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I don’t know why we see Omarchy almost every day on the front page. Do people really want to use a distro from a white supremacist?
by mertbio 27d ago
I don’t know why we see Omarchy almost every day on the front page. Do people really want to use a distro from a white supremacist?
- sho_hn 27d agoHN is generally attracted to "success", not integrity.
- Hamuko 27d agoTwitter's still pretty popular.
- copperx 27d agoLinux embraces diversity. A vibecoded Nazi distro is just another Linux flavor. There's some irony in all this.
- Gualdrapo 27d agoYet here they don't spend that much time talking about the other gazillion distros out there this days...
- TiredOfLife 27d agoWhich part of omarchy the distro is nazi?
- copperx 26d agoThe author.
- hagbard_c 27d ago[flagged]
- jdiff 27d agoBecause people who want to forcibly eject, imprison, and torture brown people are Nazis. Evil exists. We can call it by name.
- surgical_fire 27d agoNo, because when you start embracing the idea of ethnically cleansing countries, you are firmly into nazi territory.
- dotmariusz 26d agothe "different thoughts" in question are that certain groups of people are animals and should be imprisoned or ethnically cleansed, so yeah, that's firmly in nazi territory.
- acdha 26d agoHere’s an exact quote: > When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation. Here’s another, referring to the roughly ⅔ of London residents who aren’t white: > London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third.
- sunaurus 27d agoI think that's the main reason why Omarchy gets talked about so much. In large parts of the internet, open bigotry is thankfully still socially unacceptable. But when bigotry is wrapped up in a software project like this, it gives people posting/upvoting/sharing a level of plausible deniability.
- lampeli 27d agohn crowd has always been favorable to trump because at the end of the day they want lower taxes, but i think a few other ideas have been smuggled along with that
- itsanaccount 27d ago"smuggled" https://www.fastcompany.com/91217605/new-york-times-editorial-trump https://www.fastcompany.com/91217605/new-york-times-editoria... (because you always have to explain the joke on this site, everyone was warned about these fascists before and during their rise to power, and this site supports them because the obvious reason https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9)
- chomp 27d agoI raised my eyebrows at this statement, but I had forgotten that blog post where he griped about the UK becoming less white.
- jauntywundrkind 27d agoOr I'm sorry Dave where he talks about being mad the LLM won't translate murderous genocidal screeds to Italian for him.
- optimisticedits 27d ago[flagged]
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- pebble 27d ago[flagged]
- happytoexplain 27d agoIt seems like a useful distinction (that, yes, is very easy to hide behind if your real opinion is just "I hate people based on skin color", but I have no way of knowing what's in Cleese's heart).
- hagbard_c 27d agoClear may be a racist or he may not be. His speaking out against cultural practices has no bearing on whether he is or isn't and neither you nor I are any the wiser on whether Cleese is a racist or not and it isn't even relevant in the context of his stance on cultural differences and preferences.
- MuteXR 27d agoYes. For some reason they really really do. And companies clearly want that as well.
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- surgical_fire 27d agoYes is the only valid answer. The reason is that there's nothing remarkable about Omarchy for it to deserve a fraction of the hype it gets. Even calling Omarchy a distro seems to be a stretch. The best description I're read is that it is a Hyprland setup for Arch. As far as what a Linux distro can be, this is pretty mediocre. The sort of thing that would get an HN thread, see minor traction, and take the backseat. But, quite a lot of people seem interested in hyping it. I suspect the reason is just because the dude behind it is not shy about being an ethnonationalist, "great replacement theory" asshole, etc. Quite a few people here are very fond of those talking points. Thinking about brown people being ethnically cleansed makes them all tingly inside. So, they really want to talk about Omarchy as a proxy.
- soundnote 21d agoThey ship a custom kernel, have their own packaging servers, ship their own installer, an installable ISO, and ship a bunch of custom UI. That's a distro, all right. Not a foundational one a la Debian or Arch, but that's never been a requirement seeing how things like Ubuntu, Cachy etc. exist and are called distros without issue. Omarchy started as a pile of dotfiles a year ago. It isn't that anymore, and DHH's intended direction is towards a fully independent foundation distro.