money’s a hell of a drug
His distros is just arch with some packages and dotfiles on top. Why does he think anyone would base their distro off his?
It also has security issues as a feature constantly being pushed to users based on ai doing pr reviews and automatically merge and push stuff to users.
Go ask Framework, Cloudflare, Dell et al why they stick their money up his ass.
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
Framework is not mentioned there. The list of patrons doesn’t mention Framework either.
I guess he sucked the right dicks
right dicks
in more than one way
My question is why are people still listening to this dude and doing so on a platform that rivals 4chan in hate?
Some people love to rage argue
That’s literally the point of Shitter. People just want to fight and scream to others that have a different opinion than they.
I’m kind of disturbed by how much attention Omarchy is getting; two different people at work talked it up to me over the past 2 days, and I didn’t think either of them were big Linux fans.
The alt right <-> social media recruiting pipeline is alive, running well and always expanding
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
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.
So basically Hannah Montana Linux, but racist. Got it.
Hannah Montana Linux is not vibecoded. It’s art!
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
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:
- tommy robinson is not a politician, he’s a ufc fighter and far-right activist who led a march against immigrants in 2025. there were fights involved.
- dhh recently got a shitload of money ($10M+) from the likes of dell, framework, mozilla etc to keep developing his config files.
- literally everything in omarchy is ai generated to some degree.
Their list of “patrons” is here, and Mozilla and Framework aren’t on it.
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.
I have no idea what omarchy is but based on the response for the community I don’t think it’s worth me learning about.
Just for informational reason, because yes, it’s bullshit you don’t need to think about even without the insanity of the people involved:
It’s basically just an installer for archlinux and a management tool for configuration and dot files. And on top of it it’s all vibe coded with claude…
Do u want Linux to win or do u want to virtue message. Who fucking cares what his political stance is he is pushing the frontier on Linux adoption. Take the fucking win and let him cook.
Getting in bed with Nazi’s regardless of the benefits is an unacceptable stance in a decent society. I have not personally vetted if this guy is a nazi or not, but the claims that he are stand up more easily than the hyprland hate but I really need to do my own deep dive into both of these to speak more.
The point remains, Linux at any cost should not be the stance of our or any groups. Especially if that cost is funding or supporting people or movements that hurt, hate, and/or kill people based on immutable features.
The only thing I care about is achieving the goals I wish to achieve. The means by which these goals are achieved is irrelevant.
I am quite happy to be allies with anyone in area A and give zero regards for what they support in area B. I believe in ideas not people and if you are advancing the ideas I support I will support you in this endeavour.
Also he really isn’t a Nazi. He doesn’t want to genocide people. The word Nazi no longer has any meaning because it has been so eroded by people using it to describe anyone to the right of wherever the accusatory person.
He’s pushing actual excrement out of his ass. There is nothing desirable about having omarchy as a front entrance for desktop linux in the mainstream. This thin-ass AI generated veneer over arch linux has some people playing defense for this racist, like his political stance is the only thing wrong here. Fuck every wannabe tech influencer who pushed this garbage and all the noobs who keep acting like there’s anything of value to preserve by acting like it doesn’t matter that he’s a dipshit.
He’s pushing actual excrement out of his ass.
Source?
There is nothing desirable about having omarchy as a front entrance for desktop linux in the mainstream.
Its a reliable simple introduction that maintains the freedom of foss. People don’t care about the technicals as long as it just works.
This thin-ass AI generated veneer over arch linux
Linus himself has called anyone universally opposing AI a troglodyte. The whole point of FOSS is that it grants people liberty over their software. The exact liberty that he is practising.
like his political stance is the only thing wrong here.
Alright give me a breakdown of what is technically wrong. I’m open to a technical ncritique but that requires j actually provide one.
Fuck every wannabe tech influencer who pushed this garbage and all the noobs who keep acting like there’s anything of value to preserve by acting like it doesn’t matter that he’s a dipshit.
Elitist as fuck. Just cos we know how to use a command line doesn’t mean everyone does let alone even cares too. If their is nothing of value to preserve why you arguing against it? Why not let it prove itself valueless? The only reason you are seething over this is because it is providing value but simply in a way you don’t like.
This isn’t normal delusion, this is “I know the future because the voices told me” delusion.
Well I didn’t think you could make ubuntu worse but apparently I was wrong, this would surely make it worse.
