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

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 :/

AI + Nazi = huge funding

I haven't really watched their progress, but I think it must be a bit more by now. Over 7000 commits, 525 contributors.

He's exploiting the AI craze. And is himself a wealthy and connected individual. Also he's including essentially ads in the OS. Which is exactly the type of thing people leave Windows for.

working toward full integration with the Chinese services people depend on

He appeals to the worst in some very influential people, basically "Get in the car losers, we're going Naziing". And all these rich people just happen to have a deep seated urge to go Naziing that societal ethics hasn't allowed them to explore before, so they just give him all their money.

That, and in a quid pro quo for their investment they'll obviously expect DHH to be even more of a Nazi than he has previously been. There, that's his "masterclass". Still impressed?

it's all about who you know.

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

He uses the word Agentic

By finally giving Linux an acceptable, i.e. racist, capitalist, face.

Corporations like dealing with corporations. I think this is it. Linux land is otherwise inhabited by peasant folk who do stuff for free and for fun.

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

I remember reading somewhere that DHH offered them money but they politely declined.

So I guess we cannot whine anymore that he doesn't give money upstream.

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.

Arch is already pretty well funded

So far I know zero people who have even considered switching to this this slop stain of an operating system.

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.

Hopefully this all keeps being open source so the leftovers could be reused, for the benefit of other projects.

Seems like their AIs had some of the same ideas you're having here, since about a week or two ago they had an issue open about moving the basis of Omarchy over to Nix.

That got buried somehow, cannot find it in Github anymore.

I wouldn't trust an agent outside of a capabilities-based OS, like if Genode was ready for production. I don't even use AI at all, but if I was actually using agents, I'd want guarantees that not only do you not have access to certain things, you cannot properly conceive of how to access them, it is utterly beyond the agent.

It can't not have containers, right? Or an I missing something?

Honestly I've not delved much into this distro, I only hear bad things about the author and a lot of companies throw money at it

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?

Like anything involving fascists, it’s a corrupt grift for self-enrichment.