PSF has ~$5m/year, and that money is earmarked for the language and the whole Python ecosystem (including major related projects like PyPi, Ansible, etc.)

A distro that's just a skin on another distro getting this kinda funding is nutso.

[–] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's also weird to me because, if we take it at face value: Shouldn't an AI-built system be super cheap to build and maintain?

If big-tech was telling the truth about how great AI is, it shouldn't need all this funding or support. The fact that they needed to pump a lot of money into it is pretty telling to me....

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Well, yeah. Anyone who actually has to interact with AI systems knows that it's just a back box you put developer salaries into and get tech debt out of lol. They need the funding because they need actual devs to pay down the tech debt that's already been accumulated by the AI code.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

And why not just donate AI credits instead of money?

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it still just a collection of configs and installation scripts?

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's expanded a bit, but it's still not even close to a project like UBlue/Bazzite. Definitely not something that needs Millions in funding. DHH just wants to use that money to pay fascist devs to take over his upstream dependencies.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

damn it as a long time i3wm enjoyer I'm watching the demo videos and I am not hating what I am seeing. too much wasted space and visual faff for my taste but keyboard-driven and tiling are both things that more computer operating environments should be

I don't know why they need so much funding or where all this supposed agent dev time went though

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

There are plenty of TWMs out there, you can find dozens of spins that have similar functionality that are maintained by like one 18 year old furry kid on a budget of $15

Fedora also has an i3 spin if you want to try something atomic.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it's mystifying that this should be so expensive to develop. It's all nicely integrated but what have they really built? A pretty good menu tool, some themes, and some redundant package distribution infrastructure.

I run my laptop without a GUI at all, just live in tmux. I've even vibed up a bunch of TUI utilities to make my browserless life easier. Ran i3 for years before that. Didn't occur to me that I should ask for donations.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

The i3 spin is not atomic, you have to get Sway Atomic for that.