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Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by the_gastropod »

zwaps wrote: post #15
zwaps wrote: post #12

Omarchy!! shipping a window manager with defaults and or a terminal with a config - what an unspeakable sin. Linux should be hard and shitty and it should break all the time! What is this newfound obsession with distros that just works and have some great setups and defaults. Where do we end up if you can just close your laptop lid or copy paste with the same key or or or if even… gasp… the theme is automatically app…

The author is so close. “decades of debian and it never got any traction. Why?“ Yeah! What a mystery. What could make people install omarchy or pop os over debian, arch or gentoo? What could possibly be the reason

Having literal billionaire best buds backing the project probably helps one gain traction, no? Toss in a dash of weird culture war bullshit, and… well. Distro popularity isn’t exactly a meritocratic system.

Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by sodapopcan »

awesan wrote: post #2

What a strange thing to publish.. just don't use it if you don't like it? What is this even attempting to do?

> What is this even attempting to do?

It's a blog post, a medium where people can self-publish their writing for no other purpose than expressing themselves. These things have been around for decades at this point.

Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by sodapopcan »

peesem wrote: post #6
awesan wrote: post #2

What a strange thing to publish.. just don't use it if you don't like it? What is this even attempting to do?

well, it is in the "thoughts" section of the author's website. maybe it doesn't belong on HN, but the person who posted it is not the author, so take it up with them. anyway, i agree with most/all of the complaints but if a valuable point were to be made it is probably the funding point. why does this need money?

> maybe it doesn't belong on HN

Was helpful to me. I now know not waste my time.

Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by cwillu »

maxlin wrote: post #26

Well, this "not distro" software that takes over your whole computer when you boot the ISO and install it has been the greatest out-of-the box Linux experience for me, and has introduced me to the best new way of using an operating system since I first installed a Linux distro ~20 years ago. And yes I did actually end up going thru archinstaller first as the other route failed, but turned out it was archinstall faili…

The instructions on the back of the prepared meal box is not a cookbook.

This is not a judgement of using a prepared meal box.

Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by andrewjf »

mbirth wrote: post #16
peteforde wrote: post #9

FWIW, 1Password is pretty great.

It was better when it was still a native app and not this Electron nonsense.

Quality in general seems to be going downhill, too.

Frequently the desktop app and the safari extension won't be in sync and missing a recently added password, or doesn't show up on my other devices hours later. I still have no idea how the extension vs desktop app actually work together, or if they do at all.

Sometimes 1password (safari extension) is "locked" - but the desktop app isn't locked? and No amount of clicking the little 1password icon, that's supposed to unlock it does anything. Just a completely no-op button. Quitting safari _and_ the desktop app seems to be what's required to fix it.

I've been thinking about just moving back to native macOS keychain, but I haven't bothered to check on linux+windows support.

Re: Omarchy Is Not A Distro

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Post by cauch »

yuters wrote: post #29

I've tried to setup Arch with Hyprland like 3 times on my own and with the most popular dot files. It was terrible, frustrating and things broke all the time. Omarchy fixed that and I can't recommend it enough.

Did dhh provide a recipe to install hyprland properly without having to install a full "distribution"? (I don't know, it's a real question)

It feels very strange (and wrong) to me: if there is difficulties in installing something, try to help people instead of packaging the solution with other things that are not related. It feels a bit like if uv was mainly providing their "uvOS" to solve the difficulties of dealing with python packages.

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