It's the preferred language choice for lots of slop projects because it's fast and memory safe. It's the language that lots of people would like to have written their projects in but couldn't because there is a steep learning curve, but LLMs let you slop out thousands of lines of rust without that.

Yeah, you can write this type of article about literally any product that has ever released in the history of the world. Some percentage of them break quickly, it's everything else around the story that matters like what percent it is and how the company reacts to it.

I think "tennis" was supposed to be "temps" but got autocorrected.

Yep, or you can pay for the commercial version that has that feature built in. It's up to you if you want to do the right thing or not.

they can even keep it proprietary if they wanted to.

Yes, with the caveat that it would have to be an internal piece of software, or if it's a public facing tool then it would have to be under a non-copyleft licence. But yeah, for 99% of use cases they could have a proprietary fork.

It's based on waydroid in the same way that proton is based on wine, so seems unlikely.

be nice if copy-paste worked

I copy and paste between waydroid and the host os all the time, so this one seems to have been fixed at least.

It's written in Vala, so it compiles to native via C.

Okay, so it's as good as an experienced navigator, that seems pretty good to me!

If I were in the middle of the ocean I couldn't find my location within 100 nautical miles without GPS so I'm pretty impressed

It's just the current hot thing in Linux, the last one was CachyOS, and before that Bazzite, it's normal.

The give aways: starting paragraphs with a punchy sentence in bold with a colon.

Plus they used the "it's not X it's Y" thing.