Linux land has been inhabited by big dogs like Canonical and Red Hat for a while, and it probably wouldn't have picked up the enthusiasm it has from companies over the years without the likes of them. So agree that corps like the safety provided by other corps, but it's not like this new one is the only offering.

Corporations like dealing with corporations. I think this is it. Linux land is otherwise inhabited by peasant folk who do stuff for free and for fun.

They could get $3B for all I care, I’ll never use it.

By finally giving Linux an acceptable, i.e. racist, capitalist, face.

_Citation needed _

What even happened? The dev didn't really explain the reasoning behind this decision, just that it happened.

Okay then, wow. Glad I didn't go through with my transition from Spotify to Qobuz. Fuck those guys. Both of them actually, but Spotify has more of the music I require. 🤷‍♂️ What's a guy to do.

Not only that, but there are some glaring security mistakes in the configuration. There is a deep dive from last year: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy (I hope they fixed some of this stuff)

But the core of this "distro" is a bunch of bash scripts that do a curl to somewhere instead of proper packaging.

It is a 101 on how not to install Arch linux.

He appeals to the worst in some very influential people, basically "Get in the car losers, we're going Naziing". And all these rich people just happen to have a deep seated urge to go Naziing that societal ethics hasn't allowed them to explore before, so they just give him all their money.

That, and in a quid pro quo for their investment they'll obviously expect DHH to be even more of a Nazi than he has previously been. There, that's his "masterclass". Still impressed?

it's all about who you know.

Even more sadness for me, I actually liked Omarchy when I first learned about it as a Linux noob. But I hear there's other ways of achieving the same functionalities, so I'll be looking into that once I find time.

So far I know zero people who have even considered switching to this this slop stain of an operating system.

Seeing his work on Omarchy, i would definitely not call DHH competent at all lmao. It's a lot of hyprland configs and way too many (probably mostly unvetted) aur packages.

Hopefully this all keeps being open source so the leftovers could be reused, for the benefit of other projects.

This feel potentially hellish…

This is all good and well, but does it matter? Are people switching to a distro because it is well funded? And even if they do, will they stick around? To me, this looks like a little money furnace that will shut down the moment the cash stops coming in.

He's exploiting the AI craze. And is himself a wealthy and connected individual. Also he's including essentially ads in the OS. Which is exactly the type of thing people leave Windows for.

working toward full integration with the Chinese services people depend on

Regardless of everyone's opinions, myself included... One thing's for certain: this is a masterclass in fund raising. How the hell is he pulling it off ?

omfg this cannot be happening.. how is this happening? Are they all getting fomo from not giving money or something?

Big suck! I just discovered QBZ last month. As a Linux user it fixed my problem of there not being a Linux client and their Web player being absolute shit.

Oh well, I guess that's the end of my subscription.

You're the exact type of intellectual black hole that poisons any amount of productive discussion on the topic, moral absolutism runs rampant everywhere, but especially on this platform, people love pretending they are better than reddit, Twitter, or w/e. but it's equally impossible to have any nuance.

Shameful display. Pathetic.

Indeed! Trying to move my stuff to my Pixel and use it more, even if some wrinkles are there.

Please note Fairphone 6 is not properly supported yet, but the effort is there.

I bought Fairphone 6 and I will install postmarketOS on it in due time.

Because we need to start embracing it now, or we will never get it rolling.

that one game from that one HDG fanfic is closer to reality now