“Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer”
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Props to Lemmy for doing… something… with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.
Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don’t see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don’t know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. “Hey kid, want to try some Linux?”
The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.
I don’t actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
I don’t see how this can be taken seriously;
That’s because you’re thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn’t to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.
Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.
According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch’s installer take literally 5 times the disk space?
EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦
In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS,
from macOS? what happened there?
off the top of my head: apple dropping rosetta2 (the x86/amd64 compat layer), extreme focus on apple intellidunce, a variety of desktop-related things constantly just getting a bit worse (music.app is currently completely broken for shortcut/automation control), and things like trying to push the macos desktop to be far more like the ios ui (see e.g. the shit they’ve done with settings dialog)
apple’s focuses are all in places and things that no-one wants, but they’re too stubborn to listen to any feedback
That’s fine for the users, they’ve always responded with copium and deepthroating any feature, flaw, or lack thereof either.
I don’t think mac users are capable of being actually critical of mac.
…the random fucking driveby posts in reply to a mac user
It is 1998, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
It is 2005, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
It is 2025, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
