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i don't understand why DHH is shipping so much bloat in omarchy. The better solution would be to ask if user wants to install bloatware during installation.

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DHH created a distro for what he personally needs for work, and his company uses Zoom.

It's that simple.

There are far better ways to handle setting up a workstation for one's needs than spinning a new distro.

Perfect example of a usecase for nixOS. Single file and its got everything DHH wants.

Thats pretty good, then he should have made a toolkit for building and rolling your own badass distro and not a "opinionated" "omakase" system that claims to solve all of deskop linux while personally mocking a lot of people that actually have made real contributions as "clowns".

His tone is horrible. Because he implies untrue things while being 100% certain. He will paint entire communities as against omarchy when it’s just a couple left wing members with a stupid take. It doesn’t help the distribution is just … not that good.

Yeah, he also doesn't seem to separate those of us that hate omarchy because its a stupid distro from those of us that hate omarchy because of the authors annoying political loudness. It's a convenient tool though, label all the detractors as hating him for political reasons when the distro is objectively kinda pointless.

dhh understands what a good user experience is. Installing in a couple minutes and getting right into it is an amazing start compared to most operating systems that take ages to setup.

Plus, many pre-installs (like Zoom) are web-apps that take no space (30 lines of text) and are easy to remove if you don't want them in the menu.

Have you… used any other Linux distributions at all? For longer than a month? Respectfully. The thing DHH killed was demoing Omarchy most stuff is in other distros out of the box. And like installing in a couple minutes is table stakes.

Have you used any of the popular distros? They all ship with loads of bloatware by default

Like what???? I don’t revolt at anything pre-installed on fedora.

And arch Linux specifically ships with nothing!

6GB is 3x larger than most other distros. It is kind of mental.

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