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
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.
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.
This matches my experience exactly.
Omarchy is too close to oligarchy. Pass.
I had to check if this was linuxshitpost or something.
Don’t support or amplify fascists.
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.
marketing, and the end of days
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
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.
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
