of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
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From Omarchy's site:
malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!
Wtf
All seven users.
Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There's many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It's don't understand.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
to fix issues and errors
and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.
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"popular distribution"? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
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1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.
Except... ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.
Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn't.
Art / artist.
As bad as the "Nazi bar" problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it's a good thing.
Out of the loop... "Nazi bar"?
"popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy."
I've literally never heard of it.
I've seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There's definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It's just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that's been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they're familiar with Arch.
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It's yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.
The fact that it's being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.
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Damnit. I just found out about Omarchy and was thinking about trying it out. Not anymore.
Cachyos will forever be the ideal Arch distro for nerds who want the benefits of Arch without the hassle of Arch (until they support some giant racist or soemthing)
Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."
I didn't know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn't many users?
I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.
Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.
It's probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don't pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.
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How the fuck is Omarchy "popular"? I've been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.
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I already wasn't gonna use either, but now I'm not gonna use either even harder.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
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1Password says "Our contribution is made to the Omacom Foundation, not to an individual" but there are many instances of their VP of product praising DHH https://x.com/jmeller/status/1971530423030387081 https://x.com/jmeller/status/2094132068342964671
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PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
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I'm so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I've never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.
No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.
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I wouldn't have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
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Maybe I should sell my dotfiles? 🤔
Why I use KeyPass -- which is FOSS -- instead of entrusting everything to a privately-run paid website which can turn against everyone at anytime.
edit: to that wiseacre below, do you think it's better to go back to passwords in a notepad? 🤣
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I've emailed their customer service explaining why I'll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
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Well damn, guess I'll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?
KeePass + Syncthing
Completely local vault in sync with however many endpoints you need
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