1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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Damnit. I just found out about Omarchy and was thinking about trying it out. Not anymore.
Cachyos will forever be the ideal Arch distro for nerds who want the benefits of Arch without the hassle of Arch (until they support some giant racist or soemthing)
of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
From Omarchy’s site:
malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!
Wtf
All seven users.
Maybe I should sell my dotfiles? 🤔
They’re currently in the finding out phase.
As bad as the “Nazi bar” problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it’s a good thing.
Out of the loop… “Nazi bar”?
Dunno if this is the best source but
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
Whatever it is, it’s a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.
The basis is the japanese word “omakase”.
makes me think of Orchi *perhaps NSFW depending on your workplace
Ha! Sounds like what the maintainers of that distro need.
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
- 12 mo: #21
- 6 mo: #19
- 3 mo: #16
- 1 mo: #12
Obviously growing in popularity. That’s what aggressive marketing usually gets you.
If you don’t like that, perhaps consider stop talking about it, and him. Instead, every second week somebody writes an article about “DHH is fascist”. What the fuck do they think the effect of those articles is?
Are people actually so dumb that they think accusing him of fascism will make him disappear? That’s like high-octane clickbait fuel.
Same with Trump et alia. It’s garmonbozia.
The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
I don’t write any articles on him or his dot file collection. The reach of Lemmy comments is close to zero and even more so among the red pilled who know the truth.
I’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
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Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There’s many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It’s don’t understand.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
to fix issues and errors
and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.
it’s the circle of slop
Look! There’s a lion! Oh my god!
Nice reference bro!
I think it’s time to start a company that produces excellent mice named rm -rf / --no-preserve-root then
But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation
Billionaires like racists?
Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca’s comment
I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.
Bundling of their stuff into the base installation, I suppose. With simple math, if 1password gets like 33k subscription payments, that’s about $100 000 already.
Omarchy got perhaps a 100K installations just last month.
They’re buying customers and visibility with a sum that’s probably pocket change for them.
Very seldom is something funded that “deserves” it. The answer is that its’ creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.
I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.
This is what I think it is.
That’s the thing about real world. People don’t ask for permission to do things.
If you think you can do better, who’s stopping you?
When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other “friends”
Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?
Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…
I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
Controversy? Never.
Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.
Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.
1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.
Except… ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.
Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn’t.
Art / artist.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.
It’s not even a fork or an actual distribution or anything. It’s just Arch Linux with a bunch of dotfiles made using AI and some pre-installed packages.
But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽
/s
Touche.
Don’t forget that’s “macOS inspired”.
Meanwhile actually good distros are drowning at the bottom of the ocean.
It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.
The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.
I’ve heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that’s all I know. I realise I’m just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.
I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol
yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.
Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?
I’m not OP but yeah, basically. People who are passionate about a specific topic will know what’s up in that area.
I can name half a dozen of the most popular Arch-based distros off the top of my head because… they’re actually well-known. Meaning they’ve been around for years, I’ve used several personally and can argue their pros and cons, and they feature prominently in objective lineups like the Steam Hardware Survey. Omarchy is none of these things.
Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.
It’s virtually unknown in the Linux world too. It’s literally something they made up overnight and are trying to astroturf.
I’d say “what a time to be alive” to see the day someone considers it worth astroturfing a Linux distro, except there’s probably some nefarious shit behind it.
Still not convinced it’s very popular.
PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
I vaguely remember hearing about that, but when I searched the community to see what other people use the first link I found was archive.is. Replacing that archive doesn’t really seem to have taken off.
Your link is broken btw
I’ll just copy-paste the first paragraph in case you or anyone else can’t open it:
The English Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today and its related websites. This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors’ and readers’ computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages.
And the story on the DoS script itself:
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
alr thanks
???
For some reason it’s including the period at the end as part of the link, which breaks it.
ohhh
I already wasn’t gonna use either, but now I’m not gonna use either even harder.
How the fuck is Omarchy “popular”? I’ve been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.
It’s popular to a lot of the non Foss tech job devs that want to try Linux after mostly using macOS for Dev work. It comes with keybinds they are familiar woth has a pretty UI by default and is arch base. They probably work for companies that are also right wing so it’s something they don’t care about as much as people in alignment with the Foss ideology.
Compared to today’s mask off fascism in the states the guy behind Omarchy is pretty tame and probably less mask off evil than the people they work for
And is being promoted by other fascists - Lex Fridman - and youtube sloppers like Primeagen. All channels highly consumed by non-techs or techs that follow the hype
To me it isn’t pretty, just kitsch.
