Good to know what to omit, also:

Use and fund open alternatives to the boycotted tools: Bitwarden instead of 1Password, Nextcloud or Co-op Cloud instead of Dropbox or AWS, WooCommerce or Openfront instead of Shopify, Signal, Matrix, XMPP, or Delta Chat instead of Slack. Sourcehut, Gitea, or Forgejo instead of GitHub.

I bet here's a typo, because I can't believe Matrix is also bad

I think the best way to counter this is to fix Ubuntu. It has what it needs to work as an introductory distro. I don't know what made Ubuntu so bloated and buggy but I bet it's salvageable. I'm not saying Ubuntu was ever the greatest but it was one of the first distro to be simple to use.

When I first came over from windows in 2013 Ubuntu detected all of my hardware and would install drivers by clicking a button. That seems like not a big deal now but then it felt like a miracle, it gave me a chance to learn about Linux while it was also functional.

If omarchy takes that new user crowd it might actually be a problem. Omarchy might fail if they don't keep stealing from Arch development.

Maybe I'm out of touch because I have no idea what new linux users go to today. Steamos? What are the usual hurdles that new users face in 2026?

I am not trying to argue this, but some people will say "It just looks like a linux distro that is designed to be more agentic friendly, even if some of its backers have unscrupulous pasts." What is the response to this? Because I'm sure it's vibe-coded and insecure, but there aren't really linux distros that are agentic first distros and some computer enthusiasts really like AI. And yes, people can just install Jan or LM Studio on their own in another distro, but some people may want open source code and linux designed for AI. I know people on Lemmy often hate AI, so please don't hate me for writing this. I just don't totally get the reasoning aside from some people involved in the project seem to be assholes... or is that the reasoning?

To be honest, if not for security concerns I'd probably try this distro if it weren't somehow linked to anti-trans things, which makes anything completely toxic. But I looked at the Omarchy page just to see what it looked like and conceptually for people interested in agentic stuff, it didn't look that bad, it seemed sort of interesting.

Trans people are some of the best network engineers and coders out there and greatly help the open source community. Any open source project that isn't kind to trans people should be ignored. Maybe that's the point? That normally a project like this linked to anything anti-trans would be rejected by the open source community and it's only through soulless corporations and right wing tech bros that this is existing?

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This is good messaging. I’m glad someone is making it explicit. I’ll bookmark this page and share it.