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New Omarchy damage control just dropped (jlai.lu)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Par for the course of my recent comment regarding theprimeagen.

A screenshot of a youtube recommendation. The video's title is "omarchy is great" and the thumbnail features DHH. The channel in question is named "ThePrimeTime". The video was posted 3 hours before the screenshot was taken.
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[–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

So much fuss over someone's dotfiles and progressive web apps

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Mmm. There’s certainly nothing else about any of the people or projects involved that’s likely to be a source of fuss, either.

    No sir, nothing but apolitical dramaless software development as far as the eye can see.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Looks like I'm out of the loop. Care to elaborate?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There are various other posts here on the general subject.

    https://awful.systems/post/5897965

    Omarchy is a deeply uninteresting and partially-assed project that has been thrust into the limelight because if the creator’s political leanings, not because of any merits it might have.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    yeah it’s pretty amazing

    in one respect it’s at best one-percent-assed (for both meanings of). in another, it’s all ass

    takes special kind of fuckery to create garbage that fractally terrible

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago*

    My impression from reading the stuff posted here is that omarchy is a nothing project that's being aggressively astroturfed so a series of increasingly fashy contributors can gain clout and influence in the foss ecosystem.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    DHH has always had a cult of personality, since the very early days of Rails (I started hearing about his boring ass in 2005. Ugh!).

    He attracts people who are into hype. Around 2013 junior developers loved to say “did you hear what DHH said?” And I’d have to explain to them that I didn’t care because he seemed like a douche and rarely said anything someone smarter than him hadn’t already said many times.

    He is wealthy and has a soapbox, so he is a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.

    Since the start!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Tested it yesterday. Don't really like it. Don't get me wrong it looks nice and seems to be kinda polished, but its way to much work to remove all the stupid shit I don't need. DHH says its for professionals. Arch and Rolling release distro don't fit with working professionally in my opinion.

    I'm happy if it gets more poeple to try linux but it's not for me. Debian all the way and despite what DHH said, you can install hyprland on debian (and even ubuntu) no problem. He seems to be kinda a linux noob :)

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I've used rolling distros professionally on my one-man workstation and they've been fine. I wouldn't want it on a server without a regular update schedule, rigorously followed.

    "Polished" is not what I'd call the bits of Omarchy I've come across.

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