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SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
(www.theverge.com)
Nazis back Nazis... More at 11
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
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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).
Just gonna shamelessly leave these two paragraphs out of the website of my own distro here.
What a goddamn joke
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
Not gonna happen with torvalds at the wheel (pun intended)
But once the penguin caretaker goes to another userland, then who knows?
I use Arch*, BTW.
^*Arch=EndeavourOS^
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.
Compute means CPU/GPU time and has meant it for ages
So what does "1.5mil$ in CPU/GPU time" mean then? It doesn't make sense. That's not a standardized unit of time. Are we talking tokens like with AI? Whatever SpaceX's going rate is to use their servers? Some other commercial service? That's why I don't like it being used like this. It would be like me saying I am donating 1.5 million dollars of "food" to the homless. Like that's great right, but what the fuck do I mean by food? I could be giving them rice and beans, caviar, or anything in between. Meal vouchers to mcdonalds, or working with soup kitchens. It's just vague.
How much compute does dot-files actually need...? /shrug
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.
Probably the coolest comment Linus ever made
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
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He's not american, so no.
He lives in the US though so should we be using European or American terms? In American terms he absolutely is a liberal, based on all the stances mentioned, whereas in European terms, liberal more or less means capitalist
He's one of the few cool high profile Europeans to move here!
That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.
Always has been
I thought Omarchy is an OS for Ai agents, not for humans. Why would any human use Omarchy then?
*fascists
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...
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.
Seriously though... I wouldn't want fascists' money anywhere near my pet distros, regardless of volume. As they say: "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
It’s money laundering. Thats all.
How do you think that's supposed to work lol, if they can simply pay him (DHH) money, that's already clean money.
They're just funding fellow millionaire fascists to take over a space that's been historically left-wing
Because of course it would.
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.
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
Which is very frustrating, because retiring C & C++ is long overdue IMO, but for reasons unknown to me, the Rust community is strongly against copyleft licensing.
I think the fact it's statically linked plays a role. Common licences like the LGPL won't work, leaving the MPL or the less similar but more commonly known MIT license
The rust community prefers freedom as in free to do whatever you want, copyleft has a different definition of freedom.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. The Rust community prefers that corporations have the freedom to embrace, extent, and extinguish open source contributions. Or maybe they don’t prefer it so much as they’re ignorant of it.
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.
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isn't it SpaceXSI now 🤣
$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"
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