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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

43 points · 57 comments · pndy

unified101 · 1789893115 · focus · HN ↗
News piece with unnecessary annoying editorializing.
I think the idea of plasma widgets and rails fully being customized per user giving them material control on ones desktop is a good idea.
We need good ideas to counter and take on the omarchy nonsense.
1. bingemaker · 1789893757 · focus · HN ↗
  When you say omarchy, are you talking about this <a href="https://omarchy.org/" rel="nofollow">https://omarchy.org/ ?
  1. microtonal · 1789894124 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, the set of dotfiles by DHH for Arch that has raised 18.5 million dollar, while real distributions and desktops are struggling to get donations. Having a few billionaire friends who share your techbro politics helps I guess.
    cpursley · 1789897080 · focus · HN ↗
    DHH having to deal with gatekeeping attitudes like this and particular political prerequisites is the reason he created these “dotfiles” in the first place. I actually know several people who are not very technical and never Linux users who installed and switched to it as their main operating system. So I think what’s actually going on here is a lot of people are butt hurt that this is getting attention and having success when nobody else has before has.
    microtonal · 1789898453 · focus · HN ↗
    You don't think it is unfair that projects that have basically been xkcd 2347's "a project some random person in Nebraska" don't get a penny, while DHH who gets millions for a bunch of dotfiles, is unfair? I don't contest that his dotfiles may be useful to some people, only that all these companies didn't care to give significant money to open source projects that they all rely on to make their billions. But when one of the 1%ers shows up with his hobby project, they all stand in line to donate millions.
    To give an example: Digital Ocean is giving Omarchy $3M, while they cancelled their $50 per month GNOME/Flathub VM sponsorship a month before [1].
    [1] <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006167" rel="nofollow">https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006...
    cpursley · 1789898884 · focus · HN ↗
    Jake, non super-nerd in Ohio, never picked up Linux because they either never heard of it or the barrier to entry was to complex. Basic-ass stuff like drivers not working, etc - going on for decades now. Then along comes a personality like DHH who created an opinionated setup and now Jake has Linux on his computer for the first time ever. And now a bunch of people have been attracted to and have started hacking on linux, getting driver support working which is good for the entire Linux community - see the list here for ARM support: <a href="https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/introducing-omarchy-dragon" rel="nofollow">https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/introducing-omarchy-dragon
    microtonal · 1789899211 · focus · HN ↗
    You are arguing a point that I'm not even making. I will just stop here.

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