Can someone give a little background? The Omarchy website just says opinionated and the frequently asked questions just seems like it’s an arch distro with some stuff slapped on and then some word salad? What is the actual point of this distro besides being “beautiful” witches pretty common these days anyway. Someone mentioned the guy is a racist. I’m not sure what his goal even is truly or why anyone would contribute to this versus any of the long-standing distros
Tried to go down the rabbithole one why everyone us making noise about this guy / his distro.
Spolier: the hole is not deep at all. Ol’ boy took ArchLinux, pre-configured a bunch of things to be ready to roll out the box in a nice (?) looking format.
Guy behind it (DHH) did some car racing and runs a tech company as well as having made some neat (if not exactly widely well regarded - Ruby on Rails) tools.
All the above is pretty low severity on the reasons to not like the guy, imo. Real reason for the hate appears to be that he was actively supportive of a far-right British politician and helped with the anti-immigrant protests in 2025.
I’m not familiar the with politician he supported (Tommy Robinson) nor with that batch of protests, so maybe my nonchalance is understating the issue. To me the headline should read “Elon Musk wannabe tried to say he’s like Elon Musk. Internet left in turmoil”.
omarchy is a 90% vibecoded set of dotfiles for arch that has such bad oversight that they somehow managed to ship a ton of security vulns using basically only configuration. dhh, who runs it, has a blog full of great replacement type shit on it. they recently got sponsored with 10 million dollars.
Man, I should start a racist blog, release a shitty ass linux distro, get a 10 million donation then go “SYKE!” and disappear, as anyone dumb enough to get in on that rightfully deserves all the backdoors
Can someone give a little background? The Omarchy website just says opinionated and the frequently asked questions just seems like it’s an arch distro with some stuff slapped on and then some word salad? What is the actual point of this distro besides being “beautiful” witches pretty common these days anyway. Someone mentioned the guy is a racist. I’m not sure what his goal even is truly or why anyone would contribute to this versus any of the long-standing distros
Tried to go down the rabbithole one why everyone us making noise about this guy / his distro.
Spolier: the hole is not deep at all. Ol’ boy took ArchLinux, pre-configured a bunch of things to be ready to roll out the box in a nice (?) looking format.
Guy behind it (DHH) did some car racing and runs a tech company as well as having made some neat (if not exactly widely well regarded - Ruby on Rails) tools.
All the above is pretty low severity on the reasons to not like the guy, imo. Real reason for the hate appears to be that he was actively supportive of a far-right British politician and helped with the anti-immigrant protests in 2025.
I’m not familiar the with politician he supported (Tommy Robinson) nor with that batch of protests, so maybe my nonchalance is understating the issue. To me the headline should read “Elon Musk wannabe tried to say he’s like Elon Musk. Internet left in turmoil”.
big things that are relevant:
even Mozilla??? fuck my life, can’t trust any organization these days
Edit: can’t find any source that says Mozilla funded Omarchy.
i could be misremembering. don’t trust me.
Their list of “patrons” is here, and Mozilla and Framework aren’t on it.
omarchy is a 90% vibecoded set of dotfiles for arch that has such bad oversight that they somehow managed to ship a ton of security vulns using basically only configuration. dhh, who runs it, has a blog full of great replacement type shit on it. they recently got sponsored with 10 million dollars.
Man, I should start a racist blog, release a shitty ass linux distro, get a 10 million donation then go “SYKE!” and disappear, as anyone dumb enough to get in on that rightfully deserves all the backdoors
So basically Hannah Montana Linux, but racist. Got it.
Hannah Montana Linux is not vibecoded. It’s art!