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
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?
Woke Mind Virus Linux.
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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.
Indeed – downvotes has no purpose other than self-validation needs.
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
I had to church 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/
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.
Yes what’s the deal. Because until yesterday I didn’t heard about them.
I don’t even know what it is. Is it a desktop Linux distribution? Is anyone using it at all?
Some rich dudes pushing money into it. That’s all that I know.
I had a similar experience, though I read about it here a few days before Youtube started pushing videos about how Omarchy supposedly is the reason that everybody must switch to Linux now.
What I have gathered, without being more than moderately interested:
- Some guy made a compositor / tiling window manager named Hyprland. According to its wikipedia article, its main selling points appear to be dynamic tiling, keyboard centric usage, and some fancy blur algorithm.
- Hyprland appears to have had some kind of freemium monetization model, where you had to pay extra for the full version. I.e. unlike the vast majority of Linux and its ecosystem, not FOSS. Perfectly legal of course, but could still be considered a dick move to not give as much back to a community where most other people are giving away their work for free.
- The guy who makes Hyprland reinforces his image as a douchebag by posting racist far right rants on his blog and other places.
- Omarchy is (was?) a script which installs Hyprland on Arch.
- Omarchy/Hyprland is riddled with ridiculously bad security issues, allegedly as a result of relying heavily on vibe coding.
- Some rich guy decides to give a lot of money to Omarchy/Hyprland, so the developer can let people use Hyprland for free, and rebrand Omarchy as a Linux distribution.
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.
