My gut reaction too. But their readme/faq makes a lot of sound points. Also Nextcloud is one of the main contributors, so you know it’s serious. Also Proton and Ionos (which I admit I’d never heard of, but they seem big)

You might be interested in an immutable distro. Like Bazzite or other Silverblue / Ublue flavoured system. They are recent but not bleeding edge, deploy well tested images that apply as all-or-nothing. Very stable, very featurful :)

You’re basically calling bullshit on a charity having increased fuel prices, because you’re not aware of any Iran conflict!

Perfect metaphor

Super aggressive scraping bots who ignore robots.txt

It’s not unique to Gnome, and it’s been a problem for a year or so

I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues

Yes

Come to the dark side, we’ve got new Plasma, and exhausting manual configuration

Add to that doing field work with slow and unreliable internet, and it literally takes 30 seconds to open the context menu in explorer. Gotta wait for corporate.exe to time out first. At least opening the start menu doesn’t literally take 30 seconds anymore, after a regedit change to stop it from searching online first.