If OSS developers can build and maintain essentially all of our digital infrastructure in the time between "work", then what would happen if we gave them all the time they want? What would happen if every developer had the freedom to build up and improve the things our entire society rest upon?

What does software look like when motivated exclusively by profit? You get Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Qualcomm.

What does software look like when it's developed out of passion purely for the improvement to the world? Curl, linux, git.

Funding OSS developers is entirely backwards. It's trying to insert a profit incentive where it should not exist.

It’s not “the world economy depends on this stuff why is it not properly funded” (which is true) it’s “never before has a coupe of guys or girls in a garage been able to reach so many people, and stand a chance of getting funding”

The troubles people have finding ways to make a living whilst providing value to people suggests something is wrong not with them but the economy

I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon.

I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.

amazing distro.

[1] after it messed up my linux dual boot config, continuously reset my registry tweaks with forced updates / restarts, insisted on re-enabling the io-destroying Defender, and started force-feeding me ads

I think that's sensible but from a user perspective it's also why I think these nth degree derivatives are pointless. So much infrastructure and maintenance to effectively ship arch with a wallpaper.

Many of these projects eventually go the way of the dodo, I believe this is in itself a successor to Antergos. Just install Arch, Debian or Fedora and take 10 minutes to configure the desktop. The biggest issue with arch was the setup but they ship a TUI install script now that anyone can use. The OS on your computer shouldn't be a hobby project.