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https://programming.dev/u/onlinepersona posted on Feb 18, 2026 02:50
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I read that. How many users do they have? 47k seems like a lot but how many devs does that really pay for? The answer is obviously “not enough”. Otherwise they wouldn’t be talking about dev pressure.

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https://piefed.social/u/WebleyFrog posted on Feb 18, 2026 02:58
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That amount of money a month is extremely substantial for an open-source project, and especially for a distro. It also far exceeds previous years.

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The pressure mostly seems to be from adding wayland support to Cinnamon, combined with perhaps maintaining more projects at too regular an interval than their team can chew.

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https://programming.dev/u/LeFantome posted on Feb 18, 2026 20:56
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That amount of money is one developer full time maybe. Which can make a really, really big difference for an Open Source project actually.

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https://lemmy.world/u/asdfasdfasdf posted on Feb 19, 2026 11:51
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That amount of money is one developer full time maybe

$564,000 / year??? I’d think definitely two, maybe three.

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https://midwest.social/u/RamenJunkie posted on Feb 19, 2026 16:39
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Yeah, feels like 3-4.

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