Nothing against Hyperland, but be advised that iirc, there are currently working on things that break config files (what omarchy sums up to be)

If you want something quick-ish, KDE could work as a replacement, granted you use the keyboard shortcuts.

Wait... You're not OP...

Worked IT in a school. I'm glad to see there are teachers who can keep things working in a pinch.

3m in AI world is literally nothing. You could spend that in a few days training a model. 3m is basically a token amount for marketing purposes. This is not a serious deal in any way.

I keep wondering where all the left leaning billionaires are. Why can't they use their money for political and project influence, like the far right ones do?

I’m more worried about what this will do to Arch’s reputation. They don’t deserve backlash but if people use this, and it’s as bad as it looks, people might associate slop shit with Arch.

God phoronix forums are toxic.

I have a feeling that the money isn’t going to sound technical advancement but more to self promotion and ideological indoctrination.

Sure, but this is not such an example.

If you Heil Hitler a lot, you get part of the riches they hid in Switzerland I guess.

Good on them. Taking money from the alt right is like the one bad apple that spoils the whole barrel.

He didn't invent a programming language. He designed a framework for a programming language. I assure you the second one is a lot easier. It's like a library of functions and class suites that make programming quicker and easier as the boilerplate code you'd have to write is done already.

Put AI in the name and the wealthy throw money at it. That's all that's happening here.

DHH offered to upstream some of the funding to arch but they declined

Fascists helping a fascist. What a shock

yeah, don't. I tried it again last week after I saw they have their own "kernel" now. It's an absolute mess of a "distro".

The launcher is a cluster fuck of vibe coded slop prompted by someone who was coked out of their mind. it doesn't work and is incredibly poorly designed.

Normally if you want to configure Hyprland you do so via one LUA config file. Claude Code decided that cutting said config up into 6 LUAs that are ALL commented out would be a better approach. It uses neovim as it's default editor. note the VIM part. so logically to navigate a TILING WINDOW MANAGER whose default editor is neoVIM you'd use VIM style navigation right? nope not on omarchy. it's arrow keys. want to actually have vim nav for your vim based WM? ok find the correct hyprland lua config and then UNBIND all the existing configs to then REBIND them to what you want. Normally you'd just literally swap out the keybinds in one lua config. nope on omarchy you gotta make sure you're in the right lua config file and then try to find out which keys are bound, unbind them, then rebind them to what you want. This is just the primary example of how this "distro" operates.

for something that claims it will speed up dev time for users it sure as fuck prides itself on slowing you down as much as possible and forcing the user to pay for an LLM subscription. THIS is why companies are dumping money into the thing. unlike say Windows where you can easily use the OS without an AI agent Omarchy is designed to force you to use one if you want to get anything done. you have no choice. the configurations are so ass backwards that only an AI can configure them in a timely manner.

probably because he’s deeply networked and invented a popular programming language :/

I always thought if I was a complete PoS that I would start either a health fad or a religion... Both excellent ways to get rich selling bullshit.

I really wish I was spineless enough to just start throwing around half arsed projects and beg for millions of funding whenever a craze comes around… fuck I’d be a millionaire by now. easy peasy.

I know one person - the one who recommended it to me.

The premise was interesting. The execution? As you’ve said, slop.

You could get the same done by installing Arch, Claude Code or Codex, and a $20 subscription, plus about a day’s worth of tinkering- which you’d still do on Omarchy to get it working as you want it to…

How has this distro done so well? It's just some dude's personal preferences for arch packaged up with some pretty ASCII art.

Voldemort?

Strawberry still supports Qobuz AFAIK

I hope Arch is getting some funding from this some how...

No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they'll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.

They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don't see what's in it for themselves.