Damnit. I just found out about Omarchy and was thinking about trying it out. Not anymore.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Cachyos will forever be the ideal Arch distro for nerds who want the benefits of Arch without the hassle of Arch (until they support some giant racist or soemthing)
of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
From Omarchy's site:
malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!
Wtf
All seven users.
Maybe I should sell my dotfiles? 🤔
They're currently in the finding out phase.
As bad as the "Nazi bar" problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it's a good thing.
Out of the loop... "Nazi bar"?
"popular distribution"? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
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I've emailed their customer service explaining why I'll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
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When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other "friends"
Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?
Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…
Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There's many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It's don't understand.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
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I wouldn't have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
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1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.
Except... ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.
Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn't.
Art / artist.
"popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy."
I've literally never heard of it.
I've seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There's definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It's just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that's been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they're familiar with Arch.
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PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
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I already wasn't gonna use either, but now I'm not gonna use either even harder.
How the fuck is Omarchy "popular"? I've been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.
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Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."
I didn't know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn't many users?
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