Me searching distrowatch for new hopping. Found Omarchy, read it’s a single Dev, leave immediately.
Shitty hard right rich douche put together dotfiles for arch, called it a distro, and was given lots of money from 1password.
DHH being a hard right rich douche is not news, but 1password giving $300k to aforementioned hard right asswipe is recent news.
Thats a reasonable summary IMO.
It’s a new pre-configured hyprland/arch distro, that raised $15 million dollars somehow. The founder of Omarchy is DHH, the creator of Ruby-on-rails.
The distro is probably AI/vibe-coding, setup to give LLM agents easy access to the system. Some of the previously mentioned $15 million is actually in the form of donated AI credits to code the distro with.
The distro has some controversial decisions like bundling Spotify and Zoom into the install, when Linux (and especially arch) is known for low bloat and user choice.
Some of the money they’ve raised is going to Vaxry the dev of Hyprland. There are various opinions on this, a lot of people like hyprland but Vaxry is kinda insane polish dude obsessed with anime porn.
Overall I think most people care because it’s a lot of money raised for a distro, especially when people disagree with the developmental decisions and goals. People would rather see that money go to other places, and are questioning why so many companies were willing to sponsor Omarchy specifically.
The founder of Omarchy is DHH, the creator of Ruby-on-rails.
Oh, I remember that guy. He sucks. Of course big tech is giving him money to make a dodgy linux.
Now I feel so learned. Thanks!
The other part is that DHH has a reputation as a fascist. The fact that he, of all people, is receiving a ton of money for his half-assed Linux distro makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
Thank you for this in depth reply rather than the standard non-informative circlejerk comments that only fuel the curiosity, and thereby, the attention.
