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This was not the flex that DHH thought it was (programming.dev)
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From DHH's long-winded keynote at Rails World 2026. He was bragging that Hey's backend is so efficient because it's written in Rust (which he hates and refuses to read).

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[–] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It’s a new distro in the same way that Minecraft with a texture pack installed is a completely different game.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Isn't this all distros? I've heard arguments that the only defining feature of a distro is the package manager, as you can install and configure software packages identically. E.g you can make Kali from Debian, just from some settings changes and installing some packages.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    I mean, there’s not really a clear definition, but if your distro has an upstream distro and the only difference between yours and the upstream is that you added a few packages and some config files, I would call that a community flavor at best, not a distro.

    Take Bazzite for example. They don’t have their own package manager (well, they kind of do, but it doesn’t use their own repos to my knowledge), but the installation is so vastly different from the upstream repo (Fedora) that calling them a distro makes sense.

    Or take Ubuntu. It’s just Debian with some new packages, or? No, it’s so vastly different from a base Debian install, including their own repos and builds of every package, that it’s definitely a different distro.

    Omarchy, by contrast, it’s basically a set of packages and config files that you install onto Arch. Not a distro.

    Same with Proxmox VE, but they don’t try to call it a distro. They call it what it is, a “solution”. That’s not a bad thing. It’s bad to pretend it’s a distro, like Omarchy does.

    Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC.

    - Proxmox’ Wiki

    Omarchy is a beautiful, fun & agentic Linux distribution by DHH.

    - Omarchy’s GitHub.

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