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.
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.
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?
Don’t forget that DHH is a rascist piece of shit.
I had to check if this was linuxshitpost or something.
Don’t support or amplify fascists.
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
Omarchy is too close to oligarchy. Pass.
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.
marketing, and the end of days
Here’s an article on The Register. I haven’t read through all of this just yet, but this might give you a pretty decent picture:
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/27/omarchy-distro-gains-serious-backing/5293026
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.
Popularity is increasingly necessary to be able to actually use the OS. Hardware is constantly evolving, you need to keep up with everything from the new CPU architectures to the boot environment to drivers. Software is constantly evolving (worsening) too, if you want to interact with the web you need to be able to run a modern browser. Without popularity, there will be neither volunteers nor coprorate donors to do all this monumental work.
If corporate involvement is a bigger issue for you than usability, GNU Guix/Hurd is always there for you. I have it set up on an old laptop, it is kinda fun in a way but not really usable for anything.
