It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.

Very seldom is something funded that "deserves" it. The answer is that its' creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.

I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they're good at keeping it "In The Family" so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It's the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

That's the thing about real world. People don't ask for permission to do things.

If you think you can do better, who's stopping you?

I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.

Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.

I haven't checked but I would guess that 1password comes pre-installed in Oligarchy and they're counting every user that loads the client as a "user."

Whatever it is, it's a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

• 12 mo: #21
• 6 mo: #19
• 3 mo: #16
• 1 mo: #12

Obviously growing in popularity. That's what aggressive marketing usually gets you.

If you don't like that, perhaps consider stop talking about it, and him. Instead, every second week somebody writes an article about "DHH is fascist". What the fuck do they think the effect of those articles is?

Are people actually so dumb that they think accusing him of fascism will make him disappear? That's like high-octane clickbait fuel.

Same with Trump et alia. It's garmonbozia.

It's yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.

The fact that it's being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.

I've seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There's definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.

It's just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that's been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they're familiar with Arch.

yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.

I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol

I've heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that's all I know. I realise I'm just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.

Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.

Oh well if you've never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?

Why isn't this in the article? That's literally a journalist's job to provide that kind of context.

The worst part is, giving money to a Linux distro isn't likely to have any real return on investment, so why is it even worth a risk of backlash?

KeePass is great, but it needs multi-user, granular permissions and conflict resolution on sync. Sharing with multiple simul users is like trying to work on stone tablets.

It is currently more than that, and it even has its own repos/mirrors, but the fact that basically every rich person is throwing money at this project should be a huge warning sign to everyone to avoid this.

But at the end of the day, it's nothing revolutionary. It's customized Linux with a tiling window manager, all funded by billionaires and developed by a turbo racist.

It also has a few native apps now.

Because there are multiple Linux options, once the commercial versions flood in, the most marketed will grab the biggest share of the uninformed populace. So obviously the billionaires want to wrestle control over it.

It's popular to a lot of the non Foss tech job devs that want to try Linux after mostly using macOS for Dev work. It comes with keybinds they are familiar woth has a pretty UI by default and is arch base. They probably work for companies that are also right wing so it's something they don't care about as much as people in alignment with the Foss ideology.

Compared to today's mask off fascism in the states the guy behind Omarchy is pretty tame and probably less mask off evil than the people they work for

It's Arch Linux by and for white supremacists.

But there is something right. The far right.

I'll see myself out