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Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by cogman10 »

Hugsbox wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

Looks like nothing. It's arch with a bunch of pre installed apps and a few goodies on top.

My guess is relationships and fame went a long way towards getting those funds.

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Post by Retr0id »

Hugsbox wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

It's a political statement disguised as a FOSS project (which itself is fine, all software is political).

The funders are not funding the development of a Linux distro, they are co-signing the political statement.

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Post by vends »

Hugsbox wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

DHH effect. He has a very strong following, and there's a certain amount of trust/prestige attached to his name in the tech/startup world. For a lot of these people, DHH building something is probably enough to get them interested and willing to throw money at it.

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Post by 0xb0565e486 »

When I was a kid my mom had a daycare and had access to a program where she could buy older and used desktops at a discount.

I loved installing different operating systems on them and try to customize it. Better window management, better animations, nicer colours etc.

Of course, the results were always marginally better or worse than the stock version of that distribution.

Seems as this is the case for Omarchy here as well.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by mdotmertens »

Hugsbox wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

omarchy is the new "i use arch, btw". I'm too altruistic (or dumb) to understand why you would pump money into a riced arch install.

In some way I feel people just try to buy into "street cred" on the other hand omarchy could be a great launchpad for a distro that is customizable, easy enough to use and may provide a great MDM solution at some point.

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