It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.

Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a "we think this is the future of Linux" vibe investment.

because it's not about a quality OS, it's about being a hive for people to take advantage of others, and because the founder personally made connections to the people that publically gave him money.

$8 mil is pocket change for the investors. It's like eight dudes all giving their bro $100 for his art project.

Quote from end of your linked article. Note he talks about humans:

When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.

If anyone is interested in a more thorough and recent write-up of why many of us call DHH fash, this gnome blog post is pretty good: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

Ugh, I stopped reading when he segued from wolves being a danger to humans straight into the "gypsy problem" 🤮

Also had a look at the site for this distro, he really seems to like cars and seems to be pretty full of himself about some neither-new-nor-original arch+tiling_wm distro.

The creator and maintainer of NeoVim was also really against removing a DHH endorsement from the NeoVim website and called it cancel culture.

as a fellow dane, david is the corniest type of danish guy.. a dork turned fascist because of built up resentment.

He has 100% been a Assmongold viewer if he isnt still, and probably knows wayy too much about trans people in womens sports despite not knowing a single shit about medically transitioning

ive had my share of encounters with his type.

WHOA. Bombastic claim there, brah.

He's a Eugenics aficionado, and racist-ADJACENT

They don’t actually understand what Nazis or fascism even are. They treat it all like a weird sports team thing where everything is just a derogatory word for things you don’t like. They’ll never see they are the bad guys. Not capable of it or they wouldn’t be this way to begin with.

also if you listen to 10 seconds of any podcast with him you'll hear him say the r slur like 20 times. when I first heard about him two or so years ago, this was my first red flag. I immediately paused and checked his blog... yep fucking nazi piece of shit

The more power such people have in such positions, the more money they get, the worse it gets. And the bigger the cult might get, which could suck people into the views and so on. Do not underestimate that.

Relatively the same.

Easier than said, if it gets this much attention, recommendation and money support. We should not ignore it, but tell people (like the linked post). So they can make an informed decision.

I use the word "meme" very lightly here, which is a mixture of hate, second-hand embarrassment, making fun of the distro and its users and so on. For the issues it had in the past and being no longer trustworthy for many. Also people meme about Ubuntu for the Snaps, and the focus on Rust (I personally like Rust...), being best friend with Microsoft and so on.

I wouldn't take that statement too seriously, some people really like to gatekeep. The simple fact is that Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux more accessible to a lot of people who otherwise would still be using another OS. That also makes it an easy target for ridicule.

Having said that, they also made a lot of unpopular decisions, especially amongst Linux purists.

Ubuntu was my first Linux distro and I liked it back then. I would've recommended the old Ubuntu to non-tech-savvy people, or people who want a Linux that "just works" (although back then no Linux "just worked", there was always at least a bit of debugging for me). However it's enshittified a lot. A lot of basic software is only available as snaps. It generally feels quite corporate these days.

Have you checked Niri?

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri

Seconding Niri, but also I've seen swayfx setups that have Hyprland-like aesthetics.

If you don't care about fancy effects, I've been a river user for years and I like it. Nowadays it is just a compositor and the WM is separate, but river-classic (which includes a WM) has a dwm-like tag system, is programmatically configured (ie you speak to the river IPC in any language of your choosing—by default it's a shell script but the WM just executes ~/.config/river/init on startup, so that file can be any executable), and is simple and lightweight. The new 0.4.x release separates the compositor and WM, so you can pick or write your own WM that suits your own workflow/use-case, if that's your thing—it might not be if you don't want customisability and you just want something that makes the decisions for you to a good enough standard.

NetBSD already runs a lot of the satellites out there.

I am shitting on Hyprland because DHH, who is responsible for the mess that is Omarchy, is in bed with Vaxry and they both enable each other. I did not say that Hyprland has any vulnerabilities. I said that people who have a hard on for aesthetics do so because they are compensating for a lack of substance most often. I was specifically referring to this privilidge escalation fuck up.

and i dont think hyprland is here like “the thing” that will attract users.

Well, the attempt is made for it to be part of just that. See Omarchy.

it’s for power users.

Almost all programs that implement some sort of GUI the way XFCE or dwm does are for power users, it's called being on Linux. The exception here is maybe the latest GNOME release. Hyprland is also for the r/UNIXPORN crowd.

That I'm not sure about. It's part of the official install docs for docker, though there is a big scary warning saying that that group gives you root permissions. Either way, I place the fault on docker more than Omarchy directly since it's a group that gets automatically when you install it on any distro.

just the first one off the top of my head: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

I don't know how I can give you some "sources" for that, but feel free to have a look at the few blog posts of the guy and make your mind.

https://world.hey.com/dhh