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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 jasonvorhe »

preisschild wrote: post #112
LelouBil wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly same, BUT if those 8M go towards financing Linux desktop projects I'm all for it.

Depends where that funding goes towards, a lot of far right grifters in the linux sphere hate many projects in the linux desktop ecosystem (freedesktop, xorg, systemd, gnome, kde) See for example Lundukes "Woke Software" list https://github.com/BryanLunduke/SoftwarePoliticsTracker

If those projects are all grifters because you disagree with some of their politics, what do you have to show for?

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by rufugee »

psp99 wrote: post #84
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.

which laptop do you recommend, though? i type this on an m4 air that i wish i didnt buy; but i love its keyboard. i havea. t480s and do not like its keyboard...

I am running it on the Framework 13 and 16. Both are awesome devices, but I'm partial to the 16. Beautiful screen, great keyboard, and I can easily swap in an NVIDIA card when I want.

Battery life isn't the best in this beast. I'd love to try a Dell Panther Lake laptop and may end up with one in the near future. DHH reports Apple Silicon-ish battery life.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

xavdid wrote: post #69

I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views: - https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i... - https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

Interesting you chose to link to 2 hit peaces interpreting his political views from their perspective instead of his posts detailing those views directly.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by rufugee »

nchmy wrote: post #94

I tried Omarchy 10 months ago. I liked how easy it all was, like the PWAs installed, etc... But I was completely lost with, and even offended by, how the tiling window manager worked. Windows were just moving around all over the place, changing sizes etc... It was by far the worst computing experience that I've had in a very long time. And it was particularly awful on a small laptop screen where you REALLY need to ma…

It's come a LONG way in user friendliness in 10 months. Combine Omarchy with a LLM and you can literally change any behavior you want in minutes. I have heavily customized mine, but have been able to remove some of those customizations on Quattro because upstream incorporated similar features.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by throwawaypath »

__float wrote: post #73
bigyabai wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. Sad for whom? People that get excited paying $99/year to fund Donald Trump's next golden manufacturing trophy? https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-... Apple does not represent the average developer, they hamstrung macOS for petty reasons. There's no NTFS support, no official Vulkan…

If you're concerned about Apple's relationship to the Trump administration, it seems a bit odd not to mention DHH has much more discriminatory views and is not afraid to voice them loudly: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

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Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

whalesalad wrote: post #70

My gripe with omarchy is that it could be a script applied on top of bare arch or bare cachyos, i'm not sure why it needs to be a standalone distribution. Also try as I might - I cannot get down with hyprland. KDE for life! All this being said, positivity and investment in the Linux ecosystem is always a good thing.

Because it's easier and faster, you don't have to curl | sudo, you don't need to fiddle manually with networking and I could go on and on.

> bUt UbUnTu iS jUsT DeBiAn aNd sOmE ScRipts

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by [deleted] »

xavdid wrote: post #69

I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views: - https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i... - https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

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Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

biggestfan wrote: post #79

I don't really get Omarchy, it seems like the hype is about "sensible defaults" when those defaults include a bunch of random paid software and links to websites DHH likes? (Plus all of 37signals offerings, of course.) I'm sure people use some of them, but I don't praise Android phones for preinstalling Facebook. https://omarchy.org/manual/commercial-apps-services/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/

Quattro let's you easily clean all that up in a minute. I think even 3.x offered that somewhere but I'm not exactly sure if that just cleaned up the webapps.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by thomascountz »

huslage wrote: post #7

"what the malleable computer of the future looks like" ??? Excuse me? This is just a linux shell script repository. What is the point of having $8m to maintain a shell script?

I think their bet is that 8M is what it will take to go from a repo of dotfiles to Linux on the Desktop.
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