into his own config. And I kinda feel the same about my sway setup.

          Basically, it has cool stuff and you can read the configs and take what you like.

          video in question

          • omarchy really doesn’t make any sense as a distro. If someone really wants an agent, Why have all that slop prepackaged when you can just generate it yourself and have swim in your own slop.

            Are they really pegging their success on attracting people who can’t even copy paste a basic Hermes agent install script?

            Yeah these people don’t stay with Linux and they’re attracting short lived attention and that’s it.

            I kind of enjoy seeing these corporations donators burn their money and also their reputation.

  • Just gonna shamelessly leave these two paragraphs out of the website of my own distro here.

    • seema like concentrated effort to steer a specific linux desktop distribution in a certain direction

      There we go, I corrected your typos for you.

      • While I agree Linux is inherently anti fragile and can survive enshittification by corporate goons, that amount of money that this dot file Linux installer will have a heavy effect on what projects get funded and which ones are left to their own.

        There’s a nice donate page on the archlinux site and let me guess how much they’ll get from this foundation when afaik the arch team had turned down whatever partnership the dot file installer guy wanted. Should come anyways no strings attached right? Considering they’re funding hyprland. So using arch as a base would imply they would fund them no strings attached… Right? lol

  • Its almost as if DHH and those transphobes over at Hyprland(not to mention Lunduke, Luke Smith, Distrotube, and the various cadre of right wing little bissh boys on YouTube) all forgot about Linus Torvalds.

    A screenshot of a comment from Linus Torvalds which reads: "I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me. Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order. I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you? I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now."

    As far as I’m concerned Linux is for the left. But heck when an ideology like fascism is born out of grifting off left wing ideology (i.e. See Mussolini’s socialist/anarchist father), the right can just appropriate whatever they want…but they’ll still always be little bissh boys to me.

  • 2 days

    That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.

    • I thought Omarchy is an OS for Ai agents, not for humans. Why would any human use Omarchy then?

      • fucking called it when the first batch of millions started rolling in. not that it was too difficult to see. disappointing to see many open source folks being like “who cares?”, which is just the head-in-sand reaction i’m used to encountering when talking about fascist politics with locals. it seems to me that the users who are ready to welcome large amounts of institutional capital into open source projects don’t understand that it comes with strings attached. maybe they think more money = more eye candy = growing userbase = better video game support on linux? idk, hate to see fascism creep into every aspect of my personal interests

  • I hate the phrase “X$ in compute” so much. What does that even mean? It could mean a 1.5 million dollar value worth of donated time on one of their servers, or it could mean a hardware donation, or it could be a cash donation that is earmarked for server upgrades/chip purchases. Ever since AI took off it’s become such a common turn of phrase to use “compute” like this. As if the amount of money spent tells you anything useful about the amount of things they can “compute” now. Costs are so variable and spread out across many different areas that it changes day by day, and by which vendor you use, or what part of the world you are in, or all kinds of other things.

    Maybe I’m just behind the times and it has some specific meaning now I’m not aware of. Either way it annoys me.

      • So what does “1.5mil$ in CPU/GPU time” mean then? It doesn’t make sense. That’s not a standardized unit of time. Are we talking tokens like with AI? Whatever SpaceX’s going rate is to use their servers? Some other commercial service? That’s why I don’t like it being used like this. It would be like me saying I am donating 1.5 million dollars of “food” to the homless. Like that’s great right, but what the fuck do I mean by food? I could be giving them rice and beans, caviar, or anything in between. Meal vouchers to mcdonalds, or working with soup kitchens. It’s just vague.

  • God fucking damit, so many open source projects struggle for money and yet, that fascist jackass’ dot file distro gets all the support. That’s maddening…

    • Seriously though… I wouldn’t want fascists’ money anywhere near my pet distros, regardless of volume. As they say: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”

      • How do you think that’s supposed to work lol, if they can simply pay him (DHH) money, that’s already clean money.

        They’re just funding fellow millionaire fascists to take over a space that’s been historically left-wing

  • 2 days

    Because of course it would.

    I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.

    • I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.

      Nailed it here, imo

      • 2 days

        Which is very frustrating, because retiring C & C++ is long overdue IMO, but for reasons unknown to me, the Rust community is strongly against copyleft licensing.

        • 1 day

          I think the fact it’s statically linked plays a role. Common licences like the LGPL won’t work, leaving the MPL or the less similar but more commonly known MIT license

        • Wouldn’t surprise if Creative Commons had something to do with this. The copyleft licenses of it, of anything more restrictive basically than MIT and “attribution”, are listed as “restrictive” and “not open” or something. I think coupled with the complicated legal language versus “idk, whatever man” doesn’t help for lots of new projects.

          That said… Most of the stuff I’ve done has been so “idk, man, I made a thing for me and figured others might benefit” that I just gave it the MIT license for that reason. And it may just be as simple as that reasoning.

        • The rust community prefers freedom as in free to do whatever you want, copyleft has a different definition of freedom.

          • 1 day

            Thank you, Captain Obvious. The Rust community prefers that corporations have the freedom to embrace, extent, and extinguish open source contributions. Or maybe they don’t prefer it so much as they’re ignorant of it.

  • $1.5 million in compute = actual expense for Elmo is zero as Elmo’s datacenter is massively overprovisioned and is currently leasing compute to all their competitors

    But of course Elmo needs to send a message to the world: “please avoid this distro”