the code smells of fashtech: omarchy
An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.
"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"
(long post, the author says feel free to skip to the summary)
archive (if yr browser chokes on the katakana URL): https://archive.is/Ks8o5
Props to Lemmy for doing... something... with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.
Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don't see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don't know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. "Hey kid, want to try some Linux?"
I don’t see how this can be taken seriously;
That's because you're thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn't to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.
I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy's given up on framework development and he's just a culture-war grievance blogger these days
The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.
the fashtech tells are smells.
like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit
lots of people write inner-platforms
lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal
but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.
It's been a long time since I opened a website and sincerely whispered "cool."
Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.
According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch's installer take literally 5 times the disk space?
EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦
this screenshot hurts me.
So "update omarchy" just means "do a git pull on the dotfiles repo" and it doesn't even seem to be passing --depth 1 because we see info on several branches being updated and the entire "update" weighs in at 1.01 MiB just for 1 line change in the conf file to (I assume) make steam work nicely with hyprland....
This really reeks of not caring in the slightest about your users, almost to the point of "if they don't know better and can't figure out how to do it properly on their own, then they deserve to suffer".
I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.
DHH is funny because he's a racist racer
In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS,
from macOS? what happened there?
off the top of my head: apple dropping rosetta2 (the x86/amd64 compat layer), extreme focus on apple intellidunce, a variety of desktop-related things constantly just getting a bit worse (music.app is currently completely broken for shortcut/automation control), and things like trying to push the macos desktop to be far more like the ios ui (see e.g. the shit they've done with settings dialog)
apple's focuses are all in places and things that no-one wants, but they're too stubborn to listen to any feedback
