[terracatta]

Usually these types of articles are written about things that challenge status quos. I remember reading a lot about Ruby on Rails in the same vein "ruby isn't a real language", "rails is just a collection of scripts", and "you can't build real web apps with it."

If Omarchy is upsetting the Linux establishment as much as this article implies (unclear if this is just a one-off) then it's probably worth a look!

[Aurornis]

> If Omarchy is upsetting the Linux establishment as much as this article implies

It’s not upsetting anyone other than people who like to argue about inconsequential things on social media.

I actually don’t think it would be as popular without all of the manufactured drama and controversy around. Some people (like the parent comment) are drawn to the controversy and feeling of rebellion.

I bet 99% of people do not care if you use it or not. The other 1% just like arguing about other people’s personal preferences for some reason.

[kuschku]

People appreciate clean, good defaults. Nothing unnecessary, everything following a well thought-out pattern.

If you break this clean design out of pragmatism, to ship something that most users would install themselves anyway, most people will be alright with that. There are several distros that ship Google Chrome and Steam, and most people are okay with that or tolerate it, out of pragmatism.

But if you compromise the clean concept of a distro to ship something that people wouldn't usually install, they will get upset.

Whether that's Ubuntu Unity's Amazon integration, the Copilot button, bloatware on a Windows PC or a 2010s cheap Samsung phone, or shortcuts to services that most users wouldn't typically want to use.

The windows 10/11 LinkedIn shortcut caused the same kind of complaints as the grok/x shortcuts in Omarchy, for the same reason.

[miki123211]

It's also upsetting people who judge work mainly by the political stances of its authors, not by the merrits of the work itself.

We've seen the same thing play out with Harry Potter for example.

[dangus]

I don’t even think Omarchy is particularly popular. I see a lot of activity and user preferences around Linux Mint, Bazzite, and CachyOS, in addition to the traditionally popular choices like Ubuntu and Fedora.

I’d be more inclined to ignore it entirely if I was a blog author.

[undeveloper]

it's upsetting as money goes to a dotfile config rather than the underlying projects. arch linux is a phenomenal project

[whalesalad]

The upset is due to the imbalance between what omarchy really is and the buzz around it. When your “distro” could be a bash script on a vanilla arch install, is it really worth making a distro?

This is just more perpetuation of the distro fragmentation that doesn’t need to exist.