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How much money is going upstream? Like hyprland and arch? Omarchy is basically just a script all the work is being done by otherpeople.

cpburns2009 1mo ago
That describes most distributions, even the base ones like Debian and Fedora.
reddalo 1mo ago
...by other people and by AI, so by other people indirectly.
mirzap 1mo ago
They just founded the Foundation, and the money has not been allocated yet. But Hyperland, Quickshell, and some others already got 3 year sponsorship deals. The AUR maintainers refused the cooperation and the money. So they will start working on new package management for Omarchy. My guess, though, is that most of the money will go to DHH's obsession with Macs and anti-Apple stance (porting Linux to work on M architecture), either by directly funding Asahi Linux or by forking it to speed up development.
- sho_hn 1mo ago
  I highly doubt the current crop of Asahi people would take money from DHH.
  - mirzap 1mo ago
    Yup, that's why I think they will fork it.
  - mcv 1mo ago
    So much money to spend and no one will take it...
    - mirzap 1mo ago
      Omarchy ISO is downloaded 20000 times A DAY. It's in the top 3 distros now. Only very sad and delusional people hate its success. I pity them, but I don’t want them anywhere near me.
  - dkuntz2 1mo ago
    it also seems highly unlikely that dhh would even reach out to asahi to ask
- KetoManx64 1mo ago
  They've already said that they refuse to work with DHH, which is fine, but the Asahi Devs and Arch Linux Devs have let politics overtake their entire existance and I'm happy someone is finally changing the status quo and shaking things up. Let money actually go to competant people and not leftists that will ban you from their entire ecosystem if you even slightly disagree with their politics.
  - mxve 1mo ago
    DHH is bringing more politics, and mostly hate at that, into this space than any other person.
    - KetoManx64 1mo ago
      What politics is he bringing?
      - acdha 1mo ago
        White nationalism: I highly recommend reading these posts by people in the Rails community: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... These are some examples from the source: 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
        copperx 1mo ago
        Omarchy means Hitler in Danish.
        gcr 1mo ago
        Could you explain where this comes from? I dislike DHH as much as the rest, but I thought Hitler was just referred to as Hitler in danish?
TiredOfLife 1mo ago
Arch refused any money
- KetoManx64 1mo ago
  Good they don't deserve it, they will just use it to spout their politics and ban individuals for their political views from the repos and wikis. Just look at their petty little meltdown over X-Libre
- hcartiaux 1mo ago
  To my knowledge, there is no discrimination on donations, anyone can contribute, including DHH: https://archlinux.org/donate/ https://archlinux.org/donate/
  - TiredOfLife 1mo ago
    https://x.com/dhh/status/2092620969122664793 https://x.com/dhh/status/2092620969122664793 "Update: I heard back! The team was not interested in any direct collaboration with Omarchy or the Omacom Foundation. Message received "
    - mylidlpony 1mo ago
      Notice how they didn't donate the money, but explicitly wanted collaboration. Such careful phrasing, methinks.
mcv 1mo ago
A script that gets 10 million dollars. That's some amazing marketing.

cpburns2009 1mo ago

That describes most distributions, even the base ones like Debian and Fedora.

reddalo 1mo ago

...by other people and by AI, so by other people indirectly.

mirzap 1mo ago

They just founded the Foundation, and the money has not been allocated yet. But Hyperland, Quickshell, and some others already got 3 year sponsorship deals. The AUR maintainers refused the cooperation and the money. So they will start working on new package management for Omarchy. My guess, though, is that most of the money will go to DHH's obsession with Macs and anti-Apple stance (porting Linux to work on M architecture), either by directly funding Asahi Linux or by forking it to speed up development.

sho_hn 1mo ago
I highly doubt the current crop of Asahi people would take money from DHH.
- mirzap 1mo ago
  Yup, that's why I think they will fork it.
- mcv 1mo ago
  So much money to spend and no one will take it...
  - mirzap 1mo ago
    Omarchy ISO is downloaded 20000 times A DAY. It's in the top 3 distros now. Only very sad and delusional people hate its success. I pity them, but I don’t want them anywhere near me.
- dkuntz2 1mo ago
  it also seems highly unlikely that dhh would even reach out to asahi to ask
KetoManx64 1mo ago
They've already said that they refuse to work with DHH, which is fine, but the Asahi Devs and Arch Linux Devs have let politics overtake their entire existance and I'm happy someone is finally changing the status quo and shaking things up. Let money actually go to competant people and not leftists that will ban you from their entire ecosystem if you even slightly disagree with their politics.
- mxve 1mo ago
  DHH is bringing more politics, and mostly hate at that, into this space than any other person.
  - KetoManx64 1mo ago
    What politics is he bringing?
    - acdha 1mo ago
      White nationalism: I highly recommend reading these posts by people in the Rails community: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... These are some examples from the source: 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
      - copperx 1mo ago
        Omarchy means Hitler in Danish.
        gcr 1mo ago
        Could you explain where this comes from? I dislike DHH as much as the rest, but I thought Hitler was just referred to as Hitler in danish?

TiredOfLife 1mo ago

Arch refused any money

KetoManx64 1mo ago
Good they don't deserve it, they will just use it to spout their politics and ban individuals for their political views from the repos and wikis. Just look at their petty little meltdown over X-Libre
hcartiaux 1mo ago
To my knowledge, there is no discrimination on donations, anyone can contribute, including DHH: https://archlinux.org/donate/ https://archlinux.org/donate/
- TiredOfLife 1mo ago
  https://x.com/dhh/status/2092620969122664793 https://x.com/dhh/status/2092620969122664793 "Update: I heard back! The team was not interested in any direct collaboration with Omarchy or the Omacom Foundation. Message received "
  - mylidlpony 1mo ago
    Notice how they didn't donate the money, but explicitly wanted collaboration. Such careful phrasing, methinks.

mcv 1mo ago

A script that gets 10 million dollars. That's some amazing marketing.