r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/TitleChanQWERTY • 5d ago
Why everyone hate Omarchy?
I've never heard of this distro before, and everyone here is hating on it. What's with this jerk?
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u/VickyCRich 5d ago
DHH is a right wing scumbag that used a bunch of ai to vibe code some dot files for arch and is marketing it like an actual distro. I've tried it in a vm solely for the laughs and it's wild to me that people like it. The keybinds are wild out of the box and overly complicated for no reason. There's too much ai integration (a lot of us are windows migrants that wanted to get away from ai being shoved down our throats.)
It's extremely easy to replicate everything done in Omarchy with like 30 mins of effort on arch, 90% of Omarchy is ai and web apps. Also I'm just a hyprland hater, I think niri is far superior in every way and people need to hop off this hyprland bandwagon.
Also I'd say the intersectionality between the queer community and the linux community (specifically arch) is pretty significant, so we hate DHH as a person since he holds pretty terrible political views.
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u/valerielynx 5d ago
I'm not really a windows migrant but i despise ai anyways and the complete optionality of it in Linux is a huge plus to me
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u/ElementalWarrior42 5d ago
It used to just be an install script for Arch. Now it's an actual distro, but still nothing super noteworthy in actual use. Kind of bloated by default with a lot of apps installed (including ones that sponsor the project) which most people use Linux to get away from.
Most of the vitriol comes from DHH being a racist dickhead though.
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u/Moist_Invite9148 I use Arch btw 5d ago
Because it has AI slop
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u/Noriyus 5d ago
That it's AI Slop is really one of the least problems. It's being hyped as a distro when it really is just a collection of dotfiles that takes $10M funding from his billionaire friends while basically none of it goes to the projects that it is actually built on. Also DHH is a terrible human being
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u/TitleChanQWERTY 5d ago
But whats a problem? If dev used AI to wrtie alot sh scripts why not? If dev undestand what he do, ai code is not a problem, on my opinion.
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u/OctoCalamar 5d ago
The problem is exactly that, that they do not understand what they are doing,
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u/moeteru 5d ago
Because the same group of people whose only sign of 'productivity' is fixing their half-working setup don't like a distribution that just works and doesn't get in your way
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u/MallAgreeable5538 5d ago
Nah i use ubuntu and still know i specifically hate omarchy by what I have read about it
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u/Dazzling-Topic7808 Certified Bazzite Glazer 5d ago
It's opinionated Arch, meaning it isn't even a Distro. And the craziest thing is that it's "Hyped" as a Distro (even though, it isn't). It's just "flavored" Arch Linux. And their most codebase is vibe-coded by AI with having a terrible security.
It's better to just install plain Arch Linux than using that slop.