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.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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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.
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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.
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Very seldom is something funded that "deserves" it. The answer is that its' creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.
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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.
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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.
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Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."
I didn't know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn't many users?
I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.
Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.
It's probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don't pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.
That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn't just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it's product placement in return for funding.
I'm on the fence if that's better or worse.
Ah didn't realize it came preinstalled lol.
spoiler
Prepackaged "superior" arch distro and the best they could come up with was 1Password? seriously lol?
1Password is the best they could come up with when "best" is measured in dollars contributed.
I said somewhere else that giving money to a distro won't even have an ROI, but I didn't know about this. If the distro is promoting their product that's a whole other thing.
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I haven't checked but I would guess that 1password comes pre-installed in Oligarchy and they're counting every user that loads the client as a "user."
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"popular distribution"? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
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I'm so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I've never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.
No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.
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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.
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So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
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1Password says "Our contribution is made to the Omacom Foundation, not to an individual" but there are many instances of their VP of product praising DHH https://x.com/jmeller/status/1971530423030387081 https://x.com/jmeller/status/2094132068342964671
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I already wasn't gonna use either, but now I'm not gonna use either even harder.
Why I use KeyPass -- which is FOSS -- instead of entrusting everything to a privately-run paid website which can turn against everyone at anytime.
edit: to that wiseacre below, do you think it's better to go back to passwords in a notepad? 🤣
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The backlash to 1Password’s funding should have been predictable
Managers don’t know shit
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Wasn't Omarchy literally just a couple of dotfiles for Arch and a easy Installer?
It is currently more than that, and it even has its own repos/mirrors, but the fact that basically every rich person is throwing money at this project should be a huge warning sign to everyone to avoid this.
But at the end of the day, it's nothing revolutionary. It's customized Linux with a tiling window manager, all funded by billionaires and developed by a turbo racist.
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PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
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Why does Omarchy even need this money when it’s run by a billionaire?
This song have just been sent to Arch or some Linux foundations.
Because there are multiple Linux options, once the commercial versions flood in, the most marketed will grab the biggest share of the uninformed populace. So obviously the billionaires want to wrestle control over it.
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of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
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Youtube has been feeding me Omarchy video lately, it seems like every single one I tried to watch brought up using Grok. I don't know anything about Omarchy, but it was enough to give me the feeling something wasn't right.
It's Arch Linux by and for white supremacists.
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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.
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I literally didn't know this, but I've switched from 1Password to KeePassXC few days ago because its Android client stopped working. Wth?
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I wouldn't have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
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