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Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by aragilar » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 9:01 AM UTC

OGWhales wrote: post #58

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #54

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>This is such a reflexive and petty critique. How many real world security breaches happened because a login prompt that requires physical access limited to 10 tries instead of the "more cautious" limit of 3? God, this comment is funny to me. This is pulled straight from this website ( https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/93/security ) > Omarchy takes security extremely seriously. This is meant to be an opera…

I'm not seeing why 10 is so significantly worse than 3... How big of a difference is that, really? I believe it took something like 6 failed attempts for my bank to lock me out.

But why change the default? Is this in the top 10 things you would do after installing your distro of choice?

To me, this indicates a lack of judgement around what should be prioritised, which is reflected across the many issues the post raises. Naturally judgement is an acquired skill, which novices lack (and which they gain through experience and guidance), but given the big names associated with the project, that doesn't reflect well on their other projects.

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by mexicocitinluez » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #85

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #49

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lol hold up. Are you saying you can't criticize something unless you're actively working on it?

This person did write a very,very long article that would have been shorter in the form of PRs as fixes to some of the issues, to be fair

lol You should read the article first before commenting.

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by Ygg2 » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC

phplovesong wrote: post #88

JokerDan wrote: post #81

I am surprised Omarchy got such a large audience, DHH had already dropped an opinionated Ubuntu 'distro' - Omakub - but seemingly didn't gain popularity. Even though I haven't used it, I don't mind Omarchy existing if it works. I had issues with omakub when I had tried it in the distant past. https://omakub.org/ That said, I think a lot of peoples criticism of DHH and Omarchy is based on their personal opinions of DH…

Because its hype driven by content creators.

Yup. Primagen hyping it up gave it a huge push.

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by mexicocitinluez » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 11:20 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #74

timeon wrote: post #50

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I think many people have problem with the project because it is from alt-right environment.

If you seriously think DHH and collaborators are "alt-right", you haven't met many alt-right people.

You have no clue what you're talking about.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/europeans-don-t-have-or-understand...

The guy who glazes JD Vance, the 1000000% alt-right Vice President who doesn't care about literal Nazis infiltrating his party is probably part of the alt-right.

lol go back to 4chan

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by Foxboron » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 12:14 PM UTC

mtlynch wrote: post #7

These criticisms all feel very nitpicky and subjective. So many of them seem to boil down to, "this is an opinionated configuration, but their opinions differ from my opinions." This part was where I stopped taking the article seriously: > Moreover, taking into account that the system relies heavily on sudo (instead of the more modern doas), and also considering that the default installation configures the maximum nu…

What about just ignoring package signatures?

https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/default/pacm...

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #92

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This person did write a very,very long article that would have been shorter in the form of PRs as fixes to some of the issues, to be fair

lol You should read the article first before commenting.

I read the whole thing, I did gloss over some parts given the length.

But mine was a joke with a small complaint about the length. Everybody can do what they want with their free time, none of my business

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by throwawaypath » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 2:54 PM UTC

timeon wrote: post #50

mickeyp wrote: post #18

It is so sad to see so many people -- including the article, to an extent -- and also people in the comments cast shade on this distro and the people who may try Linux either for the first time, or perhaps one more time, because they tried and failed to switch before. Calling it flashy is an especially amusing critique. You couldn't kick your way through the 90s and 2000s without the endless parade of semi-transparen…

I think many people have problem with the project because it is from alt-right environment.

>I think many people have problem

"There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

>because it is from alt-right environment.

No it's not.

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by maxen » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC

bsnnkv wrote: post #77

On another discussion forum I saw someone posted[1] the results of running shellcheck against the bash scripts that make up Omarchy: λ omarchy master Ɇ » shellcheck -f checkstyle bin/* **/*.sh | grep error | wc -l 451 λ omarchy master Ɇ » cloc . 662 text files. 473 unique files. 253 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.06 T=0.07 s (6645.0 files/s, 133055.1 lines/s) ---------------------------------------------…

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Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by throwawaypath » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 3:03 PM UTC

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #78

pelagicAustral wrote: post #13

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You seem to be the one equating 'brit' to skin color.

No, really, DHH does that in the linked article. > Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now. I personally don't see how it could be "as evident as day" simply by walking around and observing without bringing skin color into it. Wa…

The only "Brits" native to Great Britain are White Brits.

It has nothing to do with race, everything to do with ethnicity. Austrians are racially White, but are not native to London.

There's nothing wrong with promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous people over those of immigrants or foreigners.

Re: A Word on Omarchy

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Post by throwawaypath » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

slightwinder wrote: post #42

pelagicAustral wrote: post #13

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You seem to be the one equating 'brit' to skin color.

Visual appearance is the main indicator to identify the perceived culture of some random person on the streets, so it's a justified assumption the writer was talking about this.

The only "Brits" native to Great Britain are White Brits. Visual appearance is a strong indicator.