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SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
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seema like concentrated effort to steer linux desktop 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
Not gonna happen with torvalds at the wheel (pun intended)
But once the penguin caretaker goes to another userland, then who knows?