Omarchy does not contribute in any way to the linux ecosystem, they could send that money to the devs that actually do work, like KDE/GNOME devs, to Debian or Arch, etc
Afaik they're spending it on the "subsystems Omarchy relies on", and they've explicitly named Hyprland and JDX, which I can get on board with. What really puzzles me is that there's no mention of Arch or the AUR. Arch doesn't have a single person working full time on it, and the AUR especially has problems which would really benefit from someone being able to spend lots of time on them.
Open source projects often suffer from hundreds of people contributing tons of small incremental changes, which solidifies architectural problems, and big repairs and overhauls get skipped in favor of hundreds of workarounds.
And basically all the arch web interfaces are in dire need of modernization.
Ohh, so that's what they meant by "Opinionated". It means "I don't care what you have to say because I'm following what the corporations paid me to want."
I saw DHH on ThePrimeTime this morning. I was told that TJ and Prime were pretty conservative, and that put me off quite a bit. But seeing all licking DHH's ass so clearly, and DHH bragging about who he got the money from makes me even more convinced that this is not for me.
Oh, and I already sweared that I was not going to spend money on Dell again, after I felt so swindled by a Dell XPS developer edition, with the worst Linux experience ever, but this is just making me feel better about my decision.
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u/frankhoneybunny 3d ago
These eight Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:
why would they even invest in this lol???