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Does anyone pay these people for their awesome work ?

Every time I see their progress in a such undocumented space, my jaw drops. Huge respect.



Most of them accept donations:

> If you want to support my work, you can donate to marcan’s Asahi Linux support fund on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon, which helps me out too! And if you’re looking forward to a Vulkan driver, check out Ella’s GitHub Sponsors page!

Lina also accepts donations on her streams. I think Alyssa is funded by her employer, but I'm not sure.


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Are you sure about this? The Asahi about page (https://asahilinux.org/about/) lists Hector Marcan and Lina as separate people. I assume Asahi Lina is a pen name, but I don't see anything to suggest it's Marcan's alter ego?


If you took that literally, and actually believe this is a real separate individual, and believe this is their real voice, then I don't know what to say to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk

This is how its done. Voidol2

https://crimsontech.jp/apps/voidol2/?lang=en

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfid5kXxjY4


That’s… odd. I just figured from the name that it’s someone who wanted to protect their privacy, but that’s certainly, uh, some persona.

If it is the creator, my charitable interpretation would be that it’s a form of experimenting with identity and gender.

It doesn’t rub me well though when OSS projects list fake contributors. (Even projects as neat as Asahi.) I mean, morning me, afternoon me, and late night me are vastly different people, but I can’t pretend to be a three-man team just because of that!


On the internet, no on knows you're a dog. Who cares?


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Yeah, who cares? There's one of you folks soiling every good technical discussion about Asahi.


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Couldn't care less... even to click the link. Everyone has their quirks. What is wrong in your life that someone having weird fun is a factor in anything? Reminds me of the Michael Douglas character in Falling Down.




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