Regardless of everyone’s opinions, myself included… One thing’s for certain: this is a masterclass in fund raising. How the hell is he pulling it off ?
He’s exploiting the AI craze. And is himself a wealthy and connected individual. Also he’s including essentially ads in the OS. Which is exactly the type of thing people leave Windows for.
working toward full integration with the Chinese services people depend on
This feel potentially hellish…
Even more sadness for me, I actually liked Omarchy when I first learned about it as a Linux noob. But I hear there’s other ways of achieving the same functionalities, so I’ll be looking into that once I find time.
I really wish I was spineless enough to just start throwing around half arsed projects and beg for millions of funding whenever a craze comes around… fuck I’d be a millionaire by now. easy peasy.
I always thought if I was a complete PoS that I would start either a health fad or a religion… Both excellent ways to get rich selling bullshit.
He appeals to the worst in some very influential people, basically “Get in the car losers, we’re going Naziing”. And all these rich people just happen to have a deep seated urge to go Naziing that societal ethics hasn’t allowed them to explore before, so they just give him all their money.
That, and in a quid pro quo for their investment they’ll obviously expect DHH to be even more of a Nazi than he has previously been. There, that’s his “masterclass”. Still impressed?
it’s all about who you know.
Voldemort?
By finally giving Linux an acceptable, i.e. racist, capitalist, face.
Corporations like dealing with corporations. I think this is it. Linux land is otherwise inhabited by peasant folk who do stuff for free and for fun.
Linux land has been inhabited by big dogs like Canonical and Red Hat for a while, and it probably wouldn’t have picked up the enthusiasm it has from companies over the years without the likes of them. So agree that corps like the safety provided by other corps, but it’s not like this new one is the only offering.
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DHH is not a corporation, and he seems to be making Omarchy for free and fun
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Over 80% of Linux kernel developers are employed by corporations. 2024 Open Source Software Funding Report estimated a $7.7 billion funding per year by organizations, with 86% of that being the salary or contract payments of developers
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Yes DHH is a person. But he is also a business guy so the point still stands.
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And userland for desktop really isn’t
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He uses the word Agentic
If you Heil Hitler a lot, you get part of the riches they hid in Switzerland I guess.
People can be competent independent of their political views.
Seeing his work on Omarchy, i would definitely not call DHH competent at all lmao. It’s a lot of hyprland configs and way too many (probably mostly unvetted) aur packages.
Not only that, but there are some glaring security mistakes in the configuration. There is a deep dive from last year: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy (I hope they fixed some of this stuff)
But the core of this “distro” is a bunch of bash scripts that do a curl to somewhere instead of proper packaging.
It is a 101 on how not to install Arch linux.
_Citation needed _
omfg this cannot be happening… how is this happening? Are they all getting fomo from not giving money or something?
This is all good and well, but does it matter? Are people switching to a distro because it is well funded? And even if they do, will they stick around? To me, this looks like a little money furnace that will shut down the moment the cash stops coming in.
So far I know zero people who have even considered switching to this this slop stain of an operating system.
I know one person - the one who recommended it to me.
The premise was interesting. The execution? As you’ve said, slop.
You could get the same done by installing Arch, Claude Code or Codex, and a $20 subscription, plus about a day’s worth of tinkering- which you’d still do on Omarchy to get it working as you want it to…
Hopefully this all keeps being open source so the leftovers could be reused, for the benefit of other projects.
No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they’ll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.
They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don’t see what’s in it for themselves.
They could get $3B for all I care, I’ll never use it.
How has this disto done so well? It’s just some dude’s personal preferences for arch packaged up with some pretty ASCII art.
I hope Arch is getting some funding from this some how…
I remember reading somewhere that DHH offered them money but they politely declined.
So I guess we cannot whine anymore that he doesn’t give money upstream.
Alright this is getting out of hand.
How is it that nobody understands that NixOS is the ideal agentic OS.
It’s declarative. It can become whatever you want just by tacking an include to a minimal configuration.nix.
I have a laptop set up right now that is headless until you tell an agent what kind of computer it should be.
Fascists helping a fascist. What a shock
I keep wondering where all the left leaning billionaires are. Why can’t they use their money for political and project influence, like the far right ones do?
It’s literally impossible to become a billionaire if you have morals and empathy.
Hmm, I disagree, somebody could inherit that money and they don’t necessarily have to share the political opinions of their parents. Famously Elongated Musketeer’s children all hate him.
But also what about the non billionaires?
Why don’t all the billions of left leaning people worldwide donate 1$ each to a fund that serves their agenda in politics and tech?
I know it’s happening on a smaller scale, but why can it not be a strong and concentrated push like what is happening with the fascists?
If there was a push of all of us doing it, I would eagerly donate hundreds of $ per month to a left leaning, anti AI linux distro and the same amount for an organization like “WEF but not fascist”.
But every time I donate to something like that it has no tangible effect, because the couple of people that do it with me are not enough.
