Alright, maybe I'm just "old school" but I do NOT get the hype for this OS. It looks nice and has "strong opinions" about specific things but...could you not just do most of this yourself with any...
Alright, maybe I'm just "old school" but I do NOT get the hype for this OS. It looks nice and has "strong opinions" about specific things but...could you not just do most of this yourself with any old distro? Is it just a nice riced out desktop? Any of the media I have seen for this distro just leaves me to trying to understand the hype.
For context I'm like a 15 year Nix user. Cut my teeth on Debian-based distros and a couple years back switched to NixOS. I have opinions about LInux stuff but nothing militant lol
Is this just a way for AI companies to funnel money into a distro to try and have their models being a bigger priority for usage in said distro? I know feck-all about DHH but saw part of his Ruby World talk and thought the guys was on drugs.
My impression is the hype is some people being very big fans of DHH himself rather than the distro being groundbreaking. It’s being marketed as a “free speech” AI welcome Linux distro without the...
My impression is the hype is some people being very big fans of DHH himself rather than the distro being groundbreaking.
It’s being marketed as a “free speech” AI welcome Linux distro without the blue-haired open source lot. Now to me and many others this is quite a repulsive way to market a Linux distro but you can see how it’s gained traction and attention from some.
Ahh so it's like the Mike Tyson grill but a Linux distro. Weird. Would you be able to explain the blue-haired comment more? Like is this some kinda anti-woke Nix distro? This whole thing is just...
Ahh so it's like the Mike Tyson grill but a Linux distro. Weird.
Would you be able to explain the blue-haired comment more? Like is this some kinda anti-woke Nix distro? This whole thing is just so odd to me lol
To put it plainly, DHH believes that the open source community is “too woke”. He probably holds some resentment that he has been banned from RailsCon despite creating rails because of his racist...
To put it plainly, DHH believes that the open source community is “too woke”. He probably holds some resentment that he has been banned from RailsCon despite creating rails because of his racist posting.
Omarchy is more him creating a space for himself and people like him rather than an actual technical achievement.
Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even...
could you not just do most of this yourself with any old distro?
Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even with heavy LLM usage.
That said, I haven't tried it myself, and possibly never will. But it's not honest to say that it's nothing.
Context: been a Linux user for 30 years, also spent some of it developing one of the major ones.
Is this just a way for AI companies to funnel money into a distro to try and have their models being a bigger priority for usage in said distro?
I think they're just excited and hence motivated about things happening on their side of the political fence. Whatever that side is.
Plus, a lot (all?) of them written by LLMs, which one could argue doesn't mean they're necessarily bad, but I doubt all of them were proper reviewed before merging.
Plus, a lot (all?) of them written by LLMs, which one could argue doesn't mean they're necessarily bad, but I doubt all of them were proper reviewed before merging.
I attempted to use it on a virtual machine and it was the worst distro experience I ever had, the iso itself is bloated, it took multiple attempts to even boot, 30 mins of installation, not sure...
I attempted to use it on a virtual machine and it was the worst distro experience I ever had, the iso itself is bloated, it took multiple attempts to even boot, 30 mins of installation, not sure if it was something bad with my virtual machine, and then it kept getting stuck after login.
I also watched a video of someone hyping it like it changed his life, he went from saying "the distro is extremely lean, to some seconds later say that includes zoom and steam by default", to me is such a bizarre combination to have those defaults
Last week, honestly I'm not sure if I was doing anything wrong, I think it's because it comes with some drivers preinstalled that might cause issues with UTM. I didn't have the same issues with...
Last week, honestly I'm not sure if I was doing anything wrong, I think it's because it comes with some drivers preinstalled that might cause issues with UTM.
I didn't have the same issues with other distros like nixos or alpine with the same virtual machine configuration.
I don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more...
Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even with heavy LLM usage.
I don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more polished than for example Fedora and Gnome, both rock-solid foundations, especially since Gnome is fairly polished as far as open DEs go?
Gnome has had more work done on it, in some sense over several decades, so it's of course more polished. I feel like you're arguing against something I didn't say.
Gnome has had more work done on it, in some sense over several decades, so it's of course more polished. I feel like you're arguing against something I didn't say.
The comment I replied to suggested that what Omarchy adds could be done by any individual by just writing configuration. That's the idea I was challenging.
The comment I replied to suggested that what Omarchy adds could be done by any individual by just writing configuration. That's the idea I was challenging.
Wowza, I had no idea it was that popular. I mean, easy for me to miss. I stopped distro hoping years ago. Thanks for the additional info. Glad about the security researcher too. One of the first...
Wowza, I had no idea it was that popular. I mean, easy for me to miss. I stopped distro hoping years ago. Thanks for the additional info.
Glad about the security researcher too. One of the first things I heard about was a really bad vuln and a bunch of people calling it vibecoded. I don't think the distro is for me based on some other people added context but if it is so popular I'm at least a little bit happy (for the users) that security seems to be getting taken more seriously.
Everything about Omarchy just weirds me out, especially considering it's a "first linux" for so many "tech bros". Like, Arch, with its rolling release scheme, is probably the last place to start...
Everything about Omarchy just weirds me out, especially considering it's a "first linux" for so many "tech bros". Like, Arch, with its rolling release scheme, is probably the last place to start if you're new to Linux, but what do I know.
First I hear of this OS, so the hype seems to have passed me by, until now. "If the application you need doesn't exist, have your OS create it for you" is a pretty cool approach. Will it work?...
First I hear of this OS, so the hype seems to have passed me by, until now. "If the application you need doesn't exist, have your OS create it for you" is a pretty cool approach. Will it work? Probably somewhat? Just never look under the hood! In any case, it's nice that it's Linux and not Windows that might be the first big vibe-first OS. Maybe it will make a dent in the market share of Windows. Personally I'll never use anything powered by Grok.
Grok 4.7 and beyond will be helping power our automated agents, like Omabot, who’s been reviewing the flood of PRs that keep pouring in. And it has its work cut out. We’re closing in on 7,000 pull requests from more than 550 contributors, and every one of them deserves a proper look. That’s not a job for mere humans!
On my project at work we're currently 4 backend developers. Of those, only me is actually hired by the company, while the three others are consultants. AI has made all of them more productive, but as the person who's going to maintain this software for possibly the rest of my life, I do my best to keep an overview of how the software actually does and what new code is added, and that means sooooo many pull requests. Pull requests are 100% a job for mere humans! Unless we want it all to turn into a black box no-one knows what actually does.
(Some days it feels like all I do is pull requests, and on those days I consider moving to the Arctic to become a turnip farmer.)
And given where they’re headed, there’s a real chance we’ll soon be consuming tokens beamed down from data centers in space.
lol
Maybe Musk can use all that space AI to make his self driving cars work.
His track record of lies - just on this topic! - is much richer than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk We should have already been...
His track record of lies - just on this topic! - is much richer than that:
The fact that Wikipedia editors allowed this through is both hilarious (as in, this is a funny article) and upsetting (god, this dude lies so much we have to document it).
The fact that Wikipedia editors allowed this through is both hilarious (as in, this is a funny article) and upsetting (god, this dude lies so much we have to document it).
I wish we would all stop talking omarchy. It's a nothing project, bringing nothing new or interesting into the world. I had another exec the other day ask me if I was going to try and listed off a...
I wish we would all stop talking omarchy. It's a nothing project, bringing nothing new or interesting into the world.
I had another exec the other day ask me if I was going to try and listed off a bunch of shit that it "has", that effectively was like yes, of all the distros, truly, this is one of them.
Not to mention I currently run NixOS, and moving off it to something less replicable would be just laughably stupid at this point.
It's a shame that DHH is an unrepentant racist asshole. Birds of a feather flock together, I suppose.
Oh, well, fuck that guy. And fuck reading anything he writes.
Yeah, just look at the list of sponsors for the project…
Fascist Linux gets a donation from the Fascist LLM. Color me unsurprised.
Alright, maybe I'm just "old school" but I do NOT get the hype for this OS. It looks nice and has "strong opinions" about specific things but...could you not just do most of this yourself with any old distro? Is it just a nice riced out desktop? Any of the media I have seen for this distro just leaves me to trying to understand the hype.
For context I'm like a 15 year Nix user. Cut my teeth on Debian-based distros and a couple years back switched to NixOS. I have opinions about LInux stuff but nothing militant lol
Is this just a way for AI companies to funnel money into a distro to try and have their models being a bigger priority for usage in said distro? I know feck-all about DHH but saw part of his Ruby World talk and thought the guys was on drugs.
My impression is the hype is some people being very big fans of DHH himself rather than the distro being groundbreaking.
It’s being marketed as a “free speech” AI welcome Linux distro without the blue-haired open source lot. Now to me and many others this is quite a repulsive way to market a Linux distro but you can see how it’s gained traction and attention from some.
Ahh so it's like the Mike Tyson grill but a Linux distro. Weird.
Would you be able to explain the blue-haired comment more? Like is this some kinda anti-woke Nix distro? This whole thing is just so odd to me lol
To put it plainly, DHH believes that the open source community is “too woke”. He probably holds some resentment that he has been banned from RailsCon despite creating rails because of his racist posting.
Omarchy is more him creating a space for himself and people like him rather than an actual technical achievement.
Too woke is laughable, what an absolute boner.
Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even with heavy LLM usage.
That said, I haven't tried it myself, and possibly never will. But it's not honest to say that it's nothing.
Context: been a Linux user for 30 years, also spent some of it developing one of the major ones.
I think they're just excited and hence motivated about things happening on their side of the political fence. Whatever that side is.
They also hired a security lead and announced a $100K security bug bounty program. https://omarchy.org/news/2026/10/omarchy-launches-bug-bounty-program-on-hackerone/
I would (politely) caution against equating commit count with level of polish.
Plus, a lot (all?) of them written by LLMs, which one could argue doesn't mean they're necessarily bad, but I doubt all of them were proper reviewed before merging.
Omarchy is the opposite of "polished"
Is that what you feel or what you have witnessed? Genuine question since like I said I haven't tried it myself.
I attempted to use it on a virtual machine and it was the worst distro experience I ever had, the iso itself is bloated, it took multiple attempts to even boot, 30 mins of installation, not sure if it was something bad with my virtual machine, and then it kept getting stuck after login.
I also watched a video of someone hyping it like it changed his life, he went from saying "the distro is extremely lean, to some seconds later say that includes zoom and steam by default", to me is such a bizarre combination to have those defaults
How did they manage to do that? When did you try it?
Last week, honestly I'm not sure if I was doing anything wrong, I think it's because it comes with some drivers preinstalled that might cause issues with UTM.
I didn't have the same issues with other distros like nixos or alpine with the same virtual machine configuration.
I don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more polished than for example Fedora and Gnome, both rock-solid foundations, especially since Gnome is fairly polished as far as open DEs go?
Gnome has had more work done on it, in some sense over several decades, so it's of course more polished. I feel like you're arguing against something I didn't say.
I was specifically confused what you were trying to say.
The comment I replied to suggested that what Omarchy adds could be done by any individual by just writing configuration. That's the idea I was challenging.
Thank you for clarifying!
Wowza, I had no idea it was that popular. I mean, easy for me to miss. I stopped distro hoping years ago. Thanks for the additional info.
Glad about the security researcher too. One of the first things I heard about was a really bad vuln and a bunch of people calling it vibecoded. I don't think the distro is for me based on some other people added context but if it is so popular I'm at least a little bit happy (for the users) that security seems to be getting taken more seriously.
Everything about Omarchy just weirds me out, especially considering it's a "first linux" for so many "tech bros". Like, Arch, with its rolling release scheme, is probably the last place to start if you're new to Linux, but what do I know.
First I hear of this OS, so the hype seems to have passed me by, until now. "If the application you need doesn't exist, have your OS create it for you" is a pretty cool approach. Will it work? Probably somewhat? Just never look under the hood! In any case, it's nice that it's Linux and not Windows that might be the first big vibe-first OS. Maybe it will make a dent in the market share of Windows. Personally I'll never use anything powered by Grok.
On my project at work we're currently 4 backend developers. Of those, only me is actually hired by the company, while the three others are consultants. AI has made all of them more productive, but as the person who's going to maintain this software for possibly the rest of my life, I do my best to keep an overview of how the software actually does and what new code is added, and that means sooooo many pull requests. Pull requests are 100% a job for mere humans! Unless we want it all to turn into a black box no-one knows what actually does.
(Some days it feels like all I do is pull requests, and on those days I consider moving to the Arctic to become a turnip farmer.)
lol
Maybe Musk can use all that space AI to make his self driving cars work.
We're right around the corner from FSD, it will be coming soon. - E. Musk c2016
His track record of lies - just on this topic! - is much richer than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk
We should have already been on Mars for 1-6 years too.
The fact that Wikipedia editors allowed this through is both hilarious (as in, this is a funny article) and upsetting (god, this dude lies so much we have to document it).
I wish we would all stop talking omarchy. It's a nothing project, bringing nothing new or interesting into the world.
I had another exec the other day ask me if I was going to try and listed off a bunch of shit that it "has", that effectively was like yes, of all the distros, truly, this is one of them.
Not to mention I currently run NixOS, and moving off it to something less replicable would be just laughably stupid at this point.