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Whats the deal with Omarchy linux? Hype or it is actually that good? (lemmy.world)
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So preface, I am extremely OOTL with the distros. I have my Fedora box for work and its been running just fine for 5 years now. Before that i am an Arch btw user with i3 config riced to the max. I wanted to get actual work done so i stuck with Fedora and have not attempted any other distros.

Anyway, this Omarchy seems like a big deal? Idk everywhere i search, people are saying stuff like it is the best thing for Linux. Recently, there was news that Omarchy actually got funded for like $8 million?? The money comes from some big names too: Dell, DHH, Stripe, Jack Dorsey...etc. The dev who is working on Hyprland also indirectly benefits from this funding.

Is this going to become a serious corporate backed distro? We have Redhat for that right? Or is this just hype

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[–] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Here's an article on The Register. I haven't read through all of this just yet, but this might give you a pretty decent picture:

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/27/omarchy-distro-gains-serious-backing/5293026

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    It refers to "the politics behind it" but doesn't specify what those are. Disappointing for The Reg. Those politics are racism. The people behind Omarchy and Hyprland are openly racist.

    It's the main thing that sets it apart from other distros, so all those companies and billionaires putting their money behind it, probably see that as an attractive feature. So I guess I'll be avoiding them from now on.

    They are: Shopify, Stripe, Dell, Block, Cloudflare, Sesame, 37signals, Dropbox and OpenClaw.

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