“Astroturfed” implies an appearance of a grassroots campaign, here the dev has connections to wealthy people who give him money, that’s really all there is to it.

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I think the dev just has connections and the people donating don’t understand what they’re giving to.

Yeah but even then, it’s an extremely niche distro and 99.9% of Linux users using a password manager service are using bitwarden/vaultwarden. It just doesn’t make sense.

That stood out to me too. It comes preinstalled with Omarchy so thats something but also Omarchy has like, a thousand daily active users so even that doesn’t sit right.

The hard question becomes is it better for Linux (where anyone can contribute labor) to get the attention and donations or for commercial software where only nonhuman corporations benefit.

Small instances are best. I just wish the big instances didn’t have most of the communities.

Gotta remember that a lot of Lemmy users are here because they’ve been banned from everywhere else. All the big Lemmy instances are highly moderation averse but I still report dipshits when I see them.

In the US they use Chromebooks, not really any better but they do have Linux under the hood.

lick the boot harder then

holy shit shipment too wow

I heard he got a coupon for a free soda at Burger King with purchase of an extra large value meal

I can support many many different crimes, a ton of crimes really, I think, should be rewarded! But speeding? That’s absolutely not one of them.

But what about their GPU drivers…

Just a few off the top of my head:

https://github.com/Arcticons-Team/Arcticons - a comprehensive minimalist icon pack

https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso - A good launcher

https://github.com/CodeWorksCreativeHub/mLauncher - minimalist text based launcher

https://lawnchair.app/ - A FOSS version of the default Pixel launcher

I don’t think you’re in the wrong to say that code nobody has reviewed has not proven safe, and a brand new project (of any kind) is not proven reliable. A brand new big project that’s purely vibe coded is every red flag of unsafe and unsustainable.

Yeaaah not to mention Immich already exists and is proven software.

Yes exactly, my potentially hot take is that twenty years from now we’ll look at immutability as the tipping point that sent Linux mainstream on desktop.

I think Fedora Kinoite is the best distro for someone coming from Windows due to KDE’s flexibility and similarity to Windows and it’s immutability. Default Ubuntu is great for people familliar with MacOS, and it can even be themed to be basically indistinguishable.

Signal is more like WhatsApp, Element/Matrix is aiming to be more like Telegram or Discord.