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why would anyone use this distro when there are so many options? genuine question.
Basically every other distro is: choose one of these 10 filesystems, 5 bootloaders and 20 desktop environments
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Some yes. I am not american, so i don't see anything particularly wrong with them. The main thing americans forget is that they are the invaders that replaced the local population and erased local culture.
This is hilarious. He isn't American and isn't talking about American in his racist rants. The people calling out his racism aren't focused on America or a majority American. His main blog post that gets called out for the blatant racism is titled "As I Remember London".
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The fact comments like this get downvoted because what they say is inconvenient is one of the major signs AI has fundamentally broken HN. It was already hard to have technical conversations in public, now there is a contingent determined to make it utterly impossible, and they are succeeding.
By the HN guidelines, it’s better to avoid discussing downvotes on HN
Here you are just wanting to appeal to the guidelines to shut down inconvenient but true statements, again.
why would anyone use this distro when there are so many options? genuine question.
That's the point of omarchy. There are no options. You boot from iso, enter your name and press enter. After a minute you have a working system. Basically every other distro is: choose one of these 10 filesystems, 5 bootloaders and 20 desktop environments
I think people shouldn't just jump to distros which are getting heavily hyped in media/Youtube, cachyOS had similar wave, and now Omarchy does. (example: NetworkChuck, Primeagen? and a few others) also, archlinux is much easier to install nowadays with archinstall [1], so i'm not sure you really need another opinionated layer on top of it [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
The problem is not the hype, the problem is that it's a vibe coded distro. AI lowers the bar substantially in terms of needed competence and diligence to create something like this. Of course bugs and issues are present in human created software as well, but now that everyone can vibe code a distro the chances of low quality software are much greater.
I think people shouldn't just jump to distros which are getting heavily hyped in media/Youtube, cachyOS had similar wave, and now Omarchy does. (example: NetworkChuck, Primeagen? and a few others) also, archlinux is much easier to install nowadays with archinstall [1], so i'm not sure you really need another opinionated layer on top of it [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
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Yes, he’s a lost cause: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
So what works for you: seeing him disappear from the Earth? He's not a human anymore? Have you ever spoken with him directly before? Or do you just read and write about people you've never had any real interaction with?
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What exactly is special about rolling a custom arch in this instance? Like, why does this get so much attention? Do web developers really care about what DHH does that much? Like, I get it if thats the case. Say, if Chris Lattner or Andrej Karpathy rolled some ML GPU programming distro I'd probably care about it and try and see if it made me more productive.
DHH made Ruby on Rails and lots of people love it (not for me, personally).
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The whole point of Omarchy is for people who want to use Arch Linux but have it configured the way DHH does. So I think it's a little different. Anybody using an opinionated respin should understand what they're getting.
What exactly is special about rolling a custom arch in this instance? Like, why does this get so much attention? Do web developers really care about what DHH does that much? Like, I get it if thats the case. Say, if Chris Lattner or Andrej Karpathy rolled some ML GPU programming distro I'd probably care about it and try and see if it made me more productive.
There's a sort of cult of personality around him at this point. His acolytes follow him for his nativist views, and then adopt his technology unthinkingly.
I don't know why my comment was downvoted above. This isn't a serious distribution and you shouldn't expect it to be. It's a vanity project of a niche alt right tech bro, and this is the level of rigor you should expect.