| ▲ | ksec 20 hours ago |
| So this is announcement. I was thinking if it is going to be Omarchy Server edition. But reading the names of all founding members I can see why it is worth the hype. I guess for now most people will be trying Omarchy on their old PC laptops. Especially when new one is expensive. It would be great if there are certain test case or certification to make sure given laptops works with Omarchy. I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum. ChromeOS isn't one because most of it usage is like a consumption devices appliance used for education. And those Download numbers and Internet video views seems to back it up. There are roughly 30 - 50M professional software developers, I wouldn't be surprised if it is closer to 100M if we include hobbyist and other adjacent roles. Even if it is 10% of this market is a sizeable trunk. On the other hand it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. I hope we have more senior leadership changes in the coming months once John is officially CEO. |
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| ▲ | nout 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I have seen Omarchy to rapidly accept PRs that make it available and fully functional on older hardware. I think this is a very exciting progress even when I'm not into tiling DEs. |
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| ▲ | LelouBil 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I heard about omarchy a while ago but didn't think it was this big ! I am proudly a Bazzite user, and honestly I think for the average end user an immutable atomic distro is better, but more money to the Linux desktop is always a win ! |
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| ▲ | wofo 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What would be the point of Omarchy Server? I thought the desktop experience was the main selling point... |
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| ▲ | runjake 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's still being hashed out (publicly! On X, Discord, and GH issues), but I imagine it will have an opinionated focus on modern container, CI, and deployment options (eg. Kamal) | |
| ▲ | miketery 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I imagine things like central Auth directory (eg. LDAP), central service for installer / image syncing, device managements, and other enterprise features. | | | |
| ▲ | dismalaf 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Running your apps on the same OS you develop on... I mean, you could ask the same question for anything. What's the point? There is no point except someone wanting it.. |
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| ▲ | dismalaf 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum Dunno, Ubuntu had a lot of hype back in the day. It just kind of died out when Canonical had to start making money. But yeah, it's nice to see the Omarchy hype. Especially since it's been marketed from the start as something for developers and not necessarily for your mom or grandparents. |
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| ▲ | CodingJeebus 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > On the other hand it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. I'm not sad at all, this is great news. I'm only bummed that the install path for Omarchy on Mac isn't easier, but money like this may change that. Apple has been stagnant in this department for years and its high time they faced some thought-leadership competition on OS UX. They brought this on themselves and I wholeheartedly welcome efforts like this. |
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| ▲ | wpm 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | Omarchy is built on Arch and there is a flavor of Asahi for Arch as well, so there's no reason it couldn't support the same hardware that Asahi does, just that someone needs to do the work. | | |
| ▲ | jasonvorhe 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Even then, Asahi is understaffed and a volunteer project following a hard and software product blackbox that's changing annually with little public documentation. I think M2s just got external monitor support via USB just recently. | | |
| ▲ | wpm 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's been going slow because they have been focusing on cleaning up their patches and getting them upstream into the mainline kernel. Once that is done work on other hardware will speed up. | | |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. Sad for whom? People that get excited paying $99/year to fund Donald Trump's next golden manufacturing trophy? https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-... Apple does not represent the average developer, they hamstrung macOS for petty reasons. There's no NTFS support, no official Vulkan support, broken/outdated CUDA/Mesa GPU drivers, and no modern UEFI or documented devicetree drivers. If Intel or Microsoft did this to their customers, we would be partying in the streets when their hardware died. There would be mass protests against the idea that a company could impose that level of anti-competitive restriction on their users. The sadness is that the developer landscape is so insecure and tribal. We could have ditched macOS decades ago if people weren't defending Apple's indefensible decisions. |
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| ▲ | __float 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you're concerned about Apple's relationship to the Trump administration, it seems a bit odd not to mention DHH has much more discriminatory views and is not afraid to voice them loudly: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-... | | |
| ▲ | fnoef 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh wow. Wasn’t aware about DHHs opinions. Not thank I cared too much, but it kind of shows you why you should never look up to these people. | | |
| ▲ | jasonvorhe 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Keep in mind that this is a blog post by someone who obviously doesn't like dhh very much, going so far as to prime everyone into reading exactly what he wants them to read instead of just linking to his posts. Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I would never publish something like this on community infrastructure that I'm contributing to. Shameful. | | |
| ▲ | fnoef 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, it's not like fully agree with the guy or the fact that he posted it, but it is kind of stupid to call this piece of writing "shameful" while trying to defend someone who bring andrew tate as a positive example to convey his message. At least be fair and label both as shameful. | | |
| ▲ | jasonvorhe 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nah, if you're fine with people getting debanked for having opinions you disagree with, that's shameful. DHH on Andrew Tate btw: > You don't have to like any of Andrew Tate's takes on men, women, wealth, or the world to see that this modern, coordinated unperson campaign against his "wicked words" is crazy. It's also likely to be counterproductive. I'd literally never heard of Andrew Tate until he got banned. Now he's everywhere, and has a credible martyr role to drape his spiel in. |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I don't really get that impression. A lot of DHH's blogposts are simply delusion, and have no bearing on reality whatsoever. Posts like his Calling someone a "nazi" is a permission slip for violence is simply untrue no matter who you are or where you live. Discrediting that type of opinion doesn't require you to disagree at all, just to point out local laws to people. There are likely places where the OP and DHH disagree on matters of pure opinion. But calling his essays "the worst possible takes" is pretty close to objectively true when he's calling for violent witch hunts against the people who disagree with him. He's the one that needs to apologize, there's nothing wrong with drawing the line at violent threats on behalf of your community. | | |
| ▲ | LudwigNagasena an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > Posts like his Calling someone a "nazi" is a permission slip for violence is simply untrue no matter who you are or where you live. It is simply true. Lots of people think it’s okay to punch nazis. There was a whole public debate about that around 7 years ago when a famous nazi got punched. The phrase “punch a nazi” got quite popular after that. | |
| ▲ | jasonvorhe 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know man, when I lived in a rather big city, I saw lots of stickers everywhere inciting violence towards Nazis, the people I used to hang around with adopted that lingo over the years and just scrolling through Mastodon I see a lot of foamy mouths whenever some masked dude attacks someone they perceive to be a nazi. Another example is some "nobody " (as in not some influencer or something) whom I don't know personally but he probably didn't throw a stone into his own window after he was interviewed in some live stream about his critical views on migration at a public protest. You have a lot of crazy people on all sides and the more you devalue certain terminology until it applies to a broad spectrum of people, it becomes a way to dehumanize them in the eyes of a certain group and all it needs for violence to erupt is one loose canon in a mental health crisis. |
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| ▲ | throwawaypath 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Linking the blog post of a pedo-Marxist antisemite doesn't help support whatever point you're trying to make. | | |
| ▲ | bigyabai 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | It works a lot better than empty ad-hominem like calling someone a "pedo-Marxist" or "antisemite" without citation. | | |
| ▲ | throwawaypath 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | The linked blog author was a member of the pedo-bar that sheltered a convicted violent child sexual predator: https://www.fandompulse.com/p/jeremy-bicha-a-child-sexual-pr... | | |
| ▲ | Striving7340 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Lol, so you went from "this guy is a pedo" to "this guy is loosely associated with something that's associated with something else that a felon volunteers on" | | |
| ▲ | throwawaypath 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you support and shelter a Nazi, that makes you a Nazi. If you support and shelter a pedo, that makes you a pedo. | | |
| ▲ | Striving7340 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | that guy is a debian developer first and foremost from reading his contributions that ends up volunteering to do other projects releases to ease up debian. He was/is hired by ubuntu to maintain packages on the desktop. So according to you, all debian developers and contributions are pedos. Take your meds. | |
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| ▲ | dismalaf 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Real balanced article from Gnome there, changing the title of every of DHH's blog posts it links to... |
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