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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by nealsales »

I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday.

I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primarily). There are tradeoffs, but I haven't enjoyed working on computers this much since the 2010 era, first learning to build web apps with Ruby on Rails. The distro is merely 6 gigs and takes minutes to install. And the video DHH just released Quattro with is worth a watch to get a feel for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by carterbeagle »

Lots of negativity in this post. As someone who is an engineer and not a software engineer, this has improved my technical capability tremendously by giving me training wheels and removed decision paralysis because there's so much crap out there and everyone is so opinionated. I don't have time to try out pi and herdr and opencode and codex...

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

Exoristos wrote: post #4
colesantiago wrote: post #3

Isn’t Omarchy a vibe coded Linux distro with Claude? Seems you can just vibe code anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich. If this is needed for the “year of Linux on the desktop” have at it I guess.

It's Linux for very young men who don't use Linux.

For what its worth, I am part of the very young men you mention* (currently 18) and I have talked to people my age on discord who use Linux.

My opinion is that I think that cachyos is a much more suitable option over omarchy.

Personally out of so many of the distros that I have tried including Omarchy, I found Cachyos to be somewhat perfectly balanced (atleast for me).

So I highly recommend Cachyos if you haven't already!

(On a side note: Fedora is something that I wish to try a bit more as well to be honest and for servers, I mostly use debian/ubuntu or alpine)

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by tensegrist »

insofar as this gets people off macos/windows and onto linux, especially among younger people where macos has managed to hold on to the position of a default that developers are comfortable e.g. being the only platform they support, this is a good thing imo

the fact that it's largely hype-driven is par for the course for how things work these days

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by software_writer »

nealsales wrote: post #11

I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday. I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primarily). There are tradeoffs, but I haven't enjoyed working on computers this much since the 2010 era, first learning to build web apps with Ruby on Rails. The distro is merely 6 gigs and t…

Same here. Using my ThinkPad became much more fun after I installed Omarchy on it.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by bigyabai »

nomilk wrote: post #8
software_writer wrote: post #5

Switching to Omarchy was one of the best decisions I made last year that improved my everyday computing experience so much, and introduced me to so many amazing tools like neovim, tmux, tiling window managers, Arch Linux, and countless TUIs.. Haven't touched my old MacBook this year at all. If you're in the market for a new laptop / operating system, I highly recommend you give it a try.

Hadn't realised (until your comment) that Omarchy doesn't work on non-intel macs; that's a shame. https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-m...

Intel Macs have first party Linux drivers. They're much easier to support since they just behave like any normal x86 laptop would.
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