2026-09-12 06:56 UTC
Replies (40)
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@yxc999@lemmy.ml 2026-09-12 07:26
Nice comprehensive overview of why this piece of slop called a “distro” and its backers should be boycotted, thank you! Gives me even more motivation to finish up mine today.
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@Madrigal@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 08:01
Never heard of Omarchy until people started criticizing it. Are you sure you’re not just giving them free advertising?
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@Madrigal@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 08:01
Never heard of Omarchy until people started criticizing it. Are you sure you’re not just giving them free advertising?
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@strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-12 08:05
They passed a bunch on to Hyprland. Fuck all these transphobes and other bigotted right-wing assholes. Actually, no. Fuck someone nice. Or don’t; I’m not your mother.
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@VonReposti@feddit.dk 2026-09-12 08:07
Neocities? I thought that was dead
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@Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2026-09-12 08:14
Yeah, don’t use Omarchy, not sure why anyone would need to since there are versions with more stable support and a myriad of other free options for every niche. The site lists many great reasons not to use it, that is appreciated. I don’t use Cloudflare but I’ll say that’s probably the hardest service for people to leave because it’s been the easiest to set up and forget. Now my one gripe. The People to Avoid category is a weird omelette that put together multiple lists of people and brands them all as fascists to avoid. It’s a set of massive purity test retcons that are not productive because it mixes overt bigots (Stripe guy) and Silicon Valley grifters (Dorsey) with people that are living foundations of open source who are accused of odd behaviour. Is rms going around harassing women? Cuz the last talk I watched of him he was battling cancer. (I have read the Stallman Report, he has discussed many topics, but as far as I interpret it he is just trying to make sense of normally taboo topics by writing it out, even if the way he writes it out people feel harmed or creeped out about it because it doesn’t match today’s accepted norms.) I wouldn’t ask him for dating advice but I wouldn’t hesitate to ask him for computer advice. Louis Rossman has an opinion that I believe is wrong, but not one he holds strongly enough that he would discriminate or disrespect a customer over it or let it interfere with the goals of owning goods you buy. Yes, question the questionable parts, but to avoid them altogether is excessive IMHO, each should be taken case-by-case. Everyone, without exception, is flawed in certain ways. While there are people that make their flaws their whole identity, which you should avoid, for those who don’t, you have accept to a certain degree to achieve solidarity and accomplish things bigger than themselves.
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@RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2026-09-12 08:58
What are they getting for their money? Fork it if it’s so good.
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@Sims@lemmy.ml 2026-09-12 09:07
Yes baby ! What a great page. Thank you, to this Brennan dude(tte) for creating it, and quick apolls to others for me primitively raging against every sign of this nazi/fascist club/product, and the whole nazi/fascist enshittification/normalization of ‘open source’. One nasty surprise in secondary list: ‘suckless’ - oh well, can’t win them all :-( Let’s post this great page as a standard reply to all posts/mentions of omacom/omarchy going forward, so all those not knowing, can be warned about what it really is ! [ait] (warning - AI topic tag) Dear anti-ai, if you can muster it, then please lower defences slightly for just a sec: It’s really time and energy consuming to follow and document this yucky movement as they are now heavily funded and work/move constantly 24/7. Brennan is a super cool Human, but can’t work on this always, all the time. We might need an active agentic system that also work constantly 24/7 to track the whole fascist/nazi network, all its players, update the lists and make it easier for ordinary good peeps to reject and boycott it all. Supervised by a human oc.
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@friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 10:14
That is a fantastic page, well cited. Also dang, I didn’t realize Jeff Geerling was so conservative about homosexuality and abortion. Pretty disappointing.
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@somegeek@programming.dev 2026-09-12 10:49
Good post, but I don’t like the mention of people and things that are not related to Omarchy. It gives feelings of just personal opinion. It should stick to the cause of boycotting Omarchy.
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@muzzle@lemmy.zip 2026-09-12 11:19
I think the best thing you can do is to ignore omarchy.
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@MissingGhost@lemmy.ml 2026-09-12 12:38
What are some some good distributions on the other end? Is there like a communist, ally software distribution? Everything is political.
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@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-12 13:03
How is it “open source” with all that bloatware garbage it has? There is nothing open source about it from what I saw.
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@mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2026-09-12 14:19
I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised. I have no intent or need to use Omarchy. This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too “purity test” for me. The reasons listed are, let’s say extremely tepid in many cases. I’ve never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all. I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center. I guess all I am saying is… Use whatever products you do or don’t want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it. I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I’m listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.
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@Kyle@lemmy.ca 2026-09-12 14:19
Hey, does anyone have good alternatives to CloudFlare to host my dns but also still safely self host things?
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@ISolox@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 14:33
Man I’m just here to enjoy some Linux not drama. Can’t avoid politics at all on Lemmy :(
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@mabeledo@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 15:44
Ah, another witch hunt in FOSS world. Some things will never change.
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@Maragato@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 15:47
People use Brave even though Peter Thiel is one of its main investors. People use Brave even though it was created by Brendan Eich, a homophobe and Trump supporter
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@KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2026-09-12 15:48
I will continue never using it
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 16:04
Everything, every fucking thing on the right to the left Is designated as far right fascist these days, stop wasting my time.
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@Aeder@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 16:04
Both the Omarchy shilling and these attempts at smearing a lot of people with the least charitable interpretation possible of their words and actions feel incredible artificial, so I’m going to do what is best for me and ignore both.
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@sevenoverthree@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 16:40
Aside from this dickhead and his shitty worldview, the OS is nothing more than a curated experience with what could be some fucking awful and dangerous AI implementations. I don’t understand how people with any modicum of tech literacy wouldn’t pass on this fucking thing INSTANTLY. I have always had mixed views on networkchuck, but to see him pumping this fucking thing up was pretty much my tipping point to writing him off completely. And regarding DHH… I don’t know how you could listen to this guy talk, and not get the Euroid sociopath vibes. Plus his little harem of fanboys are presumably gonna be jumping in at this point. It’s just fucking gross. I passed on this months ago, and I will continue to pass.
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@UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 16:45
I have no idea what I just read (since I know next to nothing about programming and linux) but then I read this: “Believe in redemption, not permanent condemnation. People can be wrong and still be welcome back when they step away from harm. This is not about outrage or scolding, but rather attempting repair and healing for FOSS and the world.” … “Believe in the redemption of middle aged nazis who know exactly what theyre doing gois , OK?! OK! Happy-Go-Lucky!”
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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-12 17:04
Congratulations, you’ve just managed to advertise the exact thing you oppose. I would likely have given zero attention or thought to Omarchy today if I hadn’t seen this thread. Also, I just read that “The Omarchy Doctrine” page; if someone seriously thinks that is a “fascist creed”, then that is very interesting. About the person who thinks that. If someone could help me figure out what part of that is supposed to be outrageous or especially controversial, I’d appreciate any help!
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@Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-12 18:31
this website is so scarily designed (in a way that screams “scam” to me regardless of its content) that i doubt it will reach anybody but us
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@linux_supremacist@lemmy.nazibeater.fyi 2026-09-12 18:46
As long as any form of will to power exists, there will be attempts towards facism. The point of open source is that the worst case scenario- something happens and you’ll be able to branch it and run it your way. That’s the whole damn point. It is suppose to be so surprising- but that’s the life cycle of the modern day world. Leaders act very well towards their consumers and employeee until they get a real foothold to the point of being able to buy congressmen. Then they turn evil. That’s the thing- they were always evil. They just hid their power level
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@madeofpendletonwool@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 19:02
Is The Primeagen also a garbage person? I’ve always thought of him as pretty down to earth and real… But man he’s been making them rounds with DHH lately and getting heavily involved in Omarchy
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@vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-12 19:11
I think boycotting omarchy itself (easy to do) is a lot more effective than boycotting everything else.
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 19:14
The heck happened? I’ve been under a rock for a bit… Why on Earth is there so much hype around some Hyperland Arch Linux config, within like a month?
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 19:48
its fascinating to see libs cancelling people on basis of culture war… I also wanna cancel people on basis of class war
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-09-12 20:33
Protest if you like, but I’m going to say: Stop talking about Omarchy if you want to hurt it. The people who like it are going to like it, the ones who don’t won’t, and screaming about it just brings it to the attention of more people who never would have heard about it.
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@r3g3n3x@lemmy.zip 2026-09-12 20:46
OK so this is a legit weakness of mine and it has to do with too many options. Creator aside what makes this distribution interesting and what other flavors resemble it? I’ve been trying for years to find the right flavor for me, I want something I update minimally and when I do update it doesn’t break. I’m using lmde note but I’ve had to wrangle it in and all I’m running on it is steam Nvidia gpu, yams, plex. I want to self host other apps but I’m terrified of the base install becoming unmanageable. I want this server to run games also.
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@r1veRRR@feddit.org 2026-09-12 21:43
I have to ask: How exactly would someone support the fascist people just by using Omarchy? It costs nothing, there’s no data collection, no subscription, nothing. It seems like a fucking purity test to not touch anything any possible fascist has ever touched.
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@frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social 2026-09-12 22:24
Omarchy is a distro in the same way that I’m a fighter pilot because I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.
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@DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2026-09-12 22:40
Am I crazy for saying that DHH is a far-right plant and Omarchy is a plot to destroy FOSS from the inside?
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@carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-12 23:25
Oh Omarchy is “agentic” now? Is there a change they can point to that made it so? Also the phrase “agentic Linux for the age of agents” makes my brain bleed.
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@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-09-13 01:59
This is good messaging. I’m glad someone is making it explicit. I’ll bookmark this page and share it.
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 06:06
Donate to KDE and Gnome and your favorite linux programs!
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@mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-13 09:22
ugh… politics. wake me up when there is a technical controversy to talk about
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@someone@lemmy.today 2026-09-13 13:03
How will they try to monetize this eventually? Or is this a tax write-off to allow right wing CEOs to fund right wring programmers? I’m sure this comes back to money and cronyism somehow, but I’m not sure I get it.