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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

197 points by djfergus 1mo ago

euazOn 1mo ago
I highly encourage anyone e.g. on MacOS to get a cheap laptop and give Omarchy a try. My feeling of using this system compared to MacOS is a whole another level. And now one of the promises of Omarchy Quattro is that AI agents will help you tweak it to your liking very easily, avoiding having to spend dozens of hours ricing your system.
colesantiago 1mo ago
Isn’t Omarchy a vibe coded Linux distro with Claude? Seems you can just vibe code anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich. If this is needed for the “year of Linux on the desktop” have at it I guess.
- Exoristos 1mo ago
  It's Linux for very young men who don't use Linux.
  - Imustaskforhelp 1mo ago
    For what its worth, I am part of the very young men you mention* (currently 18) and I have talked to people my age on discord who use Linux. My opinion is that I think that cachyos is a much more suitable option over omarchy. Personally out of so many of the distros that I have tried including Omarchy, I found Cachyos to be somewhat perfectly balanced (atleast for me). So I highly recommend Cachyos if you haven't already! (On a side note: Fedora is something that I wish to try a bit more as well to be honest and for servers, I mostly use debian/ubuntu or alpine)
    - hiccuphippo 1mo ago
      You young people have it good. When I was 18 I started with Slackware.
      - Imustaskforhelp 1mo ago
        Yeah I must admit that Linux is good for us young people and it's certainly getting some more mass appeal. I have been a linux evangelist within my group and although there are a lot of things to complain in the world that we have inherited as the next generation, linux isn't one of them but rather the lack of knowledge about Linux (of how so many people don't know about it) might be it, which is the reason why I have tried to generally promote Linux. although I am on a mac now but I love Linux and I love it so much :) It was fun talking in college to one of my friends about how my PC used to boot from start in 3-5 seconds. (I was using archlinux + systemd boot manager, it was fast to boot!) I have read some Hackernews comment which went into more details of some issues in Linux of the time that you mention. I must admit that compared to it, its a smooth sail now and I wish to thank everyone within the open source contributing to it. What I and my generation/maybe next might be taking for granted is created from the sweet laborious efforts within open source by many folks like you and people who contributed to OSS in general. And I am not just talking about Linux, but also all the things around Linux like KDE, Gnome,Hyprland, Niri, waybar open source applications which support Linux and are actually becoming/are some really great tools, the list is just endless.) Thanks! I think the whole of Linux, its philosophy and its implementations is one of the things which does give me hope. I might be romanticizing it a bit now but isn't it so hopeful what groups of people from all around the world unite on to actually build a better future. I wonder how vastly things could've been different without Open source. Although OSS is having some issues right now in terms of moderation and AI spam, I hope that this is just a bump on a smooth road. It's just so cool. It just makes me so happy when I really think about it. It also joys me that maybe this comment is read by someone who has helped in all of it. It's not all roses and rainbows but when you see open source from its own completeness, zooming out. It's so nice on where we are and where from we have come and for that I must once again thank everyone involved. In short though, OSS in general is genuinely a gift to humanity. (Gentle reminder to please donate to relevant organizations which really need the funding/money folks!, Open source would really help from these donations.)
    - TiredOfLife 1mo ago
      I like and use CachyOS, but Omarchi runs on devices that can't even run CachyOS installer
  - osigurdson 1mo ago
    I installed Arch from scratch. Honestly, other than a couple of minor "squirrel catchers" associated with disk formatting it isn't that big of a deal. You don't have to be a graybeard monk to use Linux - Omarchy or not.
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  - Cakez0r 1mo ago
    What don't you like about Omarchy? I'm not young and I used Fedora before Omarchy. I think it's excellent
    - ThatMedicIsASpy 1mo ago
      The last state of Omarchy to me was its arch but a script to install that one guys dot files. Nobody has given me a reason to move of Fedora Atomics.
      - Cakez0r 1mo ago
        It was (pretty much) just dot files and curated software, although I think that description downplays the value of having a perfectly tuned system out of the box - like saying a log cabin is just a bunch of sticks. The assembly matters and the end result is something greater than the sum of its parts. That aside, the latest release (Quattro) has also added a bunch of bespoke software (technically quickshell configuration, if you don't want to call it software) which has added a new layer of polish. For my taste it has been a real joy to use and a lot of fun to explore and play around with. Could be worth checking out if you haven't looked in a while!
      - theshrike79 1mo ago
        Not a user, but from what I gather it does stuff like synchronize themes of ALL applications across the OS. So when you change the "omarchy" theme to something, every single application installed uses the same theme. They even paid money to get proper theming support added to software so they could do this. A bit beyond "dotfiles" IMO.
        Exoristos 1mo ago
        If you've used Linux enough, you understand that's done with dotfiles.
        Exoristos 1mo ago
        > They even paid money to get proper theming support added to software so they could do this. And doesn't this strike you as a little juvenile, and missing the point of the Linux application ecosystem?
  - philipallstar 1mo ago
    What makes it for very young men?
    - nphardon 1mo ago
      Noob friendly, I believe was the implication. Perhaps an implication that on average, the young are more attracted to the surface level ui features that omarchy amplifies, and the easyness of the installation. For us older heads, we also got into linux quite young, but there were not options for easy install, so the install was an integral part of the process that forced you to somewhat deeply learn your machine inside and out, and for me at least, that became a huge part of the appeal. Anecdotally, when i did my first install off a red hat disc in 1995 at age 14, i could not figure out how to configure xwindows so i just gave up and spent 4 solid years in the terminal. This was a formative experience in my life, and one that I would have missed out on if i started with omarchy.
      - philipallstar 1mo ago
        But why "men" if it's just about youth?
- embedding-shape 1mo ago
  > Seems you can just X anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich. Always been true, extra true for people who are "famous" in their niche(s).
- xiphias2 1mo ago
  First put $1M of your own money into a project then talk
  - colesantiago 1mo ago
    I’m assuming you’ve already put down $1M for someone else’s open source project this week?
    - xiphias2 1mo ago
      Have you read the announcement? He’s funding it not the other way. 7 people just matched it after he announced it.
      - colesantiago 1mo ago
        Is your name there? Are you part of the 7 that funded? No?
  - 7bit 1mo ago
    DHH is a multi millionaire. 1M are peanuts for him. So your comment is dumb
- jenniferhooley 1mo ago
  It definitely seems to be. However, if it helps to move Linux into the mainstream desktop choice. I'm all for it. Obviously I won't be using it any time soon - but if some rich dudes want to throw millions into marketing and getting Linux mainstream, seems like a net positive to me.
- beanjuiceII 1mo ago
  its a fantastic distro, i guess if its 'vibe coded' then vibe coding is capable of creating a high quality linux distro at this point
software_writer 1mo ago
Switching to Omarchy was one of the best decisions I made last year that improved my everyday computing experience so much, and introduced me to so many amazing tools like neovim, tmux, tiling window managers, Arch Linux, and countless TUIs.. Haven't touched my old MacBook this year at all. If you're in the market for a new laptop / operating system, I highly recommend you give it a try.
- nomilk 1mo ago
  Hadn't realised (until your comment) that Omarchy doesn't work on non-intel macs; that's a shame. https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-mac-support.md https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-m...
  - bigyabai 1mo ago
    Intel Macs have first party Linux drivers. They're much easier to support since they just behave like any normal x86 laptop would.
  - winstonlee 1mo ago
    Actually it does, thanks to the Ashahi Linux project. I'm using this fork on a M series https://github.com/malik-na/omarchy-mac https://github.com/malik-na/omarchy-mac Dual boot, it's not exactly the same as the main Omarchy, but it works fine out of the box. Software can be limited because not many packages has been compiled for ARM but we are software developers ;)
    - KetoManx64 1mo ago
      Almost always you can get the PKGBUILD file from either Arch Linux Gitlab or the AUR gitlab and just add the aarch64 version of the package to it and then install from that. I have an M1 and M2 macbook airs that I use for home/work and I think the only package I've actually hit a hard stop on is discord, everything else can just be built from source if they don't have a bin version..
- psp99 1mo ago
huslage 1mo ago
"what the malleable computer of the future looks like" ??? Excuse me? This is just a linux shell script repository. What is the point of having $8m to maintain a shell script?
- embedding-shape 1mo ago
  Might be shocking, but entirely true: They might have shared secret and private plans of what they're building to investors (donators?), where "malleable computer" is a part of those plans, and the full 100% implementation might not be in the source repository at this very moment. Just a guess from my side though, who knows, maybe shellscripts are what they see as malleable computers?
  - sroerick 1mo ago
    I think it's implemented and demoed in the Quattro release
- sroerick 1mo ago
  Omarchy Quattro is pretty dang good. It's a lot more than any shell script I've written, certainly. If you've written a more complex one I'd love to see it. Having agents in the default environment, having everything configurable through text files, and having default agents automatically file bug reports on crashes - these are tangible quality of life improvements that you can't get on other systems. Maybe Windows and MacOS should write some shell scripts.
  - hiccuphippo 1mo ago
    > default agents automatically file bug reports on crashes Is this only sending bug reports to Omarchy or to the upstream developers? I'm not sure many of them would be fond of AI slop bug reports en masse.
    - sroerick 1mo ago
      My understanding is that it only goes to Omarchy, and only with explicit permission from the user, so maybe "automatically" is a misnomer - but the diagnosis process feels very snappy
Pungsnigel 1mo ago
I have had so much fun with Omarchy! great news!
nealsales 1mo ago
I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday. I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primarily). There are tradeoffs, but I haven't enjoyed working on computers this much since the 2010 era, first learning to build web apps with Ruby on Rails. The distro is merely 6 gigs and takes minutes to install. And the video DHH just released Quattro with is worth a watch to get a feel for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE
- software_writer 1mo ago
  Same here. Using my ThinkPad became much more fun after I installed Omarchy on it.
  - nealsales 1mo ago
    Breathing new life into old hardware is such a refreshing feeling!
carterbeagle 1mo ago
Lots of negativity in this post. As someone who is an engineer and not a software engineer, this has improved my technical capability tremendously by giving me training wheels and removed decision paralysis because there's so much crap out there and everyone is so opinionated. I don't have time to try out pi and herdr and opencode and codex...
hmokiguess 1mo ago
Must be nice to have 1M to throw into hobby projects, happy for them.
tensegrist 1mo ago
insofar as this gets people off macos/windows and onto linux, especially among younger people where macos has managed to hold on to the position of a default that developers are comfortable e.g. being the only platform they support, this is a good thing imo the fact that it's largely hype-driven is par for the course for how things work these days
- Cakez0r 1mo ago
  The hype is real though. It's a great distro
  - tfrancisl 1mo ago
    Omarchy is not a distro.
    - jasonvorhe 1mo ago
      Not that again.
    - em-bee 1mo ago
      if it has a downloadable installer, it's a distro. it may not have been much on top of arch, but with that funding that may well change.
osigurdson 1mo ago
Does anyone have experience with Dell XPS / Omarchy/Arch and docking stations? I've had a lot of trouble getting it to work reliably with my ThinkPad. I'd switch if I knew it was plug and play on Arch/Omarchy.
tediousgraffit1 1mo ago
TIL a really good r/unixporn post is worth $8M
- dewey 1mo ago
  The better takeaway is that marketing is important and the technical details, don't always matter as much (https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/) as having a complete package. Similarly to how Apple often packages existing tech into an appealing package for the mass market and there's nothing wrong with that. DHH has the gift that he's both a good technologist, but also a good marketer.
  - TiredOfLife 1mo ago
    Your linked post has about nothing to do with omarchy today.
    - dewey 1mo ago
      It was not my intention to say that, I'm actually following it very closely and think Omarchy is a great way to get more people on Linux. A user friendly, pre-packaged and opinionated setup will convince more people than "Install Ubuntu and then learn how to administer Linux").
- em-bee 1mo ago
  more like DHH is worth that much. unlike the sister comment, i don't think it is marketing alone, if at all, but rather DHH networking and connections. it might be marketing in the sense that the people funding this believe that DHH is able to attract a lot of people. which is interesting given that he also has attracted some controversy recently.
sauercrowd 1mo ago
This is dope. Love to see any efforts to get Linux on the desktop more ready to use.
domenkozar 1mo ago
macOS is finally getting some serious competition with an open platform!
ksec 1mo ago
So this is announcement. I was thinking if it is going to be Omarchy Server edition. But reading the names of all founding members I can see why it is worth the hype. I guess for now most people will be trying Omarchy on their old PC laptops. Especially when new one is expensive. It would be great if there are certain test case or certification to make sure given laptops works with Omarchy. I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum. ChromeOS isn't one because most of it usage is like a consumption devices appliance used for education. And those Download numbers and Internet video views seems to back it up. There are roughly 30 - 50M professional software developers, I wouldn't be surprised if it is closer to 100M if we include hobbyist and other adjacent roles. Even if it is 10% of this market is a sizeable trunk. On the other hand it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. I hope we have more senior leadership changes in the coming months once John is officially CEO.
- bigyabai 1mo ago
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    - fnoef 1mo ago
      Oh wow. Wasn’t aware about DHHs opinions. Not thank I cared too much, but it kind of shows you why you should never look up to these people.
      - jasonvorhe 1mo ago
        Keep in mind that this is a blog post by someone who obviously doesn't like dhh very much, going so far as to prime everyone into reading exactly what he wants them to read instead of just linking to his posts. Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I would never publish something like this on community infrastructure that I'm contributing to. Shameful.
pnw 1mo ago
I installed Omarchy on an old laptop yesterday and was impressed with the smooth installation. The UI is definitely a different approach, I can see any developer who prefers the keyboard to the mouse would love it. Good to see some innovation. Desktop Linux feels like it has been stalled for years and needs new ideas. Also, having an AI to pre-flight compatibility issues and help with UEFI and BIOS configs makes life so much more pleasant.
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wofo 1mo ago
> We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! Let's go :)
crilopesp 1mo ago
I use it every day for work and it is really fun. It's different from Mac and takes a while to get the gist of it, but for me it has been worth it. I don't care if people see it as a hyped-up collection of scripts, it's calm and fun.
rramon 1mo ago
Was about to sell the parts of my old Haswell Hackintosh which I did replace with a M1 Mac Mini a couple of years ago after 10 years in use, but now I might just dust off my old Lian Li case build it back together for Omarchy as my dev and tinker machine. Still has double the RAM of my Mini..
nomilk 1mo ago
Related: DHH is appearing live on Primeagen's twitch/yt/kick channel in 5 min (10am PST). https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen
ancorevard 1mo ago
These guys are fighting the good fight.
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sankumsek 1mo ago
Can someone explain why I (a relatively Linux-naive engineer) would use Omarchy over Ubuntu or other popular distros? I'd like to take a look, but i'm having the hardest time understanding the value proposition.
- sroerick 1mo ago
  The demo video is comprehensive and impressive
- LudwigNagasena 1mo ago
  It’s Ruby on Rails in the world of distros. If you find other distros tasteless and unpolished, you may want to try Omarchy. At least that’s how I see it (I find most Linux distros and development frameworks tasteless and unpolished).
- TiredOfLife 1mo ago
  It takes less than a minute to install
- heymaikol 1mo ago
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- tfrancisl 1mo ago
  In my opinion, you wouldnt. You might sooner pick up a distro like Arch (which is what Omarchy uses; it is not a distro in itself) if you want to imperatively manage everything, or NixOS with basic hyprland or Plasma or COSMIC config, etc., and then you can declaratively handle your dots and config. Either of these routes would teach you more about Linux and give you the ability to build a simple desktop for your needs.
  - machomaster 1mo ago
    Your solution applies to people who want to tinker for the sake of tinkering. Not to the people/engineers who want to get stuff done, easily and efficiently.
meerita 1mo ago
I think a lot of people are missing what is genuinely positive about what DHH is doing here. Linux has never lacked great technology or brilliant engineers. What it has often lacked on the desktop is someone treating the whole experience as a coherent product: strong opinions, good defaults, UX, hardware support, and now serious long-term funding. A lot of organizations “promote Linux” by explaining why people should use it, while Omarchy is trying to build something that makes people want to use it. Hand on heart, Whether you personally like Omarchy or DHH is almost beside the point. Bringing this much energy, attention, money, and ambition to the Linux desktop is objectively a good thing for the ecosystem.
cnqso 1mo ago
Anything that gets hyprland on more devices is a beautiful thing in my book
ilaksh 1mo ago
I really want a good local LLM setup. It's kind of funny now that the best deal for LLMs is an M5 Macbook, Macs have become very uncool, especially I have been running Linux on my computers for over a decade. I guess people who aren't poor can afford a 5090 or even RTX 6000. Plus the latest Linux desktops look cooler.
mythz 1mo ago
Been a happy Omarchy user for over a year, it's changed how I work with lots of Hyprland grouped windows spread across multiple virtual desktops which I can easily get to each with just a few keystrokes, it's a pretty fluid workflow after you get used to the keybindings. Things I like about Omarchy: - Great job at blending Native Desktop, Web and CLI Apps - they launch & look the same - Polished themes - applied to most Apps (inc. running) - Built in installers for most dev tools, lets you get setup with most popular programming langs in a few secs - Built-in Windows (run in Docker container) great to have when you need it Also something I only started doing recently is whenever I hit any Linux issue I now just paste it into ChatGPT and let it fix it for me which saved a lot of time porting my customizations over to Quattro. There's now built-in support for passing the crash info to your default AI Agent when a process crashes. I'm using AI to power a lot of my desktop tasks now, even ended up buying Davinci Resolve yesterday since the paid version had scripting support which let me use ChatGPT to implement some video effects.
bastawhiz 1mo ago
I have a really hard time getting excited by this. I'm a Hey customer, and it's one of my biggest regrets. DHH promises a lot, then gets sidetracked with killing DEI or spending years migrating off AWS (for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any) or bending over backwards to have a framework to avoid front end frameworks or whatever the hot new flavor of the month is. Meanwhile, my Android app email client performs terribly when I'm on LTE (!) and I'm strong armed into using a calendar app that I don't want or need, while obvious spam and phishing emails routinely doesn't get caught and the search feature is less than useless. If changing email addresses was less tedious, I'd have done it already. I'll never trust DHH with another of his company's products, let alone trust him with my computer's operating system.
- javahippie 1mo ago
  I quit hey three years ago for the reason you listed and my hey.com email address forwards to my new address indefinitely. Don’t know if they changed that, but migrating away was pretty easy that way
  - bastawhiz 1mo ago
    The real issue for me is moving all the mail over. Since the organization is non standard, imap doesn't map cleanly and it all ends up being a huge mess. I'm not looking forward to getting collections and labels and whatever else untangled.
    - javahippie 1mo ago
      AFAIK I was able to download the whole archive, but yes, it was a file in my mailbox, syncing it back was too much hassle
- slig 1mo ago
  >for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any Did you really expect them to decrease the prices of the subscriptions given the massive amount of money they had to pay upfront for all that nvme storage?
xavdid 1mo ago
I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views: - https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i... - https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...
- colesantiago 1mo ago
  How do you feel that your boss funded this Linux distro? Do you think it is time to leave Stripe?
- jasonvorhe 1mo ago
  Interesting you chose to link to 2 hit peaces interpreting his political views from their perspective instead of his posts detailing those views directly.
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- throwawaypath 1mo ago
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- ilikehurdles 1mo ago
  But you do. You're a tech lead at Stripe and your CEO is a founding contributor to this foundation. This is what you fund with your labor. And if you weren't afraid of people coming to their own conclusion about DHH you could just link to his blog[1] rather than some literal marxist's opinions about his blog. Why not be intellectually honest and curious enough to state what someone says and point out what you disagree with directly rather than mimetically echo someone else's outrage? [1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh https://world.hey.com/dhh
- ramblerman 1mo ago
  It must get exhausting keeping track of what everybody thinks to know if a project is worthwhile. In this case, I hate to tell you - the owner of the company you work for invested a million into this. So... you should probably quit your job, unless this is all just performative outrage...
whalesalad 1mo ago
My gripe with omarchy is that it could be a script applied on top of bare arch or bare cachyos, i'm not sure why it needs to be a standalone distribution. Also try as I might - I cannot get down with hyprland. KDE for life! All this being said, positivity and investment in the Linux ecosystem is always a good thing.
- jasonvorhe 1mo ago
  Because it's easier and faster, you don't have to curl | sudo, you don't need to fiddle manually with networking and I could go on and on. > bUt UbUnTu iS jUsT DeBiAn aNd sOmE ScRipts
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- slig 1mo ago
  For a Linux user, you can already build such distro yourself quite trivially by getting some scripts and applying them on top of bare arch.
qainsights 1mo ago
Wondering why start a new foundation? Why not support the existing Linux distro? :thinking:
- whalesalad 1mo ago
  because these people all have fuck you money and it doesn't matter
- TiredOfLife 1mo ago
  Omarchy is the existing distro
  - qainsights 1mo ago
    I meant, other than Omarchy, e.g. Cachy OS.
    - rkpiotr 1mo ago
      Omarchy is a product for a different audience. CachyOS is focused on gaming and is recognized even by non-Linux users. Omarchy targets developers/engineers, and Dell and others have devices like the XPS line that are high-end for demanding users. When x86 Windows devices aren't directly competing with Apple - for example, Dell XPS is - it can be beneficial to pull more people to Omarchy and high-end non-Apple laptops ;) Not to mention the user base from which you can recruit engineers and developers.
heymaikol 1mo ago
I came to Omarchy from Arch. The value for me is that the whole keyboard-first environment comes assembled as one simple system instead of being a weekend of choosing and wiring together individual pieces. Omarchy is interesting because it treats the defaults themselves as the product.
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- whalesalad 1mo ago
  the rails way™
aus10d 1mo ago
This is absolutely incredible. And the caliber of the people funding it is incredible!
carlos-menezes 1mo ago
Maybe I am just incredibly ignorant, but isn't this just another Linux distro?
- tfrancisl 1mo ago
  It isnt a Linux distro, its dotfiles for Arch.
  - tommica 1mo ago
    + a few other things (for example their own package management repo), but yes, it's based on arch
  - coffeeling 1mo ago
    Not close to just dotfiles of Arch. It used to be that, sure. That was a year ago. Now they have their own packaging infrastructure going on, both different stages of Arch mirrors (stable is a ~month behind Arch to catch buggy packages and supply chain attacks) and run their own extra repository for other software. The Omarchy stuff isn't dotfiles, it's proper packages served by their own infrastructure nowadays.
biggestfan 1mo ago
I don't really get Omarchy, it seems like the hype is about "sensible defaults" when those defaults include a bunch of random paid software and links to websites DHH likes? (Plus all of 37signals offerings, of course.) I'm sure people use some of them, but I don't praise Android phones for preinstalling Facebook. https://omarchy.org/manual/commercial-apps-services/ https://omarchy.org/manual/commercial-apps-services/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/
- runjake 1mo ago
  You don't have to get it. Omarchy isn't for everyone and that's okay. There's a ton of other options. I've been using Omarchy since almost the beginning and it's been fantastic. I get a usable "power user" setup with very little tweaking. Omarchy is for me. > when those defaults include a bunch of random paid software and links to websites DHH likes? I'm not sure what you're talking about with "a bunch of random paid software". I've only seen a handful, they are sensible options, and they are not in your face. If you mean these apps[1] then most of Omarchy's user base uses most of them, and if they don't they're trivial to change. A huge portion of people use ChatGPT, Google apps, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, Discord and so on. If you look in Omarchy issues, it's pretty clear it's not just DHH dictating decisions, it's been a community effort. But again, it sounds like Omarchy probably isn't your cup of tea. 1. https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/
- jasonvorhe 1mo ago
  Quattro let's you easily clean all that up in a minute. I think even 3.x offered that somewhere but I'm not exactly sure if that just cleaned up the webapps.
siwatanejo 1mo ago
I hate the terminal.
thomascountz 1mo ago
What does an "exclusive sponsorship" of Hyperland mean?[1] Sorry for the rhetorical question. I think I mean, why does a foundation need to be the exclusive sponsor of a project? [1]: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-exclusive-hyprland-sponsor/ https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-exc...
- machomaster 1mo ago
  Means that they are fully covering all of his financial needs.
ilaksh 1mo ago
Google is telling me it doesn't support Nvidia drivers out of the box. That functionally defines it as a vanity project. Aside from the more surface level vanity.
- forshaper 1mo ago
  the Nvidia gpus on both machines I have Omarchy on worked out of the box
- matja 1mo ago
  It installed and runs perfectly on my VM with an RTX 4080 passed-though using VFIO. It uses the nvidia module rather than nouveau (at least on my GPU).
nchmy 1mo ago
I tried Omarchy 10 months ago. I liked how easy it all was, like the PWAs installed, etc... But I was completely lost with, and even offended by, how the tiling window manager worked. Windows were just moving around all over the place, changing sizes etc... It was by far the worst computing experience that I've had in a very long time. And it was particularly awful on a small laptop screen where you REALLY need to make the most of how your windows are arranged. After a couple days, I installed Pop!_OS and, despite its new COSMIC desktop having tiling-like features, I've been happy with its normal Windows-like UI, where I can just use windows/super key + arrow keys to move and resize windows to the side or corner of the screen, and they stay there. Yet, so many people are raving about tiling window managers. Surely it cant be as awful of an experience as I had. What was I doing wrong? Is there some configuration that I wasn't using in order to set preferences for applications or profiles or something?
- runjake 1mo ago
  > What was I doing wrong? Nothing. Tiling managers just have a bit of a steep learning curve. That said, I'd argue they're better about using space on small screens (no title bar, everything tiled efficiently, etc). The Omarchy Manual does a good job of covering it, but again, there's a learning curve. I was a late adopter to tiling, but now I can't do without it. I even use macOS and Windows tiled.
  - nchmy 1mo ago
    I just read the relevant Navigation doc and it sounds as hellish as i remember. I'm happy that folks are happy with it, but I'm sticking with traditional windows (in linux). https://omarchy.org/manual/navigation/ https://omarchy.org/manual/navigation/
    - runjake 1mo ago
      Sounds like a good plan. Like I said, it's not for everyone, and if it doesn't appeal to you, don't use it.
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maxlin 1mo ago
Love it. Installed Omarchy on a 30€ (yes) used Chromebook that is EOL. It fit the 32GB ssd and works surprisingly well. With a good keyboard and after getting used to everything being behind a keybind, I felt more in control with that PoS machine than I do on my battlestation.
rufugee 1mo ago
I've been daily driving it since July of 25. It's been an absolutely flawless experience. Never have I been more excited to be a long time Linux user.
everlearner 1mo ago
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lordkrandel 1mo ago
Ah that's it, the right wing extremist running for the bank
insane_dreamer 1mo ago
I've been a Linux user for ~25 years and this is the first I've heard of Omarchy. Who's the target user/audience?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1mo ago
  Not you, it's for those trying to switch from macos(maybe windows too) and needing sensible defaults until they figure out linux distros.
- em-bee 1mo ago
  because it's new. only spending more time on hackernews in the past year or so might have helped you find out sooner.
opengrass 1mo ago
> systemd Waste of money
duxup 1mo ago
Is $8m …. a lot to make something big happen here? I’m unsure how many devs and how much gets done with $8m.
- em-bee 1mo ago
  assuming that devs wanting to get paid to work on FOSS are not as demanding, so maybe 100k per year salary would be enough, then that would fund 80 years of one fulltime dev, or 8 years of 10 devs. 4 years of 20 devs. you get the picture. a lot can be done with that. a lot more if you are willing to fund devs in developing countries who can live on a fraction of that.

197 points by djfergus 1mo ago

I highly encourage anyone e.g. on MacOS to get a cheap laptop and give Omarchy a try. My feeling of using this system compared to MacOS is a whole another level. And now one of the promises of Omarchy Quattro is that AI agents will help you tweak it to your liking very easily, avoiding having to spend dozens of hours ricing your system.

colesantiago 1mo ago

Isn’t Omarchy a vibe coded Linux distro with Claude? Seems you can just vibe code anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich. If this is needed for the “year of Linux on the desktop” have at it I guess.

Exoristos 1mo ago
It's Linux for very young men who don't use Linux.
- Imustaskforhelp 1mo ago
  For what its worth, I am part of the very young men you mention* (currently 18) and I have talked to people my age on discord who use Linux. My opinion is that I think that cachyos is a much more suitable option over omarchy. Personally out of so many of the distros that I have tried including Omarchy, I found Cachyos to be somewhat perfectly balanced (atleast for me). So I highly recommend Cachyos if you haven't already! (On a side note: Fedora is something that I wish to try a bit more as well to be honest and for servers, I mostly use debian/ubuntu or alpine)
  - hiccuphippo 1mo ago
    You young people have it good. When I was 18 I started with Slackware.
    - Imustaskforhelp 1mo ago
      Yeah I must admit that Linux is good for us young people and it's certainly getting some more mass appeal. I have been a linux evangelist within my group and although there are a lot of things to complain in the world that we have inherited as the next generation, linux isn't one of them but rather the lack of knowledge about Linux (of how so many people don't know about it) might be it, which is the reason why I have tried to generally promote Linux. although I am on a mac now but I love Linux and I love it so much :) It was fun talking in college to one of my friends about how my PC used to boot from start in 3-5 seconds. (I was using archlinux + systemd boot manager, it was fast to boot!) I have read some Hackernews comment which went into more details of some issues in Linux of the time that you mention. I must admit that compared to it, its a smooth sail now and I wish to thank everyone within the open source contributing to it. What I and my generation/maybe next might be taking for granted is created from the sweet laborious efforts within open source by many folks like you and people who contributed to OSS in general. And I am not just talking about Linux, but also all the things around Linux like KDE, Gnome,Hyprland, Niri, waybar open source applications which support Linux and are actually becoming/are some really great tools, the list is just endless.) Thanks! I think the whole of Linux, its philosophy and its implementations is one of the things which does give me hope. I might be romanticizing it a bit now but isn't it so hopeful what groups of people from all around the world unite on to actually build a better future. I wonder how vastly things could've been different without Open source. Although OSS is having some issues right now in terms of moderation and AI spam, I hope that this is just a bump on a smooth road. It's just so cool. It just makes me so happy when I really think about it. It also joys me that maybe this comment is read by someone who has helped in all of it. It's not all roses and rainbows but when you see open source from its own completeness, zooming out. It's so nice on where we are and where from we have come and for that I must once again thank everyone involved. In short though, OSS in general is genuinely a gift to humanity. (Gentle reminder to please donate to relevant organizations which really need the funding/money folks!, Open source would really help from these donations.)
  - TiredOfLife 1mo ago
    I like and use CachyOS, but Omarchi runs on devices that can't even run CachyOS installer
- osigurdson 1mo ago
  I installed Arch from scratch. Honestly, other than a couple of minor "squirrel catchers" associated with disk formatting it isn't that big of a deal. You don't have to be a graybeard monk to use Linux - Omarchy or not.
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- Cakez0r 1mo ago
  What don't you like about Omarchy? I'm not young and I used Fedora before Omarchy. I think it's excellent
  - ThatMedicIsASpy 1mo ago
    The last state of Omarchy to me was its arch but a script to install that one guys dot files. Nobody has given me a reason to move of Fedora Atomics.
    - Cakez0r 1mo ago
      It was (pretty much) just dot files and curated software, although I think that description downplays the value of having a perfectly tuned system out of the box - like saying a log cabin is just a bunch of sticks. The assembly matters and the end result is something greater than the sum of its parts. That aside, the latest release (Quattro) has also added a bunch of bespoke software (technically quickshell configuration, if you don't want to call it software) which has added a new layer of polish. For my taste it has been a real joy to use and a lot of fun to explore and play around with. Could be worth checking out if you haven't looked in a while!
    - theshrike79 1mo ago
      Not a user, but from what I gather it does stuff like synchronize themes of ALL applications across the OS. So when you change the "omarchy" theme to something, every single application installed uses the same theme. They even paid money to get proper theming support added to software so they could do this. A bit beyond "dotfiles" IMO.
      - Exoristos 1mo ago
        If you've used Linux enough, you understand that's done with dotfiles.
      - Exoristos 1mo ago
        > They even paid money to get proper theming support added to software so they could do this. And doesn't this strike you as a little juvenile, and missing the point of the Linux application ecosystem?
- philipallstar 1mo ago
  What makes it for very young men?
  - nphardon 1mo ago
    Noob friendly, I believe was the implication. Perhaps an implication that on average, the young are more attracted to the surface level ui features that omarchy amplifies, and the easyness of the installation. For us older heads, we also got into linux quite young, but there were not options for easy install, so the install was an integral part of the process that forced you to somewhat deeply learn your machine inside and out, and for me at least, that became a huge part of the appeal. Anecdotally, when i did my first install off a red hat disc in 1995 at age 14, i could not figure out how to configure xwindows so i just gave up and spent 4 solid years in the terminal. This was a formative experience in my life, and one that I would have missed out on if i started with omarchy.
    - philipallstar 1mo ago
      But why "men" if it's just about youth?
embedding-shape 1mo ago
> Seems you can just X anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich. Always been true, extra true for people who are "famous" in their niche(s).
xiphias2 1mo ago
First put $1M of your own money into a project then talk
- colesantiago 1mo ago
  I’m assuming you’ve already put down $1M for someone else’s open source project this week?
  - xiphias2 1mo ago
    Have you read the announcement? He’s funding it not the other way. 7 people just matched it after he announced it.
    - colesantiago 1mo ago
      Is your name there? Are you part of the 7 that funded? No?
- 7bit 1mo ago
  DHH is a multi millionaire. 1M are peanuts for him. So your comment is dumb
jenniferhooley 1mo ago
It definitely seems to be. However, if it helps to move Linux into the mainstream desktop choice. I'm all for it. Obviously I won't be using it any time soon - but if some rich dudes want to throw millions into marketing and getting Linux mainstream, seems like a net positive to me.
beanjuiceII 1mo ago
its a fantastic distro, i guess if its 'vibe coded' then vibe coding is capable of creating a high quality linux distro at this point

software_writer 1mo ago

Switching to Omarchy was one of the best decisions I made last year that improved my everyday computing experience so much, and introduced me to so many amazing tools like neovim, tmux, tiling window managers, Arch Linux, and countless TUIs.. Haven't touched my old MacBook this year at all. If you're in the market for a new laptop / operating system, I highly recommend you give it a try.

nomilk 1mo ago
Hadn't realised (until your comment) that Omarchy doesn't work on non-intel macs; that's a shame. https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-mac-support.md https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-m...
- bigyabai 1mo ago
  Intel Macs have first party Linux drivers. They're much easier to support since they just behave like any normal x86 laptop would.
- winstonlee 1mo ago
  Actually it does, thanks to the Ashahi Linux project. I'm using this fork on a M series https://github.com/malik-na/omarchy-mac https://github.com/malik-na/omarchy-mac Dual boot, it's not exactly the same as the main Omarchy, but it works fine out of the box. Software can be limited because not many packages has been compiled for ARM but we are software developers ;)
  - KetoManx64 1mo ago
    Almost always you can get the PKGBUILD file from either Arch Linux Gitlab or the AUR gitlab and just add the aarch64 version of the package to it and then install from that. I have an M1 and M2 macbook airs that I use for home/work and I think the only package I've actually hit a hard stop on is discord, everything else can just be built from source if they don't have a bin version..
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huslage 1mo ago

"what the malleable computer of the future looks like" ??? Excuse me? This is just a linux shell script repository. What is the point of having $8m to maintain a shell script?

embedding-shape 1mo ago
Might be shocking, but entirely true: They might have shared secret and private plans of what they're building to investors (donators?), where "malleable computer" is a part of those plans, and the full 100% implementation might not be in the source repository at this very moment. Just a guess from my side though, who knows, maybe shellscripts are what they see as malleable computers?
- sroerick 1mo ago
  I think it's implemented and demoed in the Quattro release
sroerick 1mo ago
Omarchy Quattro is pretty dang good. It's a lot more than any shell script I've written, certainly. If you've written a more complex one I'd love to see it. Having agents in the default environment, having everything configurable through text files, and having default agents automatically file bug reports on crashes - these are tangible quality of life improvements that you can't get on other systems. Maybe Windows and MacOS should write some shell scripts.
- hiccuphippo 1mo ago
  > default agents automatically file bug reports on crashes Is this only sending bug reports to Omarchy or to the upstream developers? I'm not sure many of them would be fond of AI slop bug reports en masse.
  - sroerick 1mo ago
    My understanding is that it only goes to Omarchy, and only with explicit permission from the user, so maybe "automatically" is a misnomer - but the diagnosis process feels very snappy

Pungsnigel 1mo ago

I have had so much fun with Omarchy! great news!

nealsales 1mo ago

I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday. I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primarily). There are tradeoffs, but I haven't enjoyed working on computers this much since the 2010 era, first learning to build web apps with Ruby on Rails. The distro is merely 6 gigs and takes minutes to install. And the video DHH just released Quattro with is worth a watch to get a feel for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE

software_writer 1mo ago
Same here. Using my ThinkPad became much more fun after I installed Omarchy on it.
- nealsales 1mo ago
  Breathing new life into old hardware is such a refreshing feeling!

carterbeagle 1mo ago

Lots of negativity in this post. As someone who is an engineer and not a software engineer, this has improved my technical capability tremendously by giving me training wheels and removed decision paralysis because there's so much crap out there and everyone is so opinionated. I don't have time to try out pi and herdr and opencode and codex...

hmokiguess 1mo ago

Must be nice to have 1M to throw into hobby projects, happy for them.

tensegrist 1mo ago

insofar as this gets people off macos/windows and onto linux, especially among younger people where macos has managed to hold on to the position of a default that developers are comfortable e.g. being the only platform they support, this is a good thing imo the fact that it's largely hype-driven is par for the course for how things work these days

Cakez0r 1mo ago
The hype is real though. It's a great distro
- tfrancisl 1mo ago
  Omarchy is not a distro.
  - jasonvorhe 1mo ago
    Not that again.
  - em-bee 1mo ago
    if it has a downloadable installer, it's a distro. it may not have been much on top of arch, but with that funding that may well change.

osigurdson 1mo ago

Does anyone have experience with Dell XPS / Omarchy/Arch and docking stations? I've had a lot of trouble getting it to work reliably with my ThinkPad. I'd switch if I knew it was plug and play on Arch/Omarchy.

tediousgraffit1 1mo ago

TIL a really good r/unixporn post is worth $8M

dewey 1mo ago
The better takeaway is that marketing is important and the technical details, don't always matter as much (https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/) as having a complete package. Similarly to how Apple often packages existing tech into an appealing package for the mass market and there's nothing wrong with that. DHH has the gift that he's both a good technologist, but also a good marketer.
- TiredOfLife 1mo ago
  Your linked post has about nothing to do with omarchy today.
  - dewey 1mo ago
    It was not my intention to say that, I'm actually following it very closely and think Omarchy is a great way to get more people on Linux. A user friendly, pre-packaged and opinionated setup will convince more people than "Install Ubuntu and then learn how to administer Linux").
em-bee 1mo ago
more like DHH is worth that much. unlike the sister comment, i don't think it is marketing alone, if at all, but rather DHH networking and connections. it might be marketing in the sense that the people funding this believe that DHH is able to attract a lot of people. which is interesting given that he also has attracted some controversy recently.

sauercrowd 1mo ago

This is dope. Love to see any efforts to get Linux on the desktop more ready to use.

domenkozar 1mo ago

macOS is finally getting some serious competition with an open platform!

ksec 1mo ago

So this is announcement. I was thinking if it is going to be Omarchy Server edition. But reading the names of all founding members I can see why it is worth the hype. I guess for now most people will be trying Omarchy on their old PC laptops. Especially when new one is expensive. It would be great if there are certain test case or certification to make sure given laptops works with Omarchy. I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum. ChromeOS isn't one because most of it usage is like a consumption devices appliance used for education. And those Download numbers and Internet video views seems to back it up. There are roughly 30 - 50M professional software developers, I wouldn't be surprised if it is closer to 100M if we include hobbyist and other adjacent roles. Even if it is 10% of this market is a sizeable trunk. On the other hand it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. I hope we have more senior leadership changes in the coming months once John is officially CEO.

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  - fnoef 1mo ago
    Oh wow. Wasn’t aware about DHHs opinions. Not thank I cared too much, but it kind of shows you why you should never look up to these people.
    - jasonvorhe 1mo ago
      Keep in mind that this is a blog post by someone who obviously doesn't like dhh very much, going so far as to prime everyone into reading exactly what he wants them to read instead of just linking to his posts. Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I would never publish something like this on community infrastructure that I'm contributing to. Shameful.

pnw 1mo ago

I installed Omarchy on an old laptop yesterday and was impressed with the smooth installation. The UI is definitely a different approach, I can see any developer who prefers the keyboard to the mouse would love it. Good to see some innovation. Desktop Linux feels like it has been stalled for years and needs new ideas. Also, having an AI to pre-flight compatibility issues and help with UEFI and BIOS configs makes life so much more pleasant.

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wofo 1mo ago

> We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! Let's go :)

crilopesp 1mo ago

I use it every day for work and it is really fun. It's different from Mac and takes a while to get the gist of it, but for me it has been worth it. I don't care if people see it as a hyped-up collection of scripts, it's calm and fun.

rramon 1mo ago

Was about to sell the parts of my old Haswell Hackintosh which I did replace with a M1 Mac Mini a couple of years ago after 10 years in use, but now I might just dust off my old Lian Li case build it back together for Omarchy as my dev and tinker machine. Still has double the RAM of my Mini..

nomilk 1mo ago

Related: DHH is appearing live on Primeagen's twitch/yt/kick channel in 5 min (10am PST). https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen

ancorevard 1mo ago

These guys are fighting the good fight.

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sankumsek 1mo ago

Can someone explain why I (a relatively Linux-naive engineer) would use Omarchy over Ubuntu or other popular distros? I'd like to take a look, but i'm having the hardest time understanding the value proposition.

sroerick 1mo ago
The demo video is comprehensive and impressive
LudwigNagasena 1mo ago
It’s Ruby on Rails in the world of distros. If you find other distros tasteless and unpolished, you may want to try Omarchy. At least that’s how I see it (I find most Linux distros and development frameworks tasteless and unpolished).
TiredOfLife 1mo ago
It takes less than a minute to install
heymaikol 1mo ago
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tfrancisl 1mo ago
In my opinion, you wouldnt. You might sooner pick up a distro like Arch (which is what Omarchy uses; it is not a distro in itself) if you want to imperatively manage everything, or NixOS with basic hyprland or Plasma or COSMIC config, etc., and then you can declaratively handle your dots and config. Either of these routes would teach you more about Linux and give you the ability to build a simple desktop for your needs.
- machomaster 1mo ago
  Your solution applies to people who want to tinker for the sake of tinkering. Not to the people/engineers who want to get stuff done, easily and efficiently.

meerita 1mo ago

I think a lot of people are missing what is genuinely positive about what DHH is doing here. Linux has never lacked great technology or brilliant engineers. What it has often lacked on the desktop is someone treating the whole experience as a coherent product: strong opinions, good defaults, UX, hardware support, and now serious long-term funding. A lot of organizations “promote Linux” by explaining why people should use it, while Omarchy is trying to build something that makes people want to use it. Hand on heart, Whether you personally like Omarchy or DHH is almost beside the point. Bringing this much energy, attention, money, and ambition to the Linux desktop is objectively a good thing for the ecosystem.

cnqso 1mo ago

Anything that gets hyprland on more devices is a beautiful thing in my book

ilaksh 1mo ago

I really want a good local LLM setup. It's kind of funny now that the best deal for LLMs is an M5 Macbook, Macs have become very uncool, especially I have been running Linux on my computers for over a decade. I guess people who aren't poor can afford a 5090 or even RTX 6000. Plus the latest Linux desktops look cooler.

mythz 1mo ago

Been a happy Omarchy user for over a year, it's changed how I work with lots of Hyprland grouped windows spread across multiple virtual desktops which I can easily get to each with just a few keystrokes, it's a pretty fluid workflow after you get used to the keybindings. Things I like about Omarchy: - Great job at blending Native Desktop, Web and CLI Apps - they launch & look the same - Polished themes - applied to most Apps (inc. running) - Built in installers for most dev tools, lets you get setup with most popular programming langs in a few secs - Built-in Windows (run in Docker container) great to have when you need it Also something I only started doing recently is whenever I hit any Linux issue I now just paste it into ChatGPT and let it fix it for me which saved a lot of time porting my customizations over to Quattro. There's now built-in support for passing the crash info to your default AI Agent when a process crashes. I'm using AI to power a lot of my desktop tasks now, even ended up buying Davinci Resolve yesterday since the paid version had scripting support which let me use ChatGPT to implement some video effects.

bastawhiz 1mo ago

I have a really hard time getting excited by this. I'm a Hey customer, and it's one of my biggest regrets. DHH promises a lot, then gets sidetracked with killing DEI or spending years migrating off AWS (for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any) or bending over backwards to have a framework to avoid front end frameworks or whatever the hot new flavor of the month is. Meanwhile, my Android app email client performs terribly when I'm on LTE (!) and I'm strong armed into using a calendar app that I don't want or need, while obvious spam and phishing emails routinely doesn't get caught and the search feature is less than useless. If changing email addresses was less tedious, I'd have done it already. I'll never trust DHH with another of his company's products, let alone trust him with my computer's operating system.

javahippie 1mo ago
I quit hey three years ago for the reason you listed and my hey.com email address forwards to my new address indefinitely. Don’t know if they changed that, but migrating away was pretty easy that way
- bastawhiz 1mo ago
  The real issue for me is moving all the mail over. Since the organization is non standard, imap doesn't map cleanly and it all ends up being a huge mess. I'm not looking forward to getting collections and labels and whatever else untangled.
  - javahippie 1mo ago
    AFAIK I was able to download the whole archive, but yes, it was a file in my mailbox, syncing it back was too much hassle
slig 1mo ago
>for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any Did you really expect them to decrease the prices of the subscriptions given the massive amount of money they had to pay upfront for all that nvme storage?

xavdid 1mo ago

I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views: - https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i... - https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

colesantiago 1mo ago
How do you feel that your boss funded this Linux distro? Do you think it is time to leave Stripe?
jasonvorhe 1mo ago
Interesting you chose to link to 2 hit peaces interpreting his political views from their perspective instead of his posts detailing those views directly.
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ilikehurdles 1mo ago
But you do. You're a tech lead at Stripe and your CEO is a founding contributor to this foundation. This is what you fund with your labor. And if you weren't afraid of people coming to their own conclusion about DHH you could just link to his blog[1] rather than some literal marxist's opinions about his blog. Why not be intellectually honest and curious enough to state what someone says and point out what you disagree with directly rather than mimetically echo someone else's outrage? [1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh https://world.hey.com/dhh
ramblerman 1mo ago
It must get exhausting keeping track of what everybody thinks to know if a project is worthwhile. In this case, I hate to tell you - the owner of the company you work for invested a million into this. So... you should probably quit your job, unless this is all just performative outrage...

whalesalad 1mo ago

My gripe with omarchy is that it could be a script applied on top of bare arch or bare cachyos, i'm not sure why it needs to be a standalone distribution. Also try as I might - I cannot get down with hyprland. KDE for life! All this being said, positivity and investment in the Linux ecosystem is always a good thing.

jasonvorhe 1mo ago
Because it's easier and faster, you don't have to curl | sudo, you don't need to fiddle manually with networking and I could go on and on. > bUt UbUnTu iS jUsT DeBiAn aNd sOmE ScRipts
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slig 1mo ago
For a Linux user, you can already build such distro yourself quite trivially by getting some scripts and applying them on top of bare arch.

qainsights 1mo ago

Wondering why start a new foundation? Why not support the existing Linux distro? :thinking:

whalesalad 1mo ago
because these people all have fuck you money and it doesn't matter
TiredOfLife 1mo ago
Omarchy is the existing distro
- qainsights 1mo ago
  I meant, other than Omarchy, e.g. Cachy OS.
  - rkpiotr 1mo ago
    Omarchy is a product for a different audience. CachyOS is focused on gaming and is recognized even by non-Linux users. Omarchy targets developers/engineers, and Dell and others have devices like the XPS line that are high-end for demanding users. When x86 Windows devices aren't directly competing with Apple - for example, Dell XPS is - it can be beneficial to pull more people to Omarchy and high-end non-Apple laptops ;) Not to mention the user base from which you can recruit engineers and developers.

heymaikol 1mo ago

I came to Omarchy from Arch. The value for me is that the whole keyboard-first environment comes assembled as one simple system instead of being a weekend of choosing and wiring together individual pieces. Omarchy is interesting because it treats the defaults themselves as the product.

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whalesalad 1mo ago
the rails way™

aus10d 1mo ago

This is absolutely incredible. And the caliber of the people funding it is incredible!

carlos-menezes 1mo ago

Maybe I am just incredibly ignorant, but isn't this just another Linux distro?

tfrancisl 1mo ago
It isnt a Linux distro, its dotfiles for Arch.
- tommica 1mo ago
  + a few other things (for example their own package management repo), but yes, it's based on arch
- coffeeling 1mo ago
  Not close to just dotfiles of Arch. It used to be that, sure. That was a year ago. Now they have their own packaging infrastructure going on, both different stages of Arch mirrors (stable is a ~month behind Arch to catch buggy packages and supply chain attacks) and run their own extra repository for other software. The Omarchy stuff isn't dotfiles, it's proper packages served by their own infrastructure nowadays.

biggestfan 1mo ago

I don't really get Omarchy, it seems like the hype is about "sensible defaults" when those defaults include a bunch of random paid software and links to websites DHH likes? (Plus all of 37signals offerings, of course.) I'm sure people use some of them, but I don't praise Android phones for preinstalling Facebook. https://omarchy.org/manual/commercial-apps-services/ https://omarchy.org/manual/commercial-apps-services/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/

runjake 1mo ago
You don't have to get it. Omarchy isn't for everyone and that's okay. There's a ton of other options. I've been using Omarchy since almost the beginning and it's been fantastic. I get a usable "power user" setup with very little tweaking. Omarchy is for me. > when those defaults include a bunch of random paid software and links to websites DHH likes? I'm not sure what you're talking about with "a bunch of random paid software". I've only seen a handful, they are sensible options, and they are not in your face. If you mean these apps[1] then most of Omarchy's user base uses most of them, and if they don't they're trivial to change. A huge portion of people use ChatGPT, Google apps, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, Discord and so on. If you look in Omarchy issues, it's pretty clear it's not just DHH dictating decisions, it's been a community effort. But again, it sounds like Omarchy probably isn't your cup of tea. 1. https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/ https://omarchy.org/manual/web-apps/
jasonvorhe 1mo ago
Quattro let's you easily clean all that up in a minute. I think even 3.x offered that somewhere but I'm not exactly sure if that just cleaned up the webapps.

siwatanejo 1mo ago

I hate the terminal.

thomascountz 1mo ago

What does an "exclusive sponsorship" of Hyperland mean?[1] Sorry for the rhetorical question. I think I mean, why does a foundation need to be the exclusive sponsor of a project? [1]: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-exclusive-hyprland-sponsor/ https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-exc...

machomaster 1mo ago
Means that they are fully covering all of his financial needs.

ilaksh 1mo ago

Google is telling me it doesn't support Nvidia drivers out of the box. That functionally defines it as a vanity project. Aside from the more surface level vanity.

forshaper 1mo ago
the Nvidia gpus on both machines I have Omarchy on worked out of the box
matja 1mo ago
It installed and runs perfectly on my VM with an RTX 4080 passed-though using VFIO. It uses the nvidia module rather than nouveau (at least on my GPU).

nchmy 1mo ago

I tried Omarchy 10 months ago. I liked how easy it all was, like the PWAs installed, etc... But I was completely lost with, and even offended by, how the tiling window manager worked. Windows were just moving around all over the place, changing sizes etc... It was by far the worst computing experience that I've had in a very long time. And it was particularly awful on a small laptop screen where you REALLY need to make the most of how your windows are arranged. After a couple days, I installed Pop!_OS and, despite its new COSMIC desktop having tiling-like features, I've been happy with its normal Windows-like UI, where I can just use windows/super key + arrow keys to move and resize windows to the side or corner of the screen, and they stay there. Yet, so many people are raving about tiling window managers. Surely it cant be as awful of an experience as I had. What was I doing wrong? Is there some configuration that I wasn't using in order to set preferences for applications or profiles or something?

runjake 1mo ago
> What was I doing wrong? Nothing. Tiling managers just have a bit of a steep learning curve. That said, I'd argue they're better about using space on small screens (no title bar, everything tiled efficiently, etc). The Omarchy Manual does a good job of covering it, but again, there's a learning curve. I was a late adopter to tiling, but now I can't do without it. I even use macOS and Windows tiled.
- nchmy 1mo ago
  I just read the relevant Navigation doc and it sounds as hellish as i remember. I'm happy that folks are happy with it, but I'm sticking with traditional windows (in linux). https://omarchy.org/manual/navigation/ https://omarchy.org/manual/navigation/
  - runjake 1mo ago
    Sounds like a good plan. Like I said, it's not for everyone, and if it doesn't appeal to you, don't use it.
  - embedding-shape 1mo ago

maxlin 1mo ago

Love it. Installed Omarchy on a 30€ (yes) used Chromebook that is EOL. It fit the 32GB ssd and works surprisingly well. With a good keyboard and after getting used to everything being behind a keybind, I felt more in control with that PoS machine than I do on my battlestation.

rufugee 1mo ago

I've been daily driving it since July of 25. It's been an absolutely flawless experience. Never have I been more excited to be a long time Linux user.

everlearner 1mo ago

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lordkrandel 1mo ago

Ah that's it, the right wing extremist running for the bank

insane_dreamer 1mo ago

I've been a Linux user for ~25 years and this is the first I've heard of Omarchy. Who's the target user/audience?

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1mo ago
Not you, it's for those trying to switch from macos(maybe windows too) and needing sensible defaults until they figure out linux distros.
em-bee 1mo ago
because it's new. only spending more time on hackernews in the past year or so might have helped you find out sooner.

opengrass 1mo ago

> systemd Waste of money

duxup 1mo ago

Is $8m …. a lot to make something big happen here? I’m unsure how many devs and how much gets done with $8m.

em-bee 1mo ago
assuming that devs wanting to get paid to work on FOSS are not as demanding, so maybe 100k per year salary would be enough, then that would fund 80 years of one fulltime dev, or 8 years of 10 devs. 4 years of 20 devs. you get the picture. a lot can be done with that. a lot more if you are willing to fund devs in developing countries who can live on a fraction of that.