Wow, that’s a very thorough review, nice!
I do hope that these companies start to dig one inch deeper at least before providing grants and stuff, it really is a slap in the face of proper distributions (though I feel like the author’s recommendation of Manjaro is misguided 👀), of course at the end of the day they can give money to whoever the hell they want, but if they want to make good publicity, they’d better make sure they get it right
agree on Manjaro. It’s also easy to break in my 6 months experience in 2021. I’m now on Fedora since. Though I think EndeavourOS is a nicer choice for simplified Arch. Or maybe Archlinux itself has gotten easier with archinstall. But I myself have not tinker with distrohopping since I’m on Fedora.
Same here, Fedora, in particular, once atomic, I’m never looking back on my machines.
Before that I once used Endeavour and can vouch for its reliability
Nice enjoyable little read. Now I kinda know what omarchy is.
TL;DR it’s not a distro. It’s a pile of user scripts on Arch, doing things, who knows what.
Bad choices for included software too. I see preinstalled proprietary bloat as a dick move but I could get behind Steam, which is not preinstalled, unlike Discord, Zoom, WhatsApp and Google Drive! Not to mention the AI BS.
Other FOSS people don’t tend to get loads of money from Cloudflare or all this attention for what’s not even that interesting a project.
The Ladybird project is also run by someone who’s said some bad things but it hasn’t exploded in popularity or received 6 figures in corporate donations. Something feels off about this Omarchy hype… like, the product isn’t even that amazing, so the only thing I imagine could explain this difference is that it’s DHH doing it.
I will see people do this for other FLOSS developers, and I think it’s bad in those cases too. I don’t want to name them because I feel like that’s not worth the effort and frankly we shouldn’t give any attention to complaints about a dev’s personal opinions or character.
By contrast, I respect the critiques of his actual software, which mostly seem to be fair. I do wonder how much people would even be looking into it if they didn’t have strong opinions about his opinions, but as long as it’s accurate that’s what matters.
Why the hate? I’m out of the loop on omarchy.
Dhh has bad politics. Not sure about the software though.
a competitive racist racer
jokes aside, here’s a long review about the software quality, it’s really long, there’s a summary at the bottom https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/#summary
just in case the katakana link didn’t work, here’s the archived link https://archive.is/Ks8o5
Why the hell does he recommend manjaro still
I guess you know shit’s rough when Manjaro is the sane option
For real. There’s EndeavourOS which at least uses the Archlinux repos and seems to be just better AFAIK.
It’s honestly less bad than the insane bash monster that is Omarchy
Wow, that’s a very thorough review, nice!
I do hope that these companies start to dig one inch deeper at least before providing grants and stuff, it really is a slap in the face of proper distributions (though I feel like the author’s recommendation of Manjaro is misguided 👀), of course at the end of the day they can give money to whoever the hell they want, but if they want to make good publicity, they’d better make sure they get it right
agree on Manjaro. It’s also easy to break in my 6 months experience in 2021. I’m now on Fedora since. Though I think EndeavourOS is a nicer choice for simplified Arch. Or maybe Archlinux itself has gotten easier with archinstall. But I myself have not tinker with distrohopping since I’m on Fedora.
Same here, Fedora, in particular, once atomic, I’m never looking back on my machines.
Before that I once used Endeavour and can vouch for its reliability
Nice enjoyable little read. Now I kinda know what omarchy is. TL;DR it’s not a distro. It’s a pile of user scripts on Arch, doing things, who knows what.
Bad choices for included software too. I see preinstalled proprietary bloat as a dick move but I could get behind Steam, which is not preinstalled, unlike Discord, Zoom, WhatsApp and Google Drive! Not to mention the AI BS.
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Just bad politics, or straight-up Nazi?
he’s openly a white supremacist
And that’s all anyone seems to care about. You don’t hear this shit for all the other assholes in FOSS. Only DHH. It’s embarrassing.
Other FOSS people don’t tend to get loads of money from Cloudflare or all this attention for what’s not even that interesting a project.
The Ladybird project is also run by someone who’s said some bad things but it hasn’t exploded in popularity or received 6 figures in corporate donations. Something feels off about this Omarchy hype… like, the product isn’t even that amazing, so the only thing I imagine could explain this difference is that it’s DHH doing it.
I will see people do this for other FLOSS developers, and I think it’s bad in those cases too. I don’t want to name them because I feel like that’s not worth the effort and frankly we shouldn’t give any attention to complaints about a dev’s personal opinions or character.
By contrast, I respect the critiques of his actual software, which mostly seem to be fair. I do wonder how much people would even be looking into it if they didn’t have strong opinions about his opinions, but as long as it’s accurate that’s what matters.
@[email protected]’s comment shares 2 succinct links why.