jonathonf

> KDE5 never seems to be the default choice of desktop environment

Apart from KDE Neon, and Garuda, and...

> it's probably more efficient to reduce churn

That would be lovely. Unfortunately, many places would rather you move job than give you a raise. It's cheaper in their accounts, and that's what (ah) counts.

Was it 80%* or 96%?

Was Phacility paying for a dedicated IP or not?

If someone from a company is lying to you then is this really an overreaction?

(*Was 80% cherry-picked from a particular domain and so used in a purposefully misleading way? Should a sales rep have access to that sort of data anyway?)

I'm surprised by the other comments here that I'm in the minority thinking that the sales approach was pretty terrible. You're trying to sell something you don't understand to a company you don't understand. Why? If you actually want to "help" a company (by selling them your product... not really sure how that's "helping", but...) then at least do some research into the company and provide something that looks useful rather than some crappy "Hi, I like you, let's chat!"

In this specific case, someone somewhere is lying about services being provided. If that's sales then that's not great. If that's accounts/billing then that's probably worse. In any case it's a pretty terrible look for the company concerned, and understandably results in an erosion of trust.

I thought your point was that Manjaro isn't afraid to try to introduce commercial software into the default installs...

(The FreeOffice version included was essentially feature-limited shareware, also requiring registration after 30 days)

You've taken that sentence out of context. ;)

Using funds to pay for colo costs (and possibly staff) is not "skimming". The entire purpose of raising funds is to pay for things.

The front page of the project says:

> Please do not share this website with others until we believe it's ready for broader distribution.

Sure, it's accessible, but it doesn't really seem to be in good faith to directly ignore someone's explicit wishes.

> Is there a writeup/summary somewhere that explains "the lessons learned"?

Not that I'm aware of, but I'm sure you could check the GitLab commits and/or ask on their forum if you're interested.

This is a young project (just under a year old) with developers who do this for fun. The developers are going to keep making changes that maintain the fun they have during development.

Mistakes will be made. Things will break. Lessons will be learned. This isn't a decades-old mature distro, so if you're expecting something absolutely bullet-proof then Garuda currently isn't it.

However, I will say that the pace of improvement is pretty stunning. Their direction and what they have achieved in a short space of time is pretty impressive - not just within the distro itself but the surrounding OOB features and infrastructure like ChaoticAUR (prebuilt AUR packages), secure password management (Bitwarden), dotfile sync (NextCloud), a pastebin service for log output (Privatebin), ...

Is it perfect? No. Is it for everyone? No. It is what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, and I kind of like that approach.

> These funds are parts of the community funds Phil (founder of Manjaro the Company, and project leader) had collected privately and forwarded to this collective

OpenCollective and CommunityBridge/LFX were set up after the surprise company announcement to collect community donations from that point (and intended to protect them as independent). The previous privately-collected donations were never forwarded.

You can switch to whatever theme you want. The defaults are opinionated. If you like them, great. If not, use another distro. That's fine.

It doesn't make the original bug less severe, but it was resolved under an hour after it was reported.