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DHH's Omarchy Considering Replacing Arch/AUR with Nix

6 points by djfergus 8d ago

djfergus 7d ago
Interesting update: https://x.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://x.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 DHH: "To that effect, I've also removed the plans/nix.md file from the current quattro branch. We're having some amazing discussions with nix experts about what the future can look like. But that's for Cinque (if at all). Right now we're ALL IN on shipping Omarchy Quattro RS 4.5 next!"
- majorchord 4d ago
  I would not be surprised if Omarchy switching to Nix caused a large number of Nix devs to leave (yet again) simply because they can't stand others having opinions they don't like, and using the worst possible interpretations of what people say.
bigyabai 8d ago
"Welcome to my distro-hopping adventure, you're all invited!" > Rejected approaches: home-manager for user configs: it would make ~/.config a farm of read-only symlinks into the store, which is the opposite of Omarchy's "your files" philosophy What in the world of AI sycophancy is this? Omarchy's "philosophy" is what caused this dotfile disaster to reach for a lifeboat in the first place.
- db48x 8d ago
  Surely it is better to correct course than to avoid fixing the problem just because it would be hard. I do think that specific fix will be a hard sell, but you shouldn’t mock them just for considering it. And to characterize it as a “disaster” when it is merely a problem that worries them shows your own bias.
  - bigyabai 7d ago
    My overall point is that anyone who doesn't want the Omarchy Arch experience can just use ordinary NixOS. Nothing that Omarchy provides is important, and many of the "philosophy" choices directly conflict with NixOS' systems. It's much worse than shipping your own custom Arch ISO, or putting your configuration.nix onto Github. NixOS will mislead and confuse the Mac/Arch expats that are this distro's target audience. Why should Omarchy fans cheer this on? I ask this as a NixOS user myself, I'd be pissed if I installed an Arch-like distro only to spend my time diagnosing broken AI-generated Nix modules, configuring an FHS sandbox and trying to install pkgbuilds. It's not a fix for the target audience and it just reeks of distrohopping to me.
    - db48x 7d ago
      That’s not a very useful point. Of course if people don’t want the Omarchy experience they can just use something else. That includes you. If it would annoy you then just don’t use it.
      - bigyabai 7d ago
        Many people did. You see, before Omarchy ever existed there was this thing called "Arch Linux" that was famously a tarpit for unemployed midwits and trend-chasing social media addicts. To nobody's surprise, curb-cutting a notoriously dangerous and poorly-designed distro does not give you a reliable or accessible system. We saw this with LARBS, ArchLabs, Regolith, Manjaro and now Omarchy too - shipping your dotfiles as an out-of-box experience for other people is 100% pure technical debt. It got so bad that GTK devs directly called on distros to stop shipping overidden defaults since it confuses developers and users both: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-theming-distros https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-the...
    - machomaster 7d ago
      > Nothing that Omarchy provides is important Hundreds of thousands on people beg to disagree.
lordkrandel 8d ago
Oh wait, talking again about that fascist ideologist? https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
- machomaster 7d ago
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6 points by djfergus 8d ago

Interesting update: https://x.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://x.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/2097623347802587393?s=20 DHH: "To that effect, I've also removed the plans/nix.md file from the current quattro branch. We're having some amazing discussions with nix experts about what the future can look like. But that's for Cinque (if at all). Right now we're ALL IN on shipping Omarchy Quattro RS 4.5 next!"

majorchord 4d ago
I would not be surprised if Omarchy switching to Nix caused a large number of Nix devs to leave (yet again) simply because they can't stand others having opinions they don't like, and using the worst possible interpretations of what people say.

bigyabai 8d ago

"Welcome to my distro-hopping adventure, you're all invited!" > Rejected approaches: home-manager for user configs: it would make ~/.config a farm of read-only symlinks into the store, which is the opposite of Omarchy's "your files" philosophy What in the world of AI sycophancy is this? Omarchy's "philosophy" is what caused this dotfile disaster to reach for a lifeboat in the first place.

db48x 8d ago
Surely it is better to correct course than to avoid fixing the problem just because it would be hard. I do think that specific fix will be a hard sell, but you shouldn’t mock them just for considering it. And to characterize it as a “disaster” when it is merely a problem that worries them shows your own bias.
- bigyabai 7d ago
  My overall point is that anyone who doesn't want the Omarchy Arch experience can just use ordinary NixOS. Nothing that Omarchy provides is important, and many of the "philosophy" choices directly conflict with NixOS' systems. It's much worse than shipping your own custom Arch ISO, or putting your configuration.nix onto Github. NixOS will mislead and confuse the Mac/Arch expats that are this distro's target audience. Why should Omarchy fans cheer this on? I ask this as a NixOS user myself, I'd be pissed if I installed an Arch-like distro only to spend my time diagnosing broken AI-generated Nix modules, configuring an FHS sandbox and trying to install pkgbuilds. It's not a fix for the target audience and it just reeks of distrohopping to me.
  - db48x 7d ago
    That’s not a very useful point. Of course if people don’t want the Omarchy experience they can just use something else. That includes you. If it would annoy you then just don’t use it.
    - bigyabai 7d ago
      Many people did. You see, before Omarchy ever existed there was this thing called "Arch Linux" that was famously a tarpit for unemployed midwits and trend-chasing social media addicts. To nobody's surprise, curb-cutting a notoriously dangerous and poorly-designed distro does not give you a reliable or accessible system. We saw this with LARBS, ArchLabs, Regolith, Manjaro and now Omarchy too - shipping your dotfiles as an out-of-box experience for other people is 100% pure technical debt. It got so bad that GTK devs directly called on distros to stop shipping overidden defaults since it confuses developers and users both: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-theming-distros https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-the...
  - machomaster 7d ago
    > Nothing that Omarchy provides is important Hundreds of thousands on people beg to disagree.

lordkrandel 8d ago

Oh wait, talking again about that fascist ideologist? https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

machomaster 7d ago
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