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I was humbly going to posit same, but given the vitriol apparent against the publisher, it is symptomatic of something, I guess. The points downthread make for an informative read, pro-against.-
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#73And what do you know? The vector-database-for-AI publisher recommends omarchy-for-AI:
https://xcancel.com/antirez/status/2090354253743177866
This is all purely organic.
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#74I’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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OpenBSD is a political statement, Omarchy is a fashion trend.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 us…
This is so true and one of the reasons why I think the "Linux Desktop" will always fail as long as it's marketed as "Linux Desktop". There's a clear market for "good enough" Linux boxes for coders and casual Chromebook-style usage (Steam Machine style) that's constantly bullied by the "you should read the manpage before posting" crowd.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
"it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files." This is inherently untrue. A .plist in XML is nothing but text. It might be formatted text, but it is still text nonetheless, like almost every other configuration file in existence.
Technically correct but you miss the point. Human readable text (like TOML). Nobody wants to edit XML .plist files to configure their OS and apps.
Surely the LLM doesn't mind.
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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…
As far as I see Omarchy is not meant for everybody but for developers. Not a general purpose distro that copies Windows or Mac like functions. I remember MacOS becoming relevant for developers in 2002/3 long time before it became mainstream (again). By putting money behind it, they could indeed put pressure on some features currently missing in other OS and distro.