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Tldr but the article’s author seems to not know / mention Omarchy is developed by a raging racist?
the article is just about reviewing the OS (and if it can even call itself a linux distro). Its not about dhh himself, plenty of threads and posts about him out there already.
Whole point of this “distro” is that it comes with bloat preinstalled?
A few exmples:
ChatGPT, Discord, Docker, Figma, GitHub, Google Contacts, Google Messages, Google Photos, HEY, Kdenlive, OBS Studio, Obsidian, Signal, Spotify, Typora, WhatsApp, X, YouTube, Zoom???
Wtf… Why
most of those “apps” also just open up a link in the browser…
“Hey” is an email thingy run by the company that DHH owns.
the rest of those “apps” are probably thrown in to make the list seem more complete. the real goal is to promote his paid email service.
It’s really simple: the apps preloaded are the apps DHH uses. It’s his distro people have been duped into using.
What I discovered upon closer inspection, however, is that Omarchy’s firewall doesn’t actually run, despite its pre-configured ruleset.
lol, oops
This is a great write up and analysis. It does make me wonder why there are big names associating themselves with this when it seems to really be a big mess under all the cool colors not to say anything of the garbage that comes out of the developer himself.
But maybe it all speaks to a way to improve upon and move past Omarchy. There is clearly a group of people that want to use or at least try Arch and Linux in general, but don’t really know how. Providing a highly configured Arch setup, that looks cool, actually delivers on security, that is created by people that understand systems, that still allows for the freedom of choice that Linux provides, and that aren’t developed by a scumbag could be a big hit.
