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Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by Aurornis »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #20

Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.

> talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”.

DHH has always been a contrarian who speaks highly confidently in extremes. He does well in topics where he can show up and act like a beacon of sane and helpful takes in a world where everyone other than him is wrong.

Some times he’ll find a clear wedge topic and hook his message to that, appealing to people on one side of the wedge.

At other times he’ll manufacture some strawman arguments and present them as indisputable facts that he’s revealing to you, dear listener, as a trusted guide who has seen the light.

His sudden flip to being anti-Mac after years of being pro-Mac follows the pattern. He had some small real grievance at some point and saw an opportunity to become known for Omarchy, so he flipped to extreme takes like “Macs are complete trash” and saying weird things like how they can’t be used for agents.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by crocowhile »

rmoriz wrote: post #47
crocowhile wrote: post #36

This is not a distro. It's a masterpiece in trolling.

It's a top to bottom approach. Get the UI/UX working, make incredible marketing, sort out the technical foundation later. Excellent executed from a strategic point of view. Let's see if Arch is the best foundation for such a project. I don't know. Personally, I hope, Debian isn't shutting the door on LLM-supported coding to improve their legacy tooling. I believe we have a very short window to use almost-free LLM fix…

Over the past 30 years I have witnessed multiple approaches to try and capture the normies. Ubuntu was the first one to try and market a "just works" approach, introducing a graphical package manager that looked like the play store or apple store; Mint was trying to clone the Windows or MacOS appearance. Then there was the Compiz frenzy, that was selling graphical features as eye candies. They all had their reason to exist.

Omarchy, on the other hand, is this close to be a scam: marketed as "the AI distro" just because it has a keyboard shortcut to launch claude-code or codex basically. "opinionated" because it ships with a default desktop manager and a default text editor, just like any other freaking distro out there. Not to mention the fact that it's financed by people who have nothing to do with FOSS.

Re: Omakase Computing

#53

Post by Aurornis »

hizanberg wrote: post #33
JSR_FDED wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use the ‘defaults’ CLI to manage settings files for the OS and applications. For example: https://macos-defaults.com/

Other than being a proprietary OS that's getting more locked down every year, its disk performance is trash. https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991

Do you have a non-video, non-X summary of what he’s talking about?

I’m not watching a 31 minute video on X to figure out what this is about. Theo is another influencer who thrives on being contrarian, embellishing negative claims about things he’s not pumping right now, and trying to get everyone to ignore negative things about what he is pumping. I would not trust his judgment on topics like this without some third party benchmarks and deeper claims because the first priority of influencers in this category is to be contrarian and ride divisive topics. Being factually correct is secondary.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by atonse »

I just installed Omarchy yesterday wanting to try it out. Mainly dealing with not having a mouse for my second computer but maybe you gotta give it a few days as your main machine.

But I prefer the sub pixel font rendering in macOS to the one in Linux. I always have. And that hasn’t changed with Omarchy.

The theo video about the file systems being way faster is what got me to consider it. Working with node modules folders a lot, and occasionally working with docker (orbstack is great) I’m curious about considering this as my dev machine.

We’ll see how it goes but I wasn’t blown away the way the videos say. At least not yet.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by thefossguy69 »

2ash12g wrote: post #35
bestham wrote: post #28

I’m very impressed with how easy Omarchy is to get going for someone who knows enough about Linux and computers to take over the rudder and steer the ship to wherever they are going. Proprietary tools like 1Password and Spotify are in place. It works wonderful in a Mac centric SaaS organisation. Actively developed and refined. It would be great to have a traditional taskbar oriented distro like this. But in the meant…

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What even is this comment?

Re: Omakase Computing

#56

Post by embedding-shape »

kibibu wrote: post #41
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch. Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some clos…

> Ruby-on-Rails fanboi Lol. The author is the creator of Rails

Lol, he should try signing his post, literally had no idea! Thought it was weird to fanboi so much over someone else's framework, but now it totally makes sense, DHH has a tendency to toot his own horn a lot.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by embedding-shape »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #13
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch. Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some clos…

He's talking about Linux neckbeards and gatekeepers, not, say, cultural idiosyncrasies of any given distro.

None of them, at least the one's I've encountered in my 20 something years, have had the idea of "everyone has to know everything about all tools", although they've certainly been annoying in other ways.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by hombre_fatal »

embedding-shape wrote: post #57
hombre_fatal wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's talking about Linux neckbeards and gatekeepers, not, say, cultural idiosyncrasies of any given distro.

None of them, at least the one's I've encountered in my 20 something years, have had the idea of "everyone has to know everything about all tools", although they've certainly been annoying in other ways.

There's some hyperbole but his point is obvious to me from hanging out in forums and IRC channels over the years, or reading snarky "umm, I'm confused...?" quote-tweets for certain Omarchy posts about how Omarchy is just quickshell hyprland rice.

I used to use an old omakase version of Debian called Crunchbang in uni (https://crunchbang.org/) and there was always someone around to make the remark that you'd only use it if you couldn't read manpages.

Or Dropbox seems pointless because you can build it trivially by mounting an ftp location with curlftpfs + svn.

Re: Omakase Computing

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Post by TiredOfLife »

crocowhile wrote: post #52
rmoriz wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a top to bottom approach. Get the UI/UX working, make incredible marketing, sort out the technical foundation later. Excellent executed from a strategic point of view. Let's see if Arch is the best foundation for such a project. I don't know. Personally, I hope, Debian isn't shutting the door on LLM-supported coding to improve their legacy tooling. I believe we have a very short window to use almost-free LLM fix…

Over the past 30 years I have witnessed multiple approaches to try and capture the normies. Ubuntu was the first one to try and market a "just works" approach, introducing a graphical package manager that looked like the play store or apple store; Mint was trying to clone the Windows or MacOS appearance. Then there was the Compiz frenzy, that was selling graphical features as eye candies. They all had their reason to…

> marketed as "the AI distro"

Where?

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