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You realize Omarchy just started a couple of months ago, right? The founder himself put his money and time where his mouth is. Most of the thousands of distros
by mirzap 17d ago
You realize Omarchy just started a couple of months ago, right? The founder himself put his money and time where his mouth is.
Most of the thousands of distros are just a collection of config changes in GNOME, etc. There is no fundamental change in 99% of Linux distros. It's just different configurations of different tools, with the main differences being the package manager and window manager they use, plus their configs. Everything else is exactly the same.
- jdiff 17d agoThat's a very simplistic and end-user-oriented view of what a distro is. Somebody hosts the infrastructure that Omarchy runs on. Somebody maintains the packages and applies specialized patches and communicates upstream. Omarchy doesn't do that. And that's fine. Plenty of distros start out at that level. But those fledgling distros don't get these kinds of sponsorships. Why Omarchy?
- soundnote 12d agoOmarchy does do that. They host their own packaging servers, which they keep intentionally a month behind Arch's to catch broken packages. They ship a custom kernel. They have a small AUR-like extra repository as well. > Why Omarchy? Because DHH has friends. It's not anything more special than that.
- mirzap 17d agoUbuntu wouldn't be Ubuntu we know today if Mark hadn't put his own money into it ($10m initially, oh, the irony); the same goes for Omarchy.
- fwip 17d agoDHH has certainly put a lot of tokens in. It's not clear that he's put much thought into it.