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Red Hat: billions, Canonical/Ubuntu, SUSE: hundreds of millions, Debian: one million/year. It's not that unusual for a distro to get funding - just a different

Red Hat: billions, Canonical/Ubuntu, SUSE: hundreds of millions, Debian: one million/year. It's not that unusual for a distro to get funding - just a different scale here due to their connections. Their foundation is now sponsoring Hyprland, mise and quickshell development, probably other projects to come.

Zambyte 2mo ago
What services does Omarchy provide?
- cpburns2009 2mo ago
  It appears to be an opinionated, batteries included distro/OS using a tiling window manager, and it's targeted at Mac/Windows power users. It's a niche target and time will tell whether it pays off.
  - Zambyte 2mo ago
    I'm asking about professional services. The thing people pay all those companies they listed for.
    - cpburns2009 2mo ago
      I don't know what professional services they plan on offering. Does Debian actually offer any? I know the others do.
jdiff 2mo ago
There's a distinct difference between the contributions of Debian and that of Omarchy. Debian is a foundational distro, it's a giant with huge populations standing on its shoulders. It shoulders a large ongoing burden, security guarantees, some of the largest maintained repos of any distro, a large amount of infrastructure. Omarchy is a script and some dotfiles. Happy for them, of course, but it's odd. Omarchy just isn't doing that much.
- ricardobeat 2mo ago
  I was not comparing them. I think the "set of dotfiles" was called Omakub. Omarchy is a distro like any other - custom installer, bootloader, desktop and WM setup, etc.
  - jdiff 2mo ago
    Many distros don't bother with any of that. Calamares is a fine off-the-shelf installer. GRUB has fine defaults. Desktops have fine defaults. And many distros use those. Custom dotfiles and a way to apply them to a fresh system doesn't make a distro. That's, truly, completely fine for a fledgling project, that's how many start before expanding beyond that... But why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure?
    - Kon5ole 2mo ago
      >why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over 20 years and it really stands out. Nothing has ever been as easy and fast to install and dropped me into a more polished, simple yet productive environment immediately. I think the tiling VM will limit its appeal, and hope to see projects inspired by Omarchy put the same level of detail, pruning, curation and polish to Gnome and KDE-based distros.
    - ricardobeat 2mo ago
      > 'custom dotfiles and a way to apply them to a fresh system' Latest Omarchy 4 is a full ISO installer, with a quickshell-based desktop - not scripts, their own system apps, taskbar, notifications, etc. I'm failing to see how it is less of a distro than most, and the fact it doesn't try to customize the kernel or filesystem is a plus for me. May be time to take another look at it.
      - soundnote 2mo ago
        They do ship custom kernels, actually. A normal one, and ones for M-series Macs and one for new XPSes.

Zambyte 2mo ago

What services does Omarchy provide?

cpburns2009 2mo ago
It appears to be an opinionated, batteries included distro/OS using a tiling window manager, and it's targeted at Mac/Windows power users. It's a niche target and time will tell whether it pays off.
- Zambyte 2mo ago
  I'm asking about professional services. The thing people pay all those companies they listed for.
  - cpburns2009 2mo ago
    I don't know what professional services they plan on offering. Does Debian actually offer any? I know the others do.

jdiff 2mo ago

There's a distinct difference between the contributions of Debian and that of Omarchy. Debian is a foundational distro, it's a giant with huge populations standing on its shoulders. It shoulders a large ongoing burden, security guarantees, some of the largest maintained repos of any distro, a large amount of infrastructure. Omarchy is a script and some dotfiles. Happy for them, of course, but it's odd. Omarchy just isn't doing that much.

ricardobeat 2mo ago
I was not comparing them. I think the "set of dotfiles" was called Omakub. Omarchy is a distro like any other - custom installer, bootloader, desktop and WM setup, etc.
- jdiff 2mo ago
  Many distros don't bother with any of that. Calamares is a fine off-the-shelf installer. GRUB has fine defaults. Desktops have fine defaults. And many distros use those. Custom dotfiles and a way to apply them to a fresh system doesn't make a distro. That's, truly, completely fine for a fledgling project, that's how many start before expanding beyond that... But why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure?
  - Kon5ole 2mo ago
    >why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over 20 years and it really stands out. Nothing has ever been as easy and fast to install and dropped me into a more polished, simple yet productive environment immediately. I think the tiling VM will limit its appeal, and hope to see projects inspired by Omarchy put the same level of detail, pruning, curation and polish to Gnome and KDE-based distros.
  - ricardobeat 2mo ago
    > 'custom dotfiles and a way to apply them to a fresh system' Latest Omarchy 4 is a full ISO installer, with a quickshell-based desktop - not scripts, their own system apps, taskbar, notifications, etc. I'm failing to see how it is less of a distro than most, and the fact it doesn't try to customize the kernel or filesystem is a plus for me. May be time to take another look at it.
    - soundnote 2mo ago
      They do ship custom kernels, actually. A normal one, and ones for M-series Macs and one for new XPSes.