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Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
- cedws 2mo ago$10M for a Linux rice… seriously?
- nolist_policy 2mo agoIt's what happens when tech bros run a Linux distro https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/the-omarchy-core-team/ https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/the-omarchy-core-team/
- Gualdrapo 2mo agoStill it's really weird imho - there are many projects that are the foundation of many important things are struggling finantially (maybe even Arch itself, which its apparently the base of this thing) yet these people have this absurd amount of money to spend on linux ai slop. Sounds like another example of "money is in the wrong hands" but well. Hoping the projects this thing depends on can get some benefits from this and that this won't be a similar case like the linux foundation.
- porridgeraisin 2mo agoThe money is for hyprland, quickshell, their security team (they have their own package repo, AUR is off by default) and such.
- philipallstar 2mo agoLinux (and all OSes) and computers in general are what you get when tech bros are let loose on the world.
- dgellow 2mo agoThe term tech bro is a pejorative for men who work in tech who are obnoxious, often sexist, have an inflated ego, and are generally pretty toxic for everybody around. And are now very aligned with American nationalism and reactionary ideas. It’s not really something you should be proud of. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_bro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_bro
- philipallstar 2mo agoYes of course it's a gossipy, zero-cost, zero-evidence, sexist (against men, natch) pejorative.
- dgellow 2mo agoNever heard of omarchy. > Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH That’s really a lot of money to raise for a Linux distribution. And with investors^Wpatrons such as Lütke and Dorsey, and DHH at the head it’s for sure something I wouldn‘t touch with a 10km long pole
- vincnetas 2mo agowhats wrong with Lütke or Dorsey?
- dewey 2mo agoThat was the recent criticism: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-endorses-idea-to-give-more-votes-to-wealthy-canadians-9.7286688 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-endorses-idea-to-...
- vincnetas 2mo agoThats kinda neat idea : who suggested an electoral system of "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay," But i would go not for absolute amount of tax paid, but for relative tax paid with some floors and ceilings. pay effective rate of 30% (or less) income, get one vote. Pay 50% or less, get two, pay above 50% get three. Pay less than 10% - no vote for you !!!
- mpalmer 2mo agoBarely even a "distro"; it's built atop Arch.
- dijit 2mo agoOpinions are apparently valuable. Bit weird, but I support anything that lessens Microsoft domination. Especially with Apple losing their way.
- software_writer 2mo ago> Opinions are apparently valuable. I'd think so, given the same opinions when applied to a programming framework have generated hundreds of billions of enterprise value in the past.
- dewey 2mo agoA lot of companies are built on the principle of having an opinionated way of doing things.
- TiredOfLife 2mo agoThe main reason Omarchy exists is Apple
- JSR_FDED 2mo agoDHH is like Elon - at some point the personal brand tarnishes the project.
- schnebbau 2mo agoFor you.
- Vaslo 2mo agoNot if you see the ridiculous codes of conduct projects like Gnome and Nix have - many were begging for an alternative path and DHH brought it. Congrats to him for delivering on it!
- dgellow 2mo agoThere has always existed alternatives to Gnome and Nix.
- kotaKat 2mo agoThe entire thing is a who's who of fashtech (and those self-identifying with it) and it's gross. Skinheads unite, I guess.
- philipallstar 2mo agoOnly because the definition of fascism changed completely, and got devalued into just "maintaining a border is fascism". So actual fascists are now ignored because who can tell who really is or isn't one?
- dgellow 2mo agoYou’ve lost the plot if you seriously think that’s the case
- philipallstar 2mo agoWhich bit?
- epolanski 2mo agoI'm quite positive to be honest. It's a linux distribution focused on a specific type of user (a software developer) that drops the Linux-typical approach to UX of "doesn't matter, all linux users and devs are hackers that will configure and install everything they need". That's...just not true? Most of us like MacOS because we don't want to. It comes with sensible configuration, an AI-centric approach (documentation for the LLM to customize the system is included in the OS) instead of AI-negationism, and bundles all sensible software a development machine should have. It always felt like all Linux distributions were mostly focused on the conventions and politics instead of the final assembled product itself. So you get a great OS, but with everything left to the user when it comes to UX. I think DHH will succeed here because he's the right person for it: opinionated, well networked, has a following, capable. I don't personally love him but he brings what most distro maintainers don't: product vision and a taste on how a development machine should work.
- nolist_policy 2mo agoI don't get why they choose a tiling window manager.
- epolanski 2mo agoBecause that's what the maintainer likes. And that's the point: it's fine to have a product with a vision and an opinion.
- maeln 2mo ago> It comes with sensible configuration, an AI-centric approach (documentation for the LLM to customize the system is included in the OS) instead of AI-negationism, and bundles all sensible software a development machine should have. I don't use omarchy, just debian, ubuntu, arch, depending on the need and they basically all come with "documentation for the LLM to customize the system is included in the OS". There is the wiki, the man pages, the documented `.conf` files, ... > It always felt like all Linux distributions were mostly focused on the conventions and politics instead of the final assembled product itself. So you get a great OS, but with everything left to the user when it comes to UX. There was always distro that aim to be focus for user X or Y (see for example gaming focus distros), and most of them do indeed provide a better UX for X or Y. But “generic” distro don't have the luxury of targeting a specific use-case. They are the base with allow the customization in the first place. I am sure Omarchy has a nice UX for a dev coming from another OS or from a default Ubuntu install, but customizing your Linux distro to fit your specific needs as always be the next step for whoever care enough. A lot of people don't care enough and will be fine with a default ubuntu, fedora, omarchy, ... But somehow, I feel that if you care enough to install omarchy, you will care enough to go and dig deeper, questioning a 10M funding. But whatever, it's basically rich people making a rich people gift to their rich friend.
- pprotas 2mo agoVibecoded Linuxslop with a Dropbox sponsored product placement. Buy now, only 10 million dollars!
- Yiin 2mo agobut it's free, what is your point? open source devs should not be paid for their efforts or what?
- whatever1 2mo agoIt’s a bunch of LLM developed scripts for Linux. Free is too expensive.
- nlitened 2mo agoWell, don't use it
- philipallstar 2mo agoThis is a mad response. a) scripts are so painful to write that LLMs do well here and b) users will decide if it's too expensive or not.
- pprotas 2mo agoHow will it stay free once these investors that facilitated this 10M funding start asking for their return on investment?
- dewey 2mo agoIt's not investors, these are donations.
- colesantiago 2mo agoExcluding extreme minor exceptions to the rule, do you think on average charities and foundations have investors?
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- imjonse 2mo agoThis would have been really interesting about 20 years ago.
- c0l0 2mo agoImagine what Debian could accomplish with that kind of money...
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- neilalexander 2mo ago> audacious mission to make Linux on the desktop happen On the one hand, I'm supportive of people trying to make Linux on the desktop happen. On the other hand, a distribution aimed squarely and solely at developers doesn't seem like it's faithfully achieving that goal whatsoever, given that developers are the one group of people today that don't generally have a problem running Linux on the desktop. I would be far more excited to see this kind of money being poured into building a desktop for everyone else.
- Yiin 2mo agoit's easier to start with devs, if they can get it polished enough to become mainstream for developers, it will be much easier to polish it further so it becomes mainstream for more casual users.
- nnutter 2mo agoI had to swap my Wi-Fi card and/or stop using the HDMI module in order to get my Framework 13 to stop locking up. I had to install an "obscure" app called `unpalm` to get my cursor to stop jumping random locations while typing. The fan randomly spins up to full speed which is ridiculously loud. This is on a laptop whose manufacturer claims I am running a an officially supported OS. I'll be a lot more likely to convince my family to switch to Linux if I could trust it for myself.
- kokada 2mo ago> I had to swap my Wi-Fi card and/or stop using the HDMI module in order to get my Framework 13 to stop locking up. This is really weird. Did you try to run the latest kernel? I have nothing but praise for what Framework did with 13 Pro at least, it was the only Linux laptop that I ever had that everything really just works(TM). Even my ThinkPad that had really good support for Linux still had some weirdness that I need to patch manually (the microphone indicator led stays on even if the microphone was turned off).
- mattbrewsbytes 2mo agoDevelopers en masse do not run Linux as a desktop, about 80% of developers run Windows or MacOS. Your average software developer isn't going to figure out what linux distro to use on desktop, then install and configure everything, its a decision making nightmare for most. I'm not stating that as some sort of derogatory comment, its just not going to happen, most users don't want to spend the time. Somewhere in the demo of it (its a long demo but there's a lot to unpack), DHH creates a theme from an image, it picks thematic colors from the image and changes the entire UI theme. It looks beautiful, which is not something I could have said in the last 20 years of looking at Linux UIs. They mostly all have just copied Windows or Mac UI elements and call it a day. I'd like to see where this goes, having a large foundation funding efforts could really make this a viable alternative to a large chunk of personal computer users. My understanding is the funding is mostly going to fund open source contributors to go "full time" and/or get paid for their contributions.
- usamoi 2mo agoFor reference: Arch Linux's monthly expenses are about $2,000, most of which goes toward servers. In other words, for a project of Arch's scale, $10 million would be enough to keep it running for 500 years.
- Vaslo 2mo agoI’ll bet some of this money will benefit Arch.
- dewey 2mo agoYou realize that's not about server costs but paying people that already do open source work (Like the window manager) to get paid for their work, which is what everyone in the OS community always wants?
- usamoi 2mo agoIf people pay for real open-source work, for example, KDE and GNOME, rather than some dotfiles, that's better.
- GardenLetter27 2mo agoThis money is funding Hyprland and QuickShell.
- aquariusDue 2mo agoSo a fancy window manager and a desktop environment (toolkit) in its infancy?
- rjzzleep 2mo agoThis is insane. I mean good for them, but what is going on? Random inference and neocloud startups valued at billions, a couple of shell scripts and lipstick on Archlinux $10M. Now try to get some money to build a proper widget framework with offscreen drawing, that is not as hard to use as the current stack, that allows people to create multimedia applications quickly similar to what the Mac frameworks did for Pixelmator etc, and you'll grind your teeth out. Meanwhile this particular thing now that the shell frameworks are converging into QuickShell and others are barely worth mentioning. I'm not even going to criticize DHH for getting that money, good for him. My critique is solely directed at the rest of the VC ecosystem. Meanwhile China has a highly competitive ecosystem for hard tech graduates.
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- nlitened 2mo ago> I'm not even going to criticize DHH for getting that money, good for him He's not getting that money, he literally donated 10% of that money himself
- javierhonduco 2mo agoI am all in seeing more people run Linux and I think this might help the whole ecosystem and other distros long term. That being said I’m a bit concerned about videos like this https://xcancel.com/thestanduppod/status/2091511392717213707 https://xcancel.com/thestanduppod/status/2091511392717213707 (really hope this is AI generated) and that so many people are okay to give money to David’s project despite his commentary on various societal topics. I like many of David’s technical ideas, especially back when I did Ruby, but I’m sad he’s decided to spend time and energy on certain topics. Tech needs more kindness, not less.
- watty 2mo agoI'm sorry, maybe I'm out of the loop. David said he wants an open group no one cares about politics or whatever you support, you are welcome to join. Seems pretty inclusive?
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- javierhonduco 2mo agoI agree it sounds inclusive but I find it to be in tension with some of his previous writings: - https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 - https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
- hakunin 2mo agoYou can say politics don't matter, but if elsewhere you lay out your controversial opinions, people will self-select whether you like it or not. And since this is such a predictable thing, it's very likely done intentionally.
- ramblerman 2mo agoPeople can come together on a project and not involve their politics in that project or their communal interaction. And then in their own private sphere they are free to express their opinions. The fact this is confusing to people beggars belief
- AJRF 2mo ago> audacious mission to make Linux on the desktop happen and a arch linux reskin with a tiling window manager + his companies apps pre-installed is the way to do that?
- nlitened 2mo agoWhat alternative plan are you implementing?
- dgellow 2mo agoThere are so many modern Linux distributions available, that’s such a weird thing to say
- nlitened 2mo agoNone of the existing ones really made Linux on Desktop "happen", so their numerous and lengthy existence is kind of a counterpoint. The existing ones didn't work, other approaches may need to be tried — at least I commend that some enthusiasts continue trying.
- dgellow 2mo agoReally depends your expectations. Linus on desktop is already successful from my point of view. There is no Linux company that needs to care about marketshare. Nowadays installing Linux and getting a working desktop environment with all the bells and whistles is pretty much a solved problem. It has even become a pretty good gaming platform. I would even say, better than macOS in that regards. There are still a lots of enthusiasts working on improving things, in fact using a Linux distribution has never been as popular as it is now, and we have way more resources to learn to get started. We are very far from the experience from 2010 (that was actually already quite good, but not mainstream ready)
- colesantiago 2mo agoWhich one?
- al_borland 2mo agoI had been tossing around the idea of getting a second laptop for a while to run Linux on modern hardware instead of the old stuff I’ve always used, which compromised the experience. After watching the video on the latest Omarchy release yesterday, I finally did it. The laptop came with Windows 11, which I needed for one specific task I’ve been putting off for months. I failed to complete it for reasons unknown, but it did give me enough time in Windows that I was worried about the hardware. The trackpad was horrible. Coming from 20+ years on the Mac, I was used to all non-Apple trackpads being pretty bad, but it I was debating returning the laptop. It would take me 5 attempts just to launch an exe. Taps wouldn’t register, timing was off and it would edit the file name when I tried to double click, it was a mess. Once in Omarchy, this issue went away. The trackbad works fine, scrolling is smooth, even more smooth than my MBP. The json config to enable things like natural scrolling (which I’m used to from the Mac) is something I don’t think the average user would do. Disabling tap to click had me asking AI, and then I still had to realize for format it gave me was wrong, so that isn’t too user friendly. I was a bit worried about trying it with how much vibe coding DHH does, but so far it’s been one of the best Linux experiences I had, and made the laptop dramatically better. I still haven’t really figured out the integrated AI stuff, but spent most of the day without even installing it. I don’t have any experience outside of GirHub Copilot in VS Code at work. I tried installing LM Studio and using OpenCode to connect to a model running there. I’m not really sure what the workflow is supposed to be. I just don’t want to need a $40 Claude subscription to try this idea of an agentic OS. I don’t know that I even like that idea, but figured if I was going to stop being a hater and actually try it, this would be the scenario that would make sense… on a laptop with none of my actual data or accounts.
- indy 2mo agoBest of luck to this project. They seem to be targeting developers who are frustrated with Apple and Microsoft which is probably a large market. And the opinionated aspect is also a positive since there's often decision paralysis for many people new to Linux.
- Zambyte 2mo agoI guess this is what happens when people separate the art from the artist, they get millions in funding. For the uninformed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454026
- feverzsj 2mo agoQuickShell is quite buggy. Just like Qt.
- 1GZ0 2mo agoMaybe that's what the funding is meant to help fix?
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