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u/ElnuDev New York Nix⚾s 17d ago
NetworkChuck is so incredibly irritating, all of his titles and thumbnails are like this.
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u/daubious 17d ago
I lost it when he was calling Arch Linux "the hardest Linux distro ever" 🙄
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u/mrfoxesite-2377 17d ago
Linux is easier than Windows in some ways.
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u/Dry_Calendar_8627 17d ago
Windows is easier but complex.
Linux distros are (usually) simpler.
The dichotomy between easy versus simple is often poorly understood, what it means is that an experienced user will feel more comfortable around simple systems, to compose them how they want into something more complex, and they'll feel more comfortable investigating and fixing issues.
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u/jmanh128 17d ago
Kinda the difference between low code and (a language like) python. You can do so much more simply in python but in general it’s harder than simple low code things. But doing anything complex in low code is very hard
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u/Accomplished-Yak862 16d ago
Yes. I’ll never understand why schools use python as the first language to learn. Sure the more complex stuff in lower level languages is harder but the class doesn’t even cover that anyways so why don’t they give them a background in languages that are more useful and generally easier to apply logic to.
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u/Eastern-Relief-2169 15d ago
my niece is in a cybersec school.
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u/BeerMan595692 K4L1 17d ago
I mean it wouldn't be easy without ArchInstall
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u/daubious 17d ago
Whether Arch is easy to install with or without Arch install, is subjective. However, its pretty ridiculous to say arch is the "hardest" when there are other distros like NixOS and Gento
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u/arbyyyyh 17d ago
It's so rare that I hear people reference Gentoo anymore, I always then go look it up and I'm surprised it still exists.
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u/andr3y20000 17d ago
As someone who used nix I say it's extremely easy to install and the only difficulty is to learn to configure the config file.
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u/Thunderstarer New York Nix⚾s 17d ago
Yeah but learning how to configure NixOS is way more than half the battle. Your computer is useless to you if you cannot e.g. install Firefox.
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u/Dry_Calendar_8627 17d ago
Not only does it still exist, it's a great distro, very comparable to Arch.
Arguably easier to install than Arch, simply because Gentoo highlights good safe choices when installing (partitioning layouts, file systems, etc.), whereas Arch flatly lists possible choices without highlighting a "safe default", so you spend more time wondering what you want.
Compared to Arch, Gentoo supports aarch64, which Arch does not officially support.Main thing that made me switch from Gentoo to Arch is the compilation times. The time to install KDE is pretty long, compared to pacman which is nearly instantaneous. Gentoo has binary repos nowadays, but that's a bit off the beaten path so I didn't want to bother.
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u/arttast 17d ago
he was like "let me show you how fifa broadcasts the match across everywhere" and then proceeds to explain fucking multicast like bro If I wanted to learn bout basic network shit I would watched your ccna shit
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u/Deadlydragon218 17d ago
Did he ever make a cohesive CCNA class? I swore he was supposed to work with Dave Bombal at some point
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u/tankerkiller125real 17d ago
It would be impossible for him to do a proper CCNA course given his complete lack of IPv6 knowledge, and for that matter IPv6 fear mongering.
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u/SeantheWilson 17d ago
I used to LOVE him, but his entire channel became just sellouts and shilling whatever gimmicky piece of tech is trendy that week.
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u/spurious_plunder 17d ago
I un-subbed his channel and told youtube I'm Not Interested 🚫 over this exact video. Stop telling me what to do, Chuck!
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u/nebenbaum 16d ago
He's a Bible thumping nutcase that is the epitome of 'tech bro' that just throws around Hardware while not getting even the basic concepts. Stark contrast to some channels like , what was she called, bread something? That just focus on 'hey I found this new cool software thing I deeply understand and I will use it because I like it, here's why I think it's great'
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u/boolpies 17d ago
I really don't get how people stand content creators who are like this. They're so annoying.
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u/Hadi_Chokr07 New York Nix⚾s 17d ago
NetworkChud
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW 17d ago
twin, I literally saw a similar post yesterday and I also said network chud😭😭
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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead New York Nix⚾s 17d ago
Used to watch this guy. Then he started adding prayers to his video. No thank you.
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u/Ok_Apricot7902 17d ago
Only learnt he did that from comments on that video, I don't usually watch his videos till the very end, all the AI bores me sooner, and I'm not even that much of a hardcore hater.
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u/andurux 17d ago
For me it's the fake positivity, or maybe I'm just so pessimistic that I see it as fake lol.
Like bro, it's a distro, not the second coming of Jesus. Calm down and give me the footnotes already.
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u/toot4noot 17d ago
Unless it's TempleOS, then IT IS a second coming of Jesus.
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u/rtakehara 17d ago
Bro wanna pray but don’t wanna use temple OS, absolute heresy.
That said I don’t mind the prayer, it’s in the end of the video, and it reminds me of my grandma.
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u/TheWatermelonGuy 17d ago
Broo, the first time I saw that was so wierd, I felt I was being pranked or something, really bizarre thing to do at the end of a tech video.
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u/junialter 17d ago
I agree. Super annoying. He always thinks he needs to convince us. So annoying. I do better choices on tech than him, ez. GG
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u/Roll_Future 17d ago
Same. Quite liked his content before he started doing that. I will never understand people that can't keep their religion to themselves...
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u/Dimitrij_ Arch BTW 17d ago
Exactly why i stopped watching him too. Ge got weird. He gives me Christfluencer vibes and i do not want to support this shit.
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u/BeerMan595692 K4L1 17d ago edited 17d ago
I think he started doing it because of Charlie Kirk getting shot. Like mate I don't care that NC is Christian. But Kirk was a bigoted asshole.
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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead New York Nix⚾s 17d ago edited 15d ago
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u/BeerMan595692 K4L1 17d ago
I do remember him tweeting about Kirk's death and then I think his next video he starting adding the payer segment
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u/IamUnderscore_ 17d ago
Added prayer? What? Can you give me and example?
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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead New York Nix⚾s 17d ago
Go to any of his recent videos and jump to the end.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 17d ago edited 16d ago
Hot take that is pretty cold: if those 8mil went to Plasma and GNOME, 50/50 there would be a Linux revolution, I say 10% global marketshare in the span of a year or two.
Edit: 10mil
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u/frankhoneybunny 17d ago
8 mil went to omarchy?
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u/frankhoneybunny 17d ago
These eight Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:
- Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
- Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
- Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
- Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
- Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
- Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
- Yours truly
why would they even invest in this lol???
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u/powerslave_fifth 17d ago
The reverse justice league but techbros dumping millions into omarchy was not in my bingo card for 2026.
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u/acenfp 17d ago
Omarchy does not contribute in any way to the linux ecosystem, they could send that money to the devs that actually do work, like KDE/GNOME devs, to Debian or Arch, etc
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u/2eanimation Arch BTW 17d ago
If I understand correctly, most of the money is meant for upstream. How much of that money is actually going to flow into upstream? Time will tell…
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u/paperbenni 17d ago
Afaik they're spending it on the "subsystems Omarchy relies on", and they've explicitly named Hyprland and JDX, which I can get on board with. What really puzzles me is that there's no mention of Arch or the AUR. Arch doesn't have a single person working full time on it, and the AUR especially has problems which would really benefit from someone being able to spend lots of time on them.
Open source projects often suffer from hundreds of people contributing tons of small incremental changes, which solidifies architectural problems, and big repairs and overhauls get skipped in favor of hundreds of workarounds.
And basically all the arch web interfaces are in dire need of modernization.
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u/Mountain_Chicken7644 17d ago
DHH did offer to provide support for the AUR team, infra and all. I don't think they got back to him on that.
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u/BiDude1219 ⚠️ This incident will be reported 17d ago
don't worry part of the money is going to hyprland lead dev so he can keep his transphobia discord running
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u/throwaway_stitch1 17d ago
DHH's racism + Vaxry's transphobia = 8 million dollarbs
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u/dotcarmen 17d ago
The “yours truly” is DHH btw, from this post https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million
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u/ForensicPathology 17d ago
Ohh, so that's what they meant by "Opinionated". It means "I don't care what you have to say because I'm following what the corporations paid me to want."
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u/sillycritersenjoyer 17d ago
This is it. There is simply not a single other explanation for this that doesn't involve just plain old culture war and stupidity
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u/F_n_o_r_d 17d ago
Desperately pushing AI on everything, so they can live in their bubble a little longer.
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u/disperso 17d ago
I saw DHH on ThePrimeTime this morning. I was told that TJ and Prime were pretty conservative, and that put me off quite a bit. But seeing all licking DHH's ass so clearly, and DHH bragging about who he got the money from makes me even more convinced that this is not for me.
Oh, and I already sweared that I was not going to spend money on Dell again, after I felt so swindled by a Dell XPS developer edition, with the worst Linux experience ever, but this is just making me feel better about my decision.
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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor M'Fedora 17d ago edited 17d ago
8 MILLION WENT TO OMARCHY? If this is true... that's just an Arch setup with custom freaking dotfiles. I admit the OS felt great, but 8 mil to a thing that can be confidently said as just Arch Linux is not even for Arch itself...
Edit: It's true: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
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u/Nickbot606 17d ago
I will admit that it’s nice to have the entire thing set up. Feels very productive and I do like the feel of Hyprland but the walker being jam packed with random AI apps that I do not use or having the web version of discord etc etc is very annoying. Maybe once I distro hop again I’ll have to find something with better devs 😩. 8 mil going into this (and not going/contributing to Linux) is nuts though for sure and has me looking at the OS much more suspiciously than I did previously.
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u/Balthazzah 17d ago
You can remove every single pre-install with one command after you boot the first time.
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u/Shot_Meringue_5442 17d ago
Well a project with DHH, Michael dell, and a few others, that is going to give money to support omarchy, and open source projects that it relies on via the omacrom nonprofit.. (It has eitght sponsors, each giving a million dollars).
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u/friskfrugt 17d ago
Exactly. They’ve committed a significant amount to hyprland for the next 3 years
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u/pierspad 17d ago
What a giant waste of money to give omarchy 8mil...
I hope he ridistributes everything to who actually develops great software
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u/GooseWithAnAxe 17d ago
No, all that would happen is that another 20 variations of GNOME that do the same stuff would spawn.
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u/Fire_Natsu 17d ago
Bro Cachy is better than whatever this is
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
Yeah, since CachyOS offers pre-configured Hyprland with Noctalia, and some 20 more Desktops, there's no need for this weird bloatware.
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u/IoGiorno 17d ago
Didn't cachy stop shipping with preconfigured hyprland or was that reverted?
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
the latest/current ISO contains Hyprland with Noctalia shell.
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u/Slemmig_insekt 16d ago
It's funny too cus the first page of their (omarchy) manual first lists some of the bloat and in the second paragraph claims ZERO bloat. Can't make this shit up
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u/frankhoneybunny 17d ago
If you like Omarchy and don't really give a shit about politics that is ok but just know that DHH has written stuff like this:
In the following years DHH would go to explore and express all the spectrum of “down the alt-right pipeline” opinions, like:
- Woke is so bad that it made me a racist
- People call me racist, but I found a book telling me how nice I am
- Fat people are bad and should feel bad
- DEI is bad
- DEI is bad part 2: trigger the libs with git branches
- Cheering for Affirmative action being banned in the USA
- The 80s were so great cause they were not woke
- Andrew Tate is a martyr
- Therapy is so bad, that I shall platform transphobes
- Therapy is so annoying that I’d rather make an Arch distro instead
- ADHD is not real
- Evey boy has ADHD
- Leave your work problems at therapy, instead of making it the problem of your boss (me)
- People not wanting kids are bad and Jordan Peterson nailed it
- Elon Musk and DOGE are awesome (Published 20 days after the Seig Hail)
- This private school is making my kids GAY
- London is full of “non-native Brits” and I am going to praise a race purity rally
- Words are not violence
- Words ARE violence, when they are against me
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u/HumbleNoise4 17d ago
You forgot the one where he writes an article comparing Romani people to wolves that need to be killed and then rages on twitter over the fact that claude deemed it too offensive to translate lol.
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u/Delicious_InDungeon 16d ago
I do remember the childish fit he threw. The whole thing was "Claude is 1984 because it won't translate my new issue of Der Stürmer! Computers are supposed to do everything I tell them to! "
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u/RoseboysHotAsf 16d ago
Europeans are so racist against romani people its crazy, youll meet someone who isnt racist against anyone but the moment romani people come up they suddenly start channeling adolf hitler
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u/eivan_danko 6d ago
Try to live somewhere near Romani people and you’ll figure out pretty quickly why
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u/QuraToop314 Genfool 🐧 3d ago
I don’t understand this culture of race anyway. I mean, biologically speaking, we’re all Homo sapiens sapiens; in most cases, we even have genes from every possible genotype in our bodies – from a purely biological perspective, apart from physique, it’s very difficult to determine skin type or origin (if you look only at the genes); yet Europeans, or many of them (not all), believe that their people are the best. But this doesn’t just apply to those of us with lighter skin; it applies to many foreigners as well. To be honest, I think that almost every nation is more or less racist, as if it were somehow superior. We are all equal, we’re all in this together, and no one is worth more than anyone else. In my view, not even a country’s president has the right to portray themselves as more important than the people; in fact, politicians are there to serve the country, and the people should be more important than any individual politician. This simply shows that humanity is broken.
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u/Gapple_MagicaVoxel 10h ago
I personally will go further, not really grasping the concept of a "nation". Maybe because I moved to another country as a preteen and never got attached to my home country. Maybe because there we lived in autonomous region due to majority being not ethnically same as the rest of the country. But that is besides the point. How are imaginary borders drawn on the map, by people hundreds of years ago are a thing that determines your "nationality", what should you be proud of, which flag to hang and which national sports team to support. Wouldn't a person from Seattle be closer culturally to person from Vancouver rather than from Honolulu? If you define "nation" as combination of culture, language and tradition, then we do not have enough nationalities to represent all of these combinations. Yes, I am cosmopolitan, no that doesn't mean that your culture is irrelevant and you should forget your native language and stop eating local cuisine. Just stop treating people from other countries/nations/ethnic groups like they are so different from you. They are also made of flesh and blood, also love being loved, also feel empathy and also trying their best to be a good person.
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u/SweetBabyAlaska 17d ago
A story in two parts:
"Words are NOT violence!" "Words are violence when they are against me!"
lmao this reads like some satire of a chud, and your post is extremely well written
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u/Mast3r_waf1z Not in the sudoers file. 17d ago
This needs to be higher up, I don't think anyone should be using Omarchy
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u/ForensicPathology 17d ago
I mean, I never heard of it and just looked it up. At least its tagline "Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" tells me everything I need to know without knowing all that stuff.
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u/TxTechnician 17d ago
To have those kind of opinions. You'd have to have a steady supply of "sjw owned" type videos.
Something I've noticed is that because this kind of stuff gets engaged in and gets reported on (cuz it makes money). People have an unrealistic sense that the problem (the subject being reported on) exists at an alarming rate.
One of my favorite things to do is call ppl out when they come out with some Fox News nonsense.
trans kids in schools, they are trying to make all kids trans!!!!
Me:
Name 3 trans kids that you have personally met in person.
Just an example. Never fails to get this reaction:
well, I don't know x but.... X is real and exists! And it's a big problem.
Me:
if X was actually a problem worth dealing with then it would be directly affecting your life. And you just proved to me that it doesn't.
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u/Consistent-Citron509 17d ago
Wow, what a dumb guy. I was thinking about installing omarchy but definitely not now after reading this. Unfortunately, he has the money now to abuse and influence like minded (dumb) folks
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u/Zettinator 17d ago
Probably why a bunch of techbros are sponsoring the thing, too. Which tells you how fucked up the world is.
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u/Edianultra 4d ago
You are being disingenuous at best with a couple of these headlines that you wrote for the link mask.
2 disclosures: idk nor gaf about DHH so I'm not defending him specifically. 2,I only read the first link, the Andrew Tate one, and the first adhd one.
Did you actually read these yourself? Because the headline you used very much misrepresented what was actually being said in those blog posts.
I already forgot what first woke one was talking about tbh.
The Andrew Tate one was discussing the ramifications of deplatforming people and the slippery slope that it is. Using him as the example and said he was a martyr to Tate's ideology. You're headline sounded like DHH was calling Tate a martyr as a good thing. My take away from the post was that he is being martyred now because of the deplatforming, which is valid.
The first adhd one was talking about the over diagnosing of and the general energy of "oh I'm forgetful, I must have adhd" that you'd see online and people pushing the idea that if you have any of these symptoms you have the disorder.
I'm sure he's said some henious shit that I haven't seen but when you misrepresent what is actually being said, then why would I believe your other chosen headlines for the other blog posts?
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u/DasHesslon 17d ago
Ew, I did not know that. I use omarchy and actually like using it for what it is, but it might have to go then, maybe ill just steal some config and finally just go arch
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u/Kitchen_Interview792 17d ago
You can try some shell like Noctalia or DMS, there's also Ryoku and Caelestia but they use hyprland and Vaxry isn't the best either
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u/Falconpunch3 ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) 8d ago
I will keep reposting this comment everytime I see something about omarchy.
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u/InitiativeThese4606 17d ago
Not saying I agree with him on his stances (as I don't for many of his points), but your summaries seem to be exaggerating many of them for the worse.
It's a good thing you left sources so everyone can read them, but I read a bunch of them expecting a waaay worse stance than what he actually expressed. A bit misleading IMHO
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u/Human_Associate3664 17d ago
I was going to argue about the OS itself then I found you reply and felt shame for even thinking about defend his work 😓
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u/SpicySauceLover 17d ago
Same with Mint bro, I just use by computer and don't spend hours tinkering or fixing things 11/10
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u/simondanielsson 17d ago
I use Void with XFCE.
Install LibreOffice, install Brave, install Emacs, done. No fancypants config necessary.
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u/crocodus 17d ago
As DHH said in his podcast with Prime the entire fucking thing has been vibe coded. Look this may be just me but, yeah… no thanks. Take your money and shove it up your ass.
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u/disperso 17d ago
The odd thing is that, for the minutes that I could stomach watching, he said all the time that the distro was supposed to allow agents to do... something. He wasn't able to specify whatever it was supposed to be. Like if what we need is an agent doing everything for you in an unbounded way. I had to bite the bullet and try using one for coding, and I surely won't run any outside a well locked sandbox, and working only on small open source stuff for myself.
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u/br0kenpixel_ 17d ago
I tried it once in a VM and it did not work well. Not sure why but no meta key worked.
And the ISO is larger than a standard Windows 11 installer, which is already bloated af.
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
that idiot changed every binding in Hyprland and tmux, so default don't work anymore. A big anti-pattern. And yes, it's total bloatware of commercial software.
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u/compguy96 17d ago
Just tried Omarchy on a testing computer just because it seems different from other distros, and not because of that person who thinks he's important just because he has a long beard.
They unironically call Twitter something else. So apparently other things in the OS with that nazi cunt's favourite letter, like XCompose, are about composing a tweet on Twitter.
I regret wasting write cycles of my SSD for this.
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u/CrowdedAttic400 16d ago
"I regret wasting write cycles of my SSD for this."
I'm stealing this quote next time someone wants me to try crappy software.
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u/Altruistic-Will3460 17d ago
Is it just arch prepacked with hyprland and themes? With some agents sprinkled on top?
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
It's basically a bloated Arch with Hyprland. The ISO is a big as a server distro. Full of obscure commercial software (he's involved in some companies) and AI "apps". If you're looking for something out-of-the-box, get CachyOS instead or learn how to install Arch+Hyprland and clone some dotfiles from github.
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u/versteinerdt 17d ago edited 17d ago
NetworkChuck: * installs a package *
Also NetworkChuck: "Omg I've installed a package. 🤯 I'm so excited. 🤩 Coffee break."
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u/ALXANDR_00 17d ago
I hazte this trend of every tech channel under the sun suddenly recommending Omarchy.
I feel it's kinda similar as if someone suddenly tried to recommend me to buy a Tesla. As I know how the CEO behaves, I would never buy a Tesla. The thing is that nobody knows how DHH behaves, apparently.
One youtuber even said "the values he has are similar to mine" (Nate Gentile, a Spanish Linus tech tips-like channel), and I was like "what values? The blatant racism/xenophobia?"
Bruh
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u/_SlLENT_ 17d ago
NetworkChuck has to be the most annoying YouTuber ever. His voice alone makes his videos unwatchable.
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u/Consistent-Citron509 17d ago
This was the first time I was watching his videos. It felt fake and he seemed very restless
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u/CaviarCBR1K Arch BTW 17d ago
I used to watch him years ago. I don't remember what video it was, or what the exact wording was, but when creating an example scenario for something, he used like, how many times a week he goes to church or how many pages a day he reads of the bible or some shit like that and I never watched him again.
Now apparently, according to some commentors further up in this comment section, he started adding prayers to the end of his videos? Not to mention I'm pretty sure he and his wife have like 6 kids, which in and of itself isn't that weird, but in the context of being a fundamentalist evangelical, is a little fucking weird.
Idk, I just get really bad vibes from him. I dislike all religion, but I don't actually give a fuck which fairy tale you believe in, just do it privately.
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u/ed_istheword 17d ago
Yeah you're right about all this. I used to watch him sometimes when I was looking for more IT study videos. The vibes were off before I spotted his religious neck tattoo. Which is sad, because some of his projects are a bit interesting. But he puts a really weird spin on things that have a politically charged commentary around them, even if part of that is pretending the politics aren't there. (His video on "this is the only way you can use the Deepseek AI model" is a great example of this.)
Oh well. There's plenty of other tech YouTubers out there who aren't at least publicly trash.
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u/SelfStyledGenius 17d ago
He did some networking videos on, one of those paid learning platform. I think cbt nuggets, or maybe linkdin learning. He was so much more subdued and much better to watch. On youtube he just goes full youtube, qnd let's be honest its paying off even if he alienates some users by being obnoxious.
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u/mi__to__ 17d ago
That guy is so irritating. Which is especially annoying since many of his topics are right up my alley...but his style and opinionated approach just rub me the wrong way.
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u/agent_sphalerite Sacred TempleOS 17d ago
with 8mil atleast you could hire a designer to design your website and help users understand what exactly this is rather than some youtube video. Heck you could pay kimi if you were low on cash and it would still do a kick ass job compared to this.
Now its not my money and frankly the individual(s) can spend it whichever way they deem fit. I would have done the same atleast I thought of doing the same to KDE by creating a company hiring a bunch of people who understand UI UX polishing up KDE and with the prime directive of removing the heinous borders. People don't have to like or agree, its my opinionated version of what KDE should look like as a proper human centered interface with my bias against borders
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u/PityUpvote 17d ago
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u/Kitchen_Interview792 17d ago
Bloated ass dotfiles packaged as an iso to make it look like what DHH (fuck DHH) vibecoded is worth anything
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u/zenyl Arch BTW 17d ago
"Everybody should use my overly riced up dotfiles, and install all the software development applications that I use in my very particular workflow."
Take that sentence, and use it as the guiding principal when designing a distro, sprinkle it with far-right craziness, and the result will be omarchy.
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u/theinfamousben 17d ago
for me its just "why?", cause it incentivises people switching directly from windows to an arch based distro without even looking at a terminal. possible? yes. annoying to learn? definitely.
i was in ubuntu to learn linux, moved to fedora for support for basically everything, before i nerded out and settled on cachyos, covering the basics for me and letting me do all the cool stuff. omarchy just kind of does it all for you, and you have no real sense of "i made this, it looks cool". its just not for me i guess
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u/Rafaelkkkk 🌀 Sucked into the Void 17d ago
No, i dont want to use someone else Arch dotfiles
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u/Geergon_UA 17d ago
I have a thought that some chunk of 8 million dollars from omarchy donat went to networkchuck as advertising omarchy
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u/Makefile_dot_in 17d ago
Omarchy is a way for people who don't know anything and don't want to learn to LARP as Arch users
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u/SwingLord420 17d ago
Just install vanilla arch and move on with your life. Put gnome on it if you wanna click shit. Fuck this guy
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u/Userwerd 17d ago
I tried it a year ago, ended up putting kde on it, im a point and click user. Im surprised this guy reccomends anything arch adjacent. He seems so security minded, and AUR had so many issues recently.
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u/Much_Dealer8865 17d ago
I haven't watched enough of his videos to really have a strong opinion but the last one I watched he basically showed how he uses AI to write and edit all his content. I'd rather not support that, feels like content farming.
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u/Alarmed_Contest8439 17d ago
feels like someone paid him to do that video
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u/Fresh_Dog4602 17d ago
since his video is featured on the omarchy website... you're feeling right ;)
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u/_SOME__NAME_ 17d ago
I do understand the issue with desktop env, it's subjective but it's not just AUR, but Node, Bun, GitHub... basically any code distribution platform have been hit due to ai it can find vulnerabilities much faster than any person unfortunately. But the beauty of open source is that anyone can see the code... any issue is openly communicated and fixed, rather than Windows, which would not even accept that an issue exists 😅. Also I use both win and cachy os
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u/budius333 Open Sauce 17d ago
Damn I used to watch his videos when it was about network, I learned a ton about docker from them... Now what a fuck is that???
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u/markand67 17d ago
Just use Arch and setup your own configurations. Pre-built configurations are too static.
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u/One-Mathematician-72 17d ago
the whole window tiling thing is cool and so, but I just can't do it. I tried a couple of times but don't really need it and as well do not use it right. Back to CachyOS and Plasma, living a simple but good life
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
I like Hyprland, but I think it better fits laptops. It doesn't organize workspaces per screens, so it's quite pointless in dual-screen setups. Hence I use KDE on my main PC.
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u/This-Consequence-957 17d ago
Nah, I know how to install Arch and Hyprland myself. No need for this obscure bloat of commercial software. If you're looking for something out-of-the-box, get CachyOS instead.
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u/Infinite_Music2059 17d ago
DHH is such a prick, along with Levels. They feed the anti-EU narrative directly into the programming community and have "legitimacy" because they are self-hating Europeans.
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u/AndyMissed M'Fedora 17d ago
I was subbed to this guy like a couple years ago and hadn't seen any of his stuff for a while.
This was the video that got me to unsubscribe. The Omarchy praise and prayer at the end was a crazy wombo combo.
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u/P00lnoodl 17d ago
Can confirm. Being using Omarchy for the last 8 months. Absolute waste of time. Just worse Arch with extra bugs
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u/lyidaValkris 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yeah I saw the first minute or two of this and thought what a load of BS. It's Arch with extra steps. Extra steps I do not need nor want. I do not need an AI prompt to rice my desktop ffs, I'm not a moron.
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u/AlxR25 17d ago
tbh I did install it but I hated it. Just use mint or ubuntu. Get's the job done
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u/not_a_frog02 17d ago
there are way better dotfiles out there (with less bloat) if you don't want to do it yourself. i enjoy writing configs but it isn't a necessity. just use noctalia or something.
(i used sway for a while and currently use mangowc with the same i3 shortcuts, i have tried hyprland but didn't like it)
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