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Stock Fedora or nearly all the other Linux distributions are a thousand times more stable and secure than Omarachy is.

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

Well I guess that's the problem with

> getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions

> Published on 2025-10-22 and updated on 2025-11-08

Article is very outdated.

This is not a distro. It's a masterpiece in trolling.

It's a top to bottom approach. Get the UI/UX working, make incredible marketing, sort out the technical foundation later. Excellent executed from a strategic point of view. Let's see if Arch is the best foundation for such a project. I don't know.

Personally, I hope, Debian isn't shutting the door on LLM-supported coding to improve their legacy tooling. I believe we have a very short window to use almost-free LLM fixing internal debt and outstanding issues with our FOSS setup.

Over the past 30 years I have witnessed multiple approaches to try and capture the normies. Ubuntu was the first one to try and market a "just works" approach, introducing a graphical package manager that looked like the play store or apple store; Mint was trying to clone the Windows or MacOS appearance. Then there was the Compiz frenzy, that was selling graphical features as eye candies. They all had their reason to exist.

Omarchy, on the other hand, is this close to be a scam: marketed as "the AI distro" just because it has a keyboard shortcut to launch claude-code or codex basically. "opinionated" because it ships with a default desktop manager and a default text editor, just like any other freaking distro out there. Not to mention the fact that it's financed by people who have nothing to do with FOSS.

> marketed as "the AI distro"

Where?

the tag line for the distro on it's home page.

> Beautiful, Fun & Agentic Linux

'agentic' linux

As far as I see Omarchy is not meant for everybody but for developers. Not a general purpose distro that copies Windows or Mac like functions. I remember MacOS becoming relevant for developers in 2002/3 long time before it became mainstream (again). By putting money behind it, they could indeed put pressure on some features currently missing in other OS and distro.

I'm a fan of omakase computing but in an "install stock fedora or debian" sense. I find the maintainers have great taste. I'm not sure any more ink needs to be spilt than that.

DHH had been anti AI first. Then he got a board seat at Shopify. Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation.

Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in.

Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI when it comes to unemployment: Everyone but snowboarders (Lütke) and "race car drivers" (DHH) should be unemployed regardless of skin color! True equality!

Almost everyone was anti AI first until they a) found out about agents b) found out about how to deal with halluciation and context management c) best practices in tests, prompts, skills.

Last year I wrote a gist to collect tweets to record the approximate date when known industry people made the change https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/133d6aaf759ee9341bea0029f03bd...

Seems wrong that this post is flagged.

I was humbly going to posit same, but given the vitriol apparent against the publisher, it is symptomatic of something, I guess. The points downthread make for an informative read, pro-against.-

And what do you know? The vector-database-for-AI publisher recommends omarchy-for-AI:

https://xcancel.com/antirez/status/2090354253743177866

This is all purely organic.

> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch.

Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some closed source platform or whatever the author is up to, you probably want it to sound like Linux forces you to know everything about everything, so you can sell your service to the people who don't want that. Good luck I guess.

This reads as a blogpost from someone who is mad at Linux for some reason, yet cannot fully describe why?

He's talking about Linux neckbeards and gatekeepers, not, say, cultural idiosyncrasies of any given distro.

None of them, at least the one's I've encountered in my 20 something years, have had the idea of "everyone has to know everything about all tools", although they've certainly been annoying in other ways.

There's some hyperbole but his point is obvious to me from hanging out in forums and IRC channels over the years, or reading snarky "umm, I'm confused...?" quote-tweets for certain Omarchy posts about how Omarchy is just quickshell hyprland rice.

I used to use an old omakase version of Debian called Crunchbang in uni (https://crunchbang.org/) and there was always someone around to make the remark that you'd only use it if you couldn't read manpages.

Or Dropbox seems pointless because you can build it trivially by mounting an ftp location with curlftpfs + svn.

This is so true and one of the reasons why I think the "Linux Desktop" will always fail as long as it's marketed as "Linux Desktop".

There's a clear market for "good enough" Linux boxes for coders and casual Chromebook-style usage (Steam Machine style) that's constantly bullied by the "you should read the manpage before posting" crowd.

Yeah... KDE, GNOME and soon COSMIC will be fine for most people. Ricing IS fun but this is more similar to taking a kitted out car that used to belong to your cousin to the car meet, part of the culture is stumbling around forums and asking around. There's been stuff in the past like Regolith that did similar things but now a semi-famous person is spearheading this so everybody wooos and ahhhs.

Yes, I am salty.

>> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools,

That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.

I guess that's why he's not saying that to mechanics and artists

> Ruby-on-Rails fanboi

Lol. The author is the creator of Rails

Lol, he should try signing his post, literally had no idea! Thought it was weird to fanboi so much over someone else's framework, but now it totally makes sense, DHH has a tendency to toot his own horn a lot.

Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.

I watched the same and I didn’t hear any marketing speak. He’s excited about his ideas, puts in the work and genuinely trying to make Linux accessible.

About calling Mac trash, I think he should have added “for engineers”. I like/use macOS and Omarchy both and they are meant for different audiences.

the ~only reason I don't have a macbook in active rotation currently is feeling burnt by the terminal experience on my last go-round. I admit to not having recent experience (~5-7 years) - maybe it's gotten better?

> talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”.

DHH has always been a contrarian who speaks highly confidently in extremes. He does well in topics where he can show up and act like a beacon of sane and helpful takes in a world where everyone other than him is wrong.

Some times he’ll find a clear wedge topic and hook his message to that, appealing to people on one side of the wedge.

At other times he’ll manufacture some strawman arguments and present them as indisputable facts that he’s revealing to you, dear listener, as a trusted guide who has seen the light.

His sudden flip to being anti-Mac after years of being pro-Mac follows the pattern. He had some small real grievance at some point and saw an opportunity to become known for Omarchy, so he flipped to extreme takes like “Macs are complete trash” and saying weird things like how they can’t be used for agents.

> His sudden flip to being anti-Mac after years of being pro-Mac follows the pattern

I mean, I used Mac on ~every machine i touched for about a decade, got annoyed and haven't touched one in ~5 years now. It's not unheard of.

I love Omakase, but not because I don’t know what I want.

It is because I want to experience an artist’s work.

It is 2026 and you can still sell the old "my opinionated Linux distribution" to cult members and investors. DHH is laughing all the way to the bank.

Omarchy is AI slop from an outspoken racist. Use a real distro.

racist? how?

https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... here's a quick primer, if you're asking in good faith.

DHH means this is, for me, a hard pass.

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