I wasn't sure what to make of claims that this random techbro is a fascist, so I decided to look for clues. I found this article from last month in minutes, and after reading it, I require no further convincing. Guy's a Nazi whether he knows it or not.
Quote from end of your linked article. Note he talks about humans:
When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.
No, because until the dot-com era when "tech bros" first became a thing, a lot of the computing pioneers were leftist/hippie counterculture types. Think MIT AI Lab (RMS), The Homebrew Computer Club (Woz, Captain Crunch), Germany's Chaos Computer Club, etc.
Further reading:
There seems to be a notable amount of FOSS coders of the old guard (90s til 00s) that are like that.
I long frequented a place called linuxquestions.org. You wouldn't believe how right-wing to libertarian most of the people there were. Still are I guess.
Some gained status (Ruby on Rails was a big thing 1 or 2 decades back) and started spouting things because they knew people were listening.
Some people in such communities recognize that there's something off here, and they have this excuse ready: all coders/nerds are basically on the spectrum (they don't phrase it like this though) and don't know how to phrase things politely, they just blurt it out.
As if that makes things better when you think like that guy.
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EUGHH.. fuckin gross...
Guy's a Nazi whether he knows it or not.
He knows it. He just doesn't admit it.
Ugh, I stopped reading when he segued from wolves being a danger to humans straight into the "gypsy problem" 🤮
Also had a look at the site for this distro, he really seems to like cars and seems to be pretty full of himself about some neither-new-nor-original arch+tiling_wm distro.
Thanks, fixed
Made me look at helix, which actually works better for my usecase. So I guess I gotta thank him for that?
Helix is amazing anyway.
If anyone is interested in a more thorough and recent write-up of why many of us call DHH fash, this gnome blog post is pretty good: https://blogs.gnome.org/...
You either log off a hero, or you see yourself create another linux distribution, and having failed the first part, DHH has been pouring his energy into creating a new project.
That line sent me.
WHOA. Bombastic claim there, brah.
He's a Eugenics aficionado, and racist-ADJACENT
They don’t actually understand what Nazis or fascism even are. They treat it all like a weird sports team thing where everything is just a derogatory word for things you don’t like. They’ll never see they are the bad guys. Not capable of it or they wouldn’t be this way to begin with.
as a fellow dane, david is the corniest type of danish guy.. a dork turned fascist because of built up resentment.
He has 100% been a Assmongold viewer if he isnt still, and probably knows wayy too much about trans people in womens sports despite not knowing a single shit about medically transitioning
ive had my share of encounters with his type.
also if you listen to 10 seconds of any podcast with him you'll hear him say the r slur like 20 times. when I first heard about him two or so years ago, this was my first red flag. I immediately paused and checked his blog... yep fucking nazi piece of shit
To use WSB slang - Regard I assume.
The more power such people have in such positions, the more money they get, the worse it gets. And the bigger the cult might get, which could suck people into the views and so on. Do not underestimate that.
It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.
Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a "we think this is the future of Linux" vibe investment.
Its not the future of Linux, most likely a fad. The most it will be is a cult OS used by people on the far right.
The only thing good I can say about it is that it has interested some people into Linux because of how all of the components are unique compared to Mac and Windows. Cosmic could be the main stream option for those users once it becomes more stable.
because it's not about a quality OS, it's about being a hive for people to take advantage of others, and because the founder personally made connections to the people that publically gave him money.
Omarchy is just a bunch of dotfiles in a Hugo Boss trenchcoat pretending to be a linux distribution.
Utterly untrue, it's also an AI slop website with a dumb little icon bouncing around listing his insecurities.
Its time to let go of Ubuntu and Manjaro as meme distros. Omarchy is the new meme.
Easier than said, if it gets this much attention, recommendation and money support. We should not ignore it, but tell people (like the linked post). So they can make an informed decision.
I use the word "meme" very lightly here, which is a mixture of hate, second-hand embarrassment, making fun of the distro and its users and so on. For the issues it had in the past and being no longer trustworthy for many. Also people meme about Ubuntu for the Snaps, and the focus on Rust (I personally like Rust...), being best friend with Microsoft and so on.
I wouldn't take that statement too seriously, some people really like to gatekeep. The simple fact is that Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux more accessible to a lot of people who otherwise would still be using another OS. That also makes it an easy target for ridicule.
Having said that, they also made a lot of unpopular decisions, especially amongst Linux purists.
Ubuntu was my first Linux distro and I liked it back then. I would've recommended the old Ubuntu to non-tech-savvy people, or people who want a Linux that "just works" (although back then no Linux "just worked", there was always at least a bit of debugging for me). However it's enshittified a lot. A lot of basic software is only available as snaps. It generally feels quite corporate these days.
Man I love this thread, I was starting to think I was the unreasonable one for thinking Omarchy is a hyped PoS dotfile skin. To learn it goes deeper into a fascists plaything is wild to me, I got some good intuition I guess.
When I explained X11 on FreeBSD to Windows users 25 years ago, I said, "you start from the pretty side and work towards the ugly. I start on the ugly side and make it pretty."
Omarchy is turning a perfectly decent OS and putting a pig outfit on it and giving it lipstick, then calling it pretty.
hows BSD for everyday use compare to linux?
That's fucking delicious. I am so not surprised that people who focus only on aesthetics (by that I mean those behind omarchy and hyprland) would fuck up the most basic things where substance has any importance. Aesthetics is for idiots! I will never want the Linux desktop to take over because of coolness, I want the software that attacks important questions to take over. These reactionaries have proven themselves to be utterly incompetent once again, and they will continue to prove their incompetence because they all lack insight and think of themselves as being god's chosen ones.
Are there any hard forks or similar to Hyperland that are for Wayland? I was going to try it on my Pi5 (it is my main "messing with random Linux stuff" device that I don't care if I break something), but then I saw people talking about the far-right/fascist stuff and didn't bother. It looked nice when I saw people in random videos running it (wasn't the focus of the videos and just stood-out).
I know there are other well known tiled window managers which I might end up trying since I keep meaning to see how I take to them. The look of Hyperland is nice with some stacked window manager elements if needed (which I imagine other projects also have). I just don't know which TWM projects are "better" (for starting with coming from only using SWM). Some level of aesthetics would be nice but am fine with adding after install.
Have you checked Niri?
I hadn't, but it certainly has some aesthetics that look cool! Will for sure try it out since it the other two commenters seem to like it. Really happy to have a few options to know about so quickly. Thank you!
Seconding Niri, but also I've seen swayfx setups that have Hyprland-like aesthetics.
If you don't care about fancy effects, I've been a river user for years and I like it. Nowadays it is just a compositor and the WM is separate, but river-classic (which includes a WM) has a dwm-like tag system, is programmatically configured (ie you speak to the river IPC in any language of your choosing—by default it's a shell script but the WM just executes ~/.config/river/init on startup, so that file can be any executable), and is simple and lightweight. The new 0.4.x release separates the compositor and WM, so you can pick or write your own WM that suits your own workflow/use-case, if that's your thing—it might not be if you don't want customisability and you just want something that makes the decisions for you to a good enough standard.
My favourite WM has always been dwm. The default keybinds are absolutely awesome, and its default looks are just fine for me. Though it's not really all that usable without patches/other suckless tools.
Omarchy is AI coded slop made by a white supremacist. lol. Lmao even
If you use Omarchy, remove the Om and the y to get an actually good distro :P
The tech world is already filled with fascists, let's not allow one more to crawl in. Don't use tools from that human shaped turd
This isn't limited to Omarchy. It's part of the way Docker works.
Do other distros default to placing your user in the docker group though? That's the issue here.
That I'm not sure about. It's part of the official install docs for docker, though there is a big scary warning saying that that group gives you root permissions. Either way, I place the fault on docker more than Omarchy directly since it's a group that gets automatically when you install it on any distro.
It’s part of the official install docs for docker
Not true.
The "add user to docker group" thing is not part of the install instructions (also, there is no official install docs for arch - but that's a moot point), it's in a separate document that literally starts with [emphasis mine] "These optional post-installation procedures describe how to configure your Linux host machine to work better with Docker" and contains a big orange box warning about that being part of the docker group is equivalent to being root.
Even if you think the docker doc could trick a newbie into thinking it's ok to make your user part of the docker group (which I'd argue it doesn't), you have to consider that:
- distros should be made by people who actually know what they are doing
- people who package something for an arch-based distro should at least read the arch wiki (which also clearly warns about the docker group)
- this whole thing is a very well known issue of a very well known software package, something that anyone who ever used docker with any seriousness (and most of the people who chose podman instead) knows very well
You can say that the whole "docker group" thing is a very stupid idea and that it's existence is squarely on the docker's devs, and you could even argue that it's a trap, but there cannot be any doubt that falling for this trap (that has big "this is a trap!" signs all over) is a major blunder for a distro.
it’s a group that gets automatically when you install it on any distro.
The issue is not the group existing, the issue is your user being part of that group.
Yes, you can make your user part of the docker group if you so chose, but distros should not make that very unwise choice for you per default (just as they shouldn't set things up to encourage you logging in as root or configure passwordless sudo for your user).
The fault isn't with docker though, they don't add your user to the docker group, it's an optional step the user needs to take.
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