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bestham 14 minutes ago [-]
I’m very impressed with how easy Omarchy is to get going for someone who knows enough about Linux and computers to take over the rudder and steer the ship to wherever they are going. Proprietary tools like 1Password and Spotify are in place. It works wonderful in a Mac centric SaaS organisation. Actively developed and refined. It would be great to have a traditional taskbar oriented distro like this. But in the meantime I can run this and forget about your OS for a while.
2ash12g 6 minutes ago [-]
You are absolutely right and thank you for your level headed response! Omarchy genuinely provides value to our organization. It isn't just a Linux distribution---it is a political statement!
deepllm 27 minutes ago [-]
Stock Fedora or nearly all the other Linux distributions are a thousand times more stable and secure than Omarachy is.
> getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions
Retr0id 2 minutes ago [-]
I'm a fan of omakase computing but in an "install stock fedora or debian" sense. I find the maintainers have great taste. I'm not sure any more ink needs to be spilt than that.
crocowhile 5 minutes ago [-]
This is not a distro. It's a masterpiece in trolling.
JSR_FDED 26 minutes ago [-]
Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.
cfiggers 19 minutes ago [-]
In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is facilitated by Omarchy because all that stuff is dictated by text files that agents can directly interface with.
Whatever the merits of MacOS, and there are many, it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files. That's what he was talking about.
JSR_FDED 14 minutes ago [-]
You can use the ‘defaults’ CLI to manage settings files for the OS and applications.
(It is not very discoverable? The "bookshelf-like" icon on top ...)
kibibu 14 seconds ago [-]
This website sucks so bad, holy cow
polonbike 48 minutes ago [-]
Please use standard hamburger menu icon or equivalent. The bookshelf icon does not represent a menu or a navigation indication.
Gualdrapo 17 minutes ago [-]
In all fairness that would be a really weird bookshelf icon with "books" with no shelves and the few books it has are floating somehow in the top left corner of it. I bet it's more of a "sidebar menu" icon.
Though yes, it would be much better a hamburger icon - or just having that sidebar menu open as default.
dec0dedab0de 40 minutes ago [-]
I love Omakase, but not because I don’t know what I want.
It is because I want to experience an artist’s work.
logicallee 49 minutes ago [-]
I do this with Claude. I don't add skills files, since I figure if they worked that well then Anthropic would just put it in Claude code.
I just open Claude in a new directory (no agents.md file or claude.md file), tell it what I'd like it to build, and figure that Anthropic would give it any tooling it needs. If some skill etc worked so great, it would just be part of Claude Code.
(However, I do think it writes some memories based on things that worked well or poorly before - it does really well at projects now, I think it does much better than a stock installation, so I think it does make use of memory files. I see its notes when it writes certain lessons to memory.)
34ksh16 35 minutes ago [-]
DHH had been anti AI first. Then he got a board seat at Shopify. Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation.
Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in.
Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI when it comes to unemployment: Everyone but snowboarders (Lütke) and "race car drivers" (DHH) should be unemployed regardless of skin color! True equality!
embedding-shape 54 minutes ago [-]
> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch.
Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some closed source platform or whatever the author is up to, you probably want it to sound like Linux forces you to know everything about everything, so you can sell your service to the people who don't want that. Good luck I guess.
This reads as a blogpost from someone who is mad at Linux for some reason, yet cannot fully describe why?
skydhash 2 minutes ago [-]
>> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools,
That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.
aquariusDue 18 minutes ago [-]
Yeah... KDE, GNOME and soon COSMIC will be fine for most people. Ricing IS fun but this is more similar to taking a kitted out car that used to belong to your cousin to the car meet, part of the culture is stumbling around forums and asking around. There's been stuff in the past like Regolith that did similar things but now a semi-famous person is spearheading this so everybody wooos and ahhhs.
Yes, I am salty.
hombre_fatal 40 minutes ago [-]
He's talking about Linux neckbeards and gatekeepers, not, say, cultural idiosyncrasies of any given distro.
ubermonkey 9 minutes ago [-]
DHH means this is, for me, a hard pass.
dagi3d 1 hours ago [-]
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hyperbolablabla 45 minutes ago [-]
This kind of trite partisan comment does not belong on HN imo.
herrherrmann 23 minutes ago [-]
I disagree. Technology is inherently political, and it’s valuable and important to get informed and reminded about the many horrible people that are directly or indirectly tied to any mentioned organizations and projects.
froggertoaster 38 minutes ago [-]
Sadly, HN has increasingly become an echo chamber for 90% of the same kinds of partisan politics.
catlover76 7 minutes ago [-]
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magistr4te 45 minutes ago [-]
That's a good one, got a laugh out of me!
Bjartr 52 minutes ago [-]
I skimmed their Wikipedia page and I can't figure out how they relate to this post. What's the connection?
Removing someone from the Ruby project for a political belief is oh so Ruby. Opinionated language for highly opinionated people
22 minutes ago [-]
hokumguru 45 minutes ago [-]
Honestly who cares. Liking and using an open source project has nothing to do with supporting the creators political beliefs. Separate the art from the artist and enjoy things. This miserable attitude is holding us all back from being better.
herrherrmann 19 minutes ago [-]
Many people care and should care. Of course if a piece of software (or any project/tool, really) gets a lot of usage, it’ll indirectly make its creators more powerful. I wouldn’t want to make a person more powerful if they support horrible causes (like in DHH’s case), especially if there are many alternative routes to choose from that are less questionable.
shafyy 26 minutes ago [-]
You can separate the art from the artist in the sense that you can say "ok, this is a cool tech", but by using it, you are still supporting the nazi artist.
adamtaylor_13 24 minutes ago [-]
You should spend less time seething over stuff you disagree with, and more time enjoying beautiful things in life...
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
> getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions
Whatever the merits of MacOS, and there are many, it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files. That's what he was talking about.
For example: https://macos-defaults.com/
https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991
Maybe not, but the agent can call `defaults write` too, no?
(It is not very discoverable? The "bookshelf-like" icon on top ...)
Though yes, it would be much better a hamburger icon - or just having that sidebar menu open as default.
It is because I want to experience an artist’s work.
I just open Claude in a new directory (no agents.md file or claude.md file), tell it what I'd like it to build, and figure that Anthropic would give it any tooling it needs. If some skill etc worked so great, it would just be part of Claude Code.
(However, I do think it writes some memories based on things that worked well or poorly before - it does really well at projects now, I think it does much better than a stock installation, so I think it does make use of memory files. I see its notes when it writes certain lessons to memory.)
Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in.
Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI when it comes to unemployment: Everyone but snowboarders (Lütke) and "race car drivers" (DHH) should be unemployed regardless of skin color! True equality!
Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some closed source platform or whatever the author is up to, you probably want it to sound like Linux forces you to know everything about everything, so you can sell your service to the people who don't want that. Good luck I guess.
This reads as a blogpost from someone who is mad at Linux for some reason, yet cannot fully describe why?
That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.
Yes, I am salty.
Like Omakase.