So preface, I am extremely OOTL with the distros. I have my Fedora box for work and its been running just fine for 5 years now. Before that i am an Arch btw user with i3 config riced to the max. I wanted to get actual work done so i stuck with Fedora and have not attempted any other distros.
Anyway, this Omarchy seems like a big deal? Idk everywhere i search, people are saying stuff like it is the best thing for Linux. Recently, there was news that Omarchy actually got funded for like $8 million?? The money comes from some big names too: Dell, DHH, Stripe, Jack Dorsey…etc. The dev who is working on Hyprland also indirectly benefits from this funding.
Is this going to become a serious corporate backed distro? We have Redhat for that right? Or is this just hype
Why is this being downvoted? This is just a naive and curious post; you guys really shouldn’t fall into the Reddit habit of downvoting things that you simply don’t like to read, instead of doing so when things are hateful, factually incorrect, or bad advice.
Honestly, shit like this is why I set up my own lemmy instance where down votes are disabled. It’s built in configuration option, but very, very few instances have it set.
In practice it works pretty well. Popular stuff rises faster than unpopular stuff, but people don’t get shit on for valid but unpopular opinions. It also means you can’t down vote yourself, but the counter to that is to just up vote other things. So much less toxicity and more positivity - I can really recommend it.
Gotta remember that a lot of Lemmy users are here because they’ve been banned from everywhere else. All the big Lemmy instances are highly moderation averse but I still report dipshits when I see them.
Im here because reddit is cancerous and I cant use RIF anymore. Im not banned.
Indeed – downvotes has no purpose other than self-validation needs.
It’s Oligarchy Linux. Promoted by a bunch of millionaires and billionaires. That’s why it’s everywhere. That’s it.
Another reason people are talking about it is that the creator is a notorious nazi.
One shouldn’t talk about Omarchy and/or DHH and not bring up fascism (among other issues, but let’s stay focused), self-professed: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
At least one Arch maintainer says Arch won’t be associated with them and calls Omarchy “just vibe-coded dotfiles and bash scripts”: https://floss.social/@serebit/117162401397324439
This blog took a look at it a while ago. Tl;dr, it’s arch, plus hyperland, plus some packages, plus - the original part - some questionably managed dotfiles.
Also, anything DHH does should be immediately suspect. And him having some of his wealthy friends put some money in a foundation isn’t really an indicator of quality, just networking.
I had to check if this was linuxshitpost or something.
Don’t support or amplify fascists.
How does using a distro amplifies and/or enhances fascism in any way? That makes zero sense. And before you say, “because the one who made it is fascist” – that’d make even less sense.
? You’re legitimizing the fascist? Like: He is the guy who made that software that receive a lot of money and has a good reputation in the community, we should listen to them he seems trustworthy. The fascist part get forgotten if people doesn’t keep talking about it and the PR bullshit keep passing.
No one would fuck know or care about DHH if he was not a creator of a popular framework(he is a racer too but I’m just giving a example of software products here).
According to this blog post, Omarchy has lot of security issues: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/
Don’t forget that DHH is a rascist piece of shit.
Omarchy is too close to oligarchy. Pass.
DHH writing an article calling for more inequality tho…
Where is this “hype” that you speak of?
Rich assholes want to capture more nerds to get them in their right-wing influence sphere. Cause there’s no other reason a bunch of fascist pricks would pay 8 million for glorified scripts.
Is it too late to copy a distro and drop some scripts in it for money, or would I have to be a racist dickbag for that to work?
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As with all things arch based: void better
Fundamentally, it’s got a political mission statement rather than a technological goal (ie. Debian seeks to be a very stable distro that moves slowly). All the money in the world won’t fix that, but he’s gonna have a lot of fun for the next few years.
I don’t think it’s a big deal. DHH is the creator. He has deep pockets.
It’s mostly just Arch with a fork of Hyprland, I believe. Largely keyboard-navigable interface, if you’re into that.
The money will likely benefit Linux as a whole but that remains to be seen.
The money will likely benefit Linux as a whole
I have major doubts that corporate money (and therefore influence) is a positive thing for linux
The sad truth is that Linux would be as popular as Hurd if not for corporate money and resources.
The question is that of control. Linux is still mostly controlled by Linus and his officers whom I mostly trust. Omarchy is controlled by a right-winger idiot, so I wouldn’t trust it regardless of money.
I’m not sure I follow your point. Why is popularity necessary? Arent windows and macos already popular? If the price to pay for offering a viable alternative to those two is dealing with the likes of Dell and stripe, let alone DHH, is it really such a great option?
In other words, my personal reasons for using linux are significantly weakened by the involvement of american corporations.
if nobody uses an operating systems nobody wi make software for it.
I just think there’s a sizeable gap between “nobody” using something and the mass market appeal encouraged by corporate interests
Agreed - things aren’t black or white.
After all, only a Sith deals in absolutes ;p
DHH is a Nazi pos, and I hate everyone glazing all over Omarchy.
I’m a little torn because if it helps raise awareness and desktop adoption if Linux, that’s a win, but fuck DHH.
