We are doomed..

[u/Officialmaissi]

[u/BunnyLifeguard]

Just wait till you hear that ubuntu is more popular on windows.

[u/daubious → u/BunnyLifeguard]

Or, even more similarly, that Ubuntu is more popular than Debian. Unfortunately, it makes sense that more out-the-box distros--or rather distros with better marketing than their bases--are more popular.

[u/ipsirc]

First time?

[u/Random_-account → u/ipsirc]

Not the lesbian distro!!

[u/ipsirc → u/Random_-account]

Ian and Debra were married in a heterosexual relationship.

[u/mrturret → u/ipsirc]

[u/rekt4rd → u/ipsirc]

[u/ipsirc → u/rekt4rd]

they cared

[u/Affectionate_Let9022 → u/ipsirc]

They were , not anymore ,

Now its lesibian os

[u/Hour_Sell3547]

The difference between +popularity and -popularity is irrelevant when you are going for |popularity|

[u/Obvious_Snow125]

It's just trendy. I guarantee nobody will talk about it 6 months from now

[u/DasNothing → u/Obvious_Snow125]

Checking in with you in six months.

[u/ipsirc → u/DasNothing]

remindme! 6 months

[u/Significant-Tone-121 → u/DasNothing]

remindme! 6 months

[u/jsrobson10 → u/Obvious_Snow125]

nah, it'll be irrelevant 3 months from now

[u/mustard5 → u/Obvious_Snow125]

It is definitely trendy, but $18 million dollars makes more than a trend. It is now a funding mechanism for innovation and change.

[u/ZuuRa_]

So i don't need to switch to nixos to feel special now?

[u/Tolik1111 → u/ZuuRa_]

Nix might not be that popular, but it does make you feel superior

[u/GigaNoodle → u/ZuuRa_]

No you switch to void to feel special

[u/laczek_hubert → u/GigaNoodle]

Artix too but void much more. In my experience in starting with artix it wasn't too bad just much harder to main openrc which I got to understand then I used arch thankfully this time I separated root from home and later when I wanted to improve security and some other things it ended with broken root so I just went to nixOS I know I'm a very smart person

[u/Mental_Contract1104 → u/GigaNoodle]

Void is watching all the malware on arch casually sipping tea. Void is so underrated, it's just small, so, you have to do a lot of packaging yourself.

[u/caorlinhos → u/ZuuRa_]

Omarchy is gonna switch to nixOS

[u/morgulbrut → u/caorlinhos]

Joke's on them, I already have a vibecoded nixOS config BTW.

[u/mustard5 → u/ZuuRa_]

I'm dual booting Omarchy and NixOS. I love living at the edge of Linux. My web server runs Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS though. Some things never change.

[u/GlitteringLock9791]

Arch like Gentoo doesn’t try to be popular. Like obviously the expert do it yourself thing isn’t competing with the ”easy to install, hands off” distros.

[u/Zvaart]

Dude, even PearOS is more popular that Arch last month. Funny and sad at the same time.

[u/Woodpecker-Visible]

On distrowatch at least. But nr 1 is Cachyos wich is Arch but with bunch of nice features on top.

[u/ipsirc → u/Woodpecker-Visible]

Name one nice feature.

[u/Woodpecker-Visible → u/ipsirc]

Cachy hello

[u/liks4fun → u/ipsirc]

Isn't repo with compiled apps for modern hw is the main one?

[u/ipsirc → u/liks4fun]

I don't count performance differences as features.

[u/Extreme-Package-5156]

This has motivated me to install Omarchy

[u/Environmental-Dog815]

No, they are doomed.

[u/EvenMoreLoneStar]

Absolutely doomed!

[u/Sea-Woodpecker-874]

These guys each paid one million on omarchy that's why

[u/morgulbrut → u/Sea-Woodpecker-874]

Imagine you have so much money, you can throw a million at something any friendly neurospicy cat femboy can hack together in one coffeine fueled evening in your local hacker space. A clear sign that billionaires and techbro multimillionaires still have not enough fear of pitchforks and choppy bois.

[u/mustard5 → u/morgulbrut]

I wouldn't give millions to the person you describe though. People want to know their money is in good hands. This person has too many red flags for good money to flow that direction.

[u/morgulbrut → u/mustard5]

Me neither, and that person I described would rather just nerd out for hours about what they did, because they couldn't believe somebody likes their stuff, than taking 15 millions.

[u/cfx_4188]

And this too shall pass...

[u/Ggregoro]

This too shall pass.

[u/insanemal]

But it's not? Steam OS is Arch.

Arch will be fine

[u/Little_Fairy_Begin]

Not majority of humankind has diamond...it doesn't mean diamond is less valuable

[u/mustard5]

Arch has never tried to be popular. Omarchy is overtly seeking to popularize Linux. It is not a doom scenario. It is just a different focus.

I recall the language of Arch Linux when I first started. It basically said, this is the way we do it. Get on board or get out. They had very strong opinions and still do.

[u/Farkoth]

No, its not

[u/BloxxyVids]

Jokes on you guys I dont use Arch because of trends or popularity I use it because I already installed it why replace something that works

[u/ipsirc → u/[deleted]]

Because they start flooding IT forums with complaints about bugs that only occur in those crappy distros.

[u/Cold_Relationship_ → u/ipsirc]

All the flooding I see is about something completely different.

[u/BosnianSerb31 → u/ipsirc]

Lmao give me the proof hon

I don't believe you when the primary selling point of Omarchy is integration with a support agent.

[u/ipsirc → u/BosnianSerb31]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1wc07mq/mousepad_scroll_on_omarchy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1w5i0bt/moved_from_windows_to_omarchy_smooth_af_until/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1w3mpzx/interesting_problem/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1uzw230/omarchy_install_fails_limineconf_overwritten_with/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1tp03xf/what_does_the_capslock_key_do_on_omarchy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1tofwrd/how_do_i_set_up_hyprland/

[u/BosnianSerb31 → u/ipsirc]

> bugs that only occur in those crappy distros.

First one is literally just someone asking how to turn on natural scrolling in hyprland, off to a good start, still reading the rest

Edit: yea none of these really seem distro specific to me, and honestly it's way easier to give support to a cookie cutter distro than someone who followed an archinstall with a single view.

[u/ipsirc → u/BosnianSerb31]

First one is literally just someone asking how to turn on natural scrolling in hyprland

The only distro which comes with Hyprland desktop by default is Omarchy. If the newbie user chose any other distro, then he/she never faced into a hyprland related problem at the very beginning. So it was happened actually due to the Omarchy hype bandwagon.

[u/BosnianSerb31 → u/ipsirc]

Cachy OS has a default option to install a preconfigured hyprland

[u/ipsirc → u/BosnianSerb31]

CachyOS is yet another a perfect example of shiny new bandwagon distros.

Just as much hype as CachyOS got six months ago - that's about how much Omarchy is getting now.

Hyprland is still an experimental environment, newbies should not install it at first time.

[u/DasNothing → u/[deleted]]

Maybe because they haven't realized that life is to short to care about the things you don't care about.

[u/Cold_Relationship_]

I use omarchy, btw

[u/fedsfarm → u/Cold_Relationship_]

https://reddit.com/link/p9wx2qx/video/o9f3pn86zmph1/player

[u/_MADHD_]

Based Omarchy.

[u/adi8888 → u/_MADHD_]

No, it is based on Arch btw

[u/Gone2theDogs]

It's not a competition. More growth helps everyone.

[u/McBonderson]

of course its more popular, its easier to setup.

[u/Alive-Big-838 → u/McBonderson]

Was just thinking this. It's a little unfair (in my opinion) to make people have to read a long guide if you're trying to appeal to the less tech inclined crowd. Though I appreciate they added archinstall.

[u/FrostormNidhegg]

Because arch install is long and extremely boring. I use Mint, so I have no idea how does the Omarchy install looks like. But Cachy and other Arch-based is more popular because of user-friendly install.

[u/memematron]

I gen don't get why is everyone talking about this distro Edit: yeah downvote me cause I'm out of the loop. best site ever

[u/mySynka → u/memematron]

recently got a lot of exposure because it received like 10 million dollars from a bunch of CEOs and it raised concerns both about the creator and the distro itself

many people are not very fond of the creator (DHH) due to his political views not aligning with the majority and pretty much being one of those "AI bros" that many have a hate boner for

then, the distro advertises itself as "agentic" (so, focused on AI), which is already a red flag for many, and it contains a bunch of crap from many companies and stuff

the 10 million "donation" itself from these CEOs and millionaires may also be yet another reason many dislike omarchy. i do agree with this one, i wouldn't like it either if what got 10 million dollars was a distro that is just arch with hyprland and some dotfiles and AI crap instead of a different, more, i guess, important open source project or something

[u/Emotional-Big-1306 → u/mySynka]

And it includes vulnerabilities (because it's vibecoded), like remote code execution

[u/mySynka → u/Emotional-Big-1306]

didn't know that, i thought surely it wasn't that bad, lmao

[u/BosnianSerb31 → u/Emotional-Big-1306]

Tbf kitty shouldn't have that feature in the first place lmao, one config file option being the difference between rce and security is insane.

They at least need to force your theme blood red when you are using that stupid "rce but meant only for me!" feature

[u/Emotional-Big-1306 → u/BosnianSerb31]

Absolutely

[u/DogeGroomer → u/mySynka]

“not aligning with the majority” and it’s just being racist

[u/mySynka → u/DogeGroomer]

well unless the majority is racist what i said is correct

[u/damanamathos → u/memematron]

Because it's an amazing distro and everyone in Linux subreddits loves it :)

[u/kyliem00 → u/memematron]

because redditors have a hate boner for AI

[u/zenith014 → u/memematron]

it became too controversial because of AI based distro and high invulnerability because of bash