SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
5 days ago by remustan37 to c/linux
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
Let's check the Venn diagram...
Always has been
I thought Omarchy is an OS for Ai agents, not for humans. Why would any human use Omarchy then?
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...
Considering where the support is coming from.... Are you surprised?
Nazis doing Nazi things.
It’s money laundering. Thats all.
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.
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.
Based af
Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.
wouldn't even go that far, the examples he mentioned are pretty uncontroversial at this point
Wow. That went from Linus said something I agree with to Linus is a twat really fucking fast.
No. No… No it didn’t. Did you perhaps run it through a bad translator?
He's not american, so no.
He's one of the few cool high profile Europeans to move here!
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
Suddenly it makes sense
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.
Hope you get 1M.
seema like concentrated effort to steer linux desktop in a certain direction
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
$1.5 million in compute = actual expense for Elmo is zero as Elmo's datacenter is massively overprovisioned and is currently leasing compute to all their competitors
But of course Elmo needs to send a message to the world: "please avoid this distro"
lol some bigot loser 'we're not political! 'who never used Linux before getting all this money and surprise he has little understanding, hence still a shitty release.
I tried it for a few weeks unfortunately just so i can see the trash first hand. and it is buggy, not intuitive to use, full of shit webapps for crap platforms and worthless because all of that agentic crap that you'd want can be easily done on a base arch install.
After Chis Titus video, I am only going to ransack the quickshell configs. I really need some references on how to structure it. Don't worry, I also read some other configs and I am not aiming for ultimate eyecandy.
What happened or what information was the issue in that said video? I stopped watching Chris Titus for a long time (when he ditched Linux and went back to Windows, its years ago now).
Oh, he just made a point, that for him, it is worth to take some of its ideas and implement them into his own config. And I kinda feel the same about my sway setup.
Basically, it has cool stuff and you can read the configs and take what you like.
omarchy really doesn't make any sense as a distro. If someone really wants an agent, Why have all that slop prepackaged when you can just generate it yourself and have swim in your own slop.
Are they really pegging their success on attracting people who can't even copy paste a basic Hermes agent install script?
Yeah these people don't stay with Linux and they're attracting short lived attention and that's it.
I kind of enjoy seeing these corporations donators burn their money and also their reputation.
I hate the phrase "X$ 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.
Some Nazi nut took arch and made it worse by adding exploits like "any user process can escalate to root" or "web app notifications can execute any binary"
Somehow the other Nazis are loving this mess and he's getting millions in sponsorships from companies that want to be boycotted
In fact it is surprisingly unimpressive on a technical level. An Arch-based Linux distribution with the Hyprland tiling window manager. That's it. The developer has grovelled to Musk and friends leading to rivers of gold flowing in. It's everything that's wrong with the US and tech billionaire oligarch class in general.
Omarchy, Omarchy! It's Linux, for nazis!
I use Arch*, BTW.
^*Arch=EndeavourOS^
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That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.
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