• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
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    3 days ago

    I don’t get how this project just received 8 million dollars. It really is just a preconfigured arch linux.

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      It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.

      Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a “we think this is the future of Linux” vibe investment.

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          Its not the future of Linux, most likely a fad. The most it will be is a cult OS used by people on the far right.

          The only thing good I can say about it is that it has interested some people into Linux because of how all of the components are unique compared to Mac and Windows. Cosmic could be the main stream option for those users once it becomes more stable.

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            18 hours ago

            Definitely agree with the cosmic take. It is the desktop for my distro AstrOS, anyways, this shouldn’t be self-advertisement. COSMIC delivers the beauty of tiling with ease of use. I could never use Hyprland… hmm, maybe because the dev is banned from freedesktop? This same person gets money from this whole “sponsorship” now

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      $8 mil is pocket change for the investors. It’s like eight dudes all giving their bro $100 for his art project.

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      3 days ago

      because it’s not about a quality OS, it’s about being a hive for people to take advantage of others, and because the founder personally made connections to the people that publically gave him money.