I think the best thing you can do is to ignore omarchy.
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Considering how often it's mentioned on Lemmy that's pretty hard tho...
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They passed a bunch on to Hyprland. Fuck all these transphobes and other bigoted right-wing assholes.
Actually, no. Fuck someone nice. Or don't; I'm not your mother.
Maybe you are 🫣 Jk, I do think hyprland is a nice WM. But man... The drama around it.
I mean, if you wa—oh, you were kidding. You could try some of the forks of sway. I've heard swayfx is pretty good.
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Nice comprehensive overview of why this piece of slop called a "distro" and its backers should be boycotted, thank you! Gives me even more motivation to finish up mine today.
Compiling a kernel? 😀
I'm making my own distro rn, announced it a week ago here and will likely release today or tomorrow! https://pu-239.org/ https://lemmy.ml/post/52307735
‘Oh come on!’ was my initial reaction, but I’ve read your website, and thought: ‘hey, that sounds nice!’
I’m not going to migrate all my Arch boxes (basically all my x86/64 boxes), but I may use it somewhere else, just to test the idea.
I loved the idea of Atomic Fedora, but it did not work seamlessly, and to my experience, it did the opposite: worse than a regular Fedora. I needed to babysit it, and also it didn’t auto switch the previous working system for me. Perhaps it’s me who missed something. As an idea, though, I think that’s what should click to a normie: you tell them to install this distro, get your handful of apps as Flatpaks and forget about the system, as it manages itself.
To keep this topic alive, let me ask you a question: how would you know what’s a working state, so you need to return to the previous one? Does it mean it didn’t boot, or anything else? Just yesterday, I had faced a weird issue: my old trusty MacBook Pro serving as a server now, had no WiFi (it has Ethernet port, but temporarily I cannot use it, so it’s wireless). The broadcom-wl driver switched to linux-headers, which I didn’t have installed. I don’t remember me changing anything, and fortunately that was an easy fix (with an external USB WiFi card): just install Linux headers, and it would rebuild itself. So I’m just curious whether it’s even possible to find out a stupid issue a normie user may face.
On the other hand, perhaps the distros like this are meant to be installed by someone skilled to then be used mostly unattended by a regular user.
‘Oh come on!’ was my initial reaction, but I’ve read your website, and thought: ‘hey, that sounds nice!’
Haha, I know I know, yet another Arch-based distro in this economy, but I really feel like this does fill a gap, thank you for your interest!
On the other hand, perhaps the distros like this are meant to be installed by someone skilled to then be used mostly unattended by a regular user.
My aim is to make this both appealing for the normie who just wants to use it like "SteamOS but with CachyOS speed" and run Flatpaks on it AND for the more experienced user who wants all the benefits of Arch but with a little more peace of mind.
how would you know what’s a working state, so you need to return to the previous one?
As the website explains, it automatically falls back to the last working state if it doesn't boot, but obviously it can't detect if something is messed up but still booting like in your example. In that case you just reboot and manually select the last working state (wip but kinda working already) just like a BTRFS snapshot, BUT it only rolls back the system itself, NOT your files. A BTRFS snapshot will also roll back your documents or whatever so my system, when it's stable and tested, will be superior in every way to BTRFS snapshots.
A BTRFS snapshot will also roll back your documents or whatever
Not necessarily. You can have your documents on one subvolume and the root system on another. I version and snapshot my root disk and home disk separately.
True, if you set it up out of the box with CachyOS it rolls the entire disk back, but I forgot that option was a thing, my bad!
Don't take it the wrong way, but if you "forget" such a basic thinkg, are you really suited for creating and maintaining a whole distro? Maybe you need a few years more experience first?
No offense taken, but I didn't use btrfs snapshots in a minute and spent 200 hours in the last 18 days working on my distro with a little less than adequate sleep due to my ADHD keeping me awake, thinking about what to implement next. Please cut me some slack haha
This looks amazing! Thank you for your contribution! :D <3
Good post, but I don't like the mention of people and things that are not related to Omarchy. It gives feelings of just personal opinion. It should stick to the cause of boycotting Omarchy.
Agreed. Also this entire presentation looks too much emotional. It should stick to an informal type of presentation to be taken seriously. Edit: Also I'm highly against lists of people to avoid. Discussed this again and again, as this comes up again and again with these topics. Extremely dangerous thing to do!
Never heard of Omarchy until people started criticizing it. Are you sure you're not just giving them free advertising?
Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now. Immoral behavior should be challenged as widely and publicly as necessary to make everyone aware that it's inappropriate. People don't stop doing immoral things unless there are social consequences for it.
Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away
EXACTLY. This is what I'm responding (in other words) to "free advertisement" argument as well.
Thing is, they launched with a lot of hype and investor money. The criticism is an entirely valid reaction to counter DHH's narrative around the (lazy spin off an existing) OS.
Are you sure you’re not just giving them free advertising?
No, this is critique and enlightenment. It's important to talk about issues people have.
I get the feeling that most of the fediverse is left-leaning, so I don't think it'll be an issue.
Neocities? I thought that was dead
You might be thinking about Geocities, it died in 2009. Neocities was inspired by Geocities but is a separate project launched in 2013.
Ah, that explains it
In their words they are open source, donation funded, zero advertising, zero ai data selling place to create free websites. A "social network of 1,751,700 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We offer free static web hosting and tools that allow you to create your own web site."
As the other comment explained already, you was thinking of Geocities. I actually recently put Neocities to my list of web hosters, in case I want to do something with it. Seems quiet nice and is a homage to Geocities.
Snake Plisskin? I heard you were dead.
I rewatched Escape from New York half a year back and oh boy does it still hold up.
I watched Escape from New York just a few years ago for the first time (ok its probably 5 years ago). And I had a blast, film really holds up. I don't know why I didn't watched it before, given that I'm an 80s kid and watched all the 80s and 90s films, and I am a huge fan (of the first) Metal Gear Solid. For any reader who don't know why MGS this is relevant: Kojima was inspired by this film when creating the Metal Gear series. The main character even is named Snake.
Big Boss using an eyepatch is no coincidence hehe
Little off topic now, but can't wait how his next project Physint will be. Its said to be an espionage game again, and the teaser art looks suspicious so far.
What are they getting for their money? Fork it if it's so good.
Forking would mean the main developers does not work on it. They would need to work on their own. Do giving money will ensure the project stays up (in theory). Forking does not solve the issues you have with the mainline project automatically.
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Man I'm just here to enjoy some Linux not drama. Can't avoid politics at all on Lemmy :(
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