>Omarchy foundation>launches with $8 million>This nonprofit foundation>promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.>These eight Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:ShopifyStripeDellBlockCloudflareSesame and Oculus37signalsYours truly>We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in!>sauce:https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
Did Dell actually donate to Omarchy?
But the Hitler particles!
>>109613774>Did Dell actually donate to Omarchy?yes
>>109613717he is going to waste all that money.
>>109613784>But the Hitler particles!so many people are already seething and saying shit like that.
>>109613793What the nigger fuck.......?
>>109613717>Block>Cloudflare>37signalsFUCKING GRIFT SLOPPOCORPOS
>>109613717>be chud>collect your arch rice dotfiles>call it a distro>profitThis is fucking retarded
>>109614477didn't ubuntu do the same except debian?
I don't get it. What makes Omarchy so special?
>>109614489nah they actually put some effort into it>custom packages>secure boot and tpm2 support>snap (yeah)>codecs>fonts>custom gnome>longer term support>regular backporting of drivers to their kernel (hwe)>live patch support
>>109614489No, Ubuntu actually has its own packages and package servers, they have a different support cycle compared to Debian, they offer commercial support, they force proprietary slop like snap packages on users, have different drivers, etc.
>>109614555also>zfs support>netplan>custom installer>apparmor by default>unattended upgrades>low latency kernels>real time kernels>geoip routing
>>109614517>What makes Omarchy so special?It's from the ruby on rails dev and the "evolution of the macbook", it's "the perfect opinionated operating system for devs (distro)"
>>109614571>>zfs supportthis is why I use ubuntu and the 10 years server support for individuals
>>109614582same really + podman. i just turn off snap and cloud init tho.
>>109614597exactly and unattended upgrades is great. I didn't turn off snaps but I don't have a single one installed
>>109614605unattended upgrades too yeah. i don't update my server at all anymore. i just let it reboot every month. forgot to add that they also have custom kernels for aws, azure and gcp for their cloud images which are optimized to be run in vms etc.
>>109614477It also has its own themed installer and repository. How is it any less of a distro than xubuntu or manjaro?
>>109613717shilling round#2Archlinux installed in 60sec
what the fuck is this
>>109615484Arch, like CachyOS but for devs with a tiling window manager and a lot of stuff preinstalled with a lot of copro backing
>>109613793they will won only if they gave the hardware for absolutely 0 cost.
>>109613717>hyprland now gets stable funding for the next three yearshonestly, cool
>>109615484Hand your old laptop over to AI agents and enjoy.
>>109615484an installer for arch linux and hyprland basically. plus a bunch of pre-installed apps that most people will immediately uninstall (and some decent ones)
>ricing linux gets you 8 million dollars
>>109616948your rice is shit. that is why you don't get 8 mil.
>>109613717Dean said that Omarchy was the world first panther lake certified linux distro at the omacon.I didn't like there was no My Computer icon, i would have liked to have seen that.I will be sticking with debian 13 as I've made it my own nice and comfy and gaming focused with privacy and reptilian-sapien flare.
What the fuck is this? Who would use an already riced system? How phony do you have to be to use a system that's gives you ability to tune it to your workflow, only to give up this freedom and use it preconfigured. And what the fuck does this have to do with corporations. There are tens of distros meant for making Linux usable and the one getting support is an ego boosting phony, and performative preconfigured rice for vibeslop retards delusional enough to call themselves programmers.
>>109613717omarchy is not a distroit's also very tasteless wannabe modern webdev hacker aesthetic crap
>>109613717apparently this DHH faggot has a net worth of hundreds of millions he could probably just front the 8 mil himself and ask a few buddies to pretend they gave it to him
So can I actually buy from Dell, laptops with Omarchy preinstalled now? Meaningless trendchasing otherwise.
>>109613717>Another new distro for the unemployed
Finally. All the stability of ARCH meets the convenience of DELLDoes it come with the cock smashing hammer or do I have to buy it separate?
>>109614477Actually omarchy will use the money to fund others. The creator of omarchy said that they will give a lot of money to the creator of hyprland, he will receive the equivalent of 3 years of wages at once.
>>109614517it seems quite nice, and it's kinda funny how he basically undercut COSMIC by taking the more obvious route of arch + wayland + quickshell
>>109614562omarchy also has recently introduced their own packages and plugin manager and they host everything themselves.
>>109619621Why are you making this about dick smashing? Do you happen to be circumcised?
>>109616948No. Attracting 5k users a day to Linux gets you 8 million dollars.
>>109620089That goes to show you: Linux users are extremely valuable. But to who?
>>109619621>Finally. All the stability of ARCH meets the convenience of DELLlmfao>>109619827>The creator of omarchy said that they will give a lot of money to the creator of hyprland, he will receive the equivalent of 3 years of wages at once.holy fuck
>>109614641xubuntu is a subset of ubuntu and maintained by canonical which also maintains their own package repo.I think to really call yourself a distro you must maintain your own repositories at the very least.But in this case it is better that they don't because the guy is a vibecoder and Ruby engineer webshitter. There would be so much malware that it is impossible to even comprehend
>>109614477>Be retard >Don't know shit about Omarchy >Make comments showing idiocy >Get ((((you))))Poor b8 m8.
>>109614562You know you just described omarchy minus snap, right? Omarchy has its own packages, package servers, holds back Arch packages a month or so for additional testing, has 4 separate branches (stable, rc, dev and edge - if you NEED the most recent Arch packages, edge doesn't hold them back)Omarchy stopped being just a bunch of dotfiles for arch months ago, and with the recent release of Omarchy Quattro it has its own fully featured quickshell UI and integration with all of the major LLMs with Omarchy specific skills on models like Claude where you can literally open a prompt and type "make my desktop look like Windows XP" and it'll create quickshell themes and plugins on the fly and make your desktop look and (mostly) function like XP. Though I don't use Omarchy personally, I do develop themes for the distro and keep an updated Omarchy VM to test my changes, and spend a lot of time on their discord in contact with the devs. If I ever decided to switch to Arch it would be Omarchy hands down. I just don't see myself letting go of my gentoo system; it's built so perfectly for my machine and my workflow and I don't see any other distro besides LFS (ain't nobody got time fo' dat) being more of a perfect fit than a system I assembled package by package, compiled for my needs and hardware. But if I ever get into AI shit, Omarchy is my first stop.
>>109616917>Super+Space >Uninstall ->Preinstall >Are you sure? Y>Watch as everything but Hyprland, qs, and necessary stuff like network management is removedProblem?
>>109618465>He doesn't know you can literally change anything you want and most users build their own rice and full quickshell implementation It's obviously not meant for luddites like you that think pre-installed dotfiles are somehow immutable. Almost every distro comes with some form of it's own branded themi--ohhh wait! You're shartix guy! Sorry, didn't realize it was you because for once you DIDN'T say the thing
>>109620477>You're shartix guy!nta, but how do you know?
>>109616917The company I found while researching this was amazing.
>>109620488>It's none of your business which causes I supportYes it fucking is what??? If you're planning to murder me and rape my children that's entirely my business and I don't give a fuck about invading your privacy to learn that because I only have one life on this planet And no you don't get to do the same to me for the same reasons. I will play dirty to ensure this stays as true as possible kill yourself all collectivism is cuckoldry
this distro seems to piss off trannies so I will check it out
>>109613717Anything supported or touched by Shopify or Cloudflare is pure evil garbage.
>>109619827>he will receive the equivalent of 3 years of wages at oncewrong, they have a three-year contract of stable funding https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-exclusive-hyprland-sponsor/
>>109620534Most women don't think that way
>>109614517DHH
>>109613717Bullshit, but I believe it
>>109620484Because he spergs out a very specific way over Omarchy, though typically he uses the term "non-tech-savvy" so I didn't realize it was him at first without that, but then I realized he's the only person on this board that shits his pants over some dotfiles.
>>109620608Which is pretty fucking dope imo. The Hyprland team deserves it. I don't even use Hyprland, and they literally add features that I request because I know the users of my themes will want them; e.g. animated gradient window borders. They work their asses off to make their users (and the people who make shit for their users) happy.
>>109620933holy based
>>109613717I don't get it, why not support KDE or even GNOME over this literal who Arch rice?
>>109613774why would they sponsor it? dont they get money from microsoft to ship laptops with windows preinstalled?
>>109620251>be indian>
>>109621497Because Linux has hype and momentum at the moment and DHH pushing for "The Linux Desktop" has a lot more weight, than literal who's. He is a legend in the programming space.
>>109621522i dont know what you are talking about>more linux on dell laptops = less money from windows on dell laptops
>>109621471Because they are not chuddy enough. Provide fresh virgin kids to The Messiah and you shall to receive Blessings
>>109621522>web framework maker>a legend
>>109613717Yes, that’s what Linux needs, more control by big tech companies.
>Valve sponsor KDE>System76 makes COSMIC>Omacon sponsors HyprlandI'm happy to see good projects getting the money they need from people interested on the desktop and not servers (looking at you Red Hat/Canonical and Gnome).
>>109621611gnome getting any money for not doing any work is a tragedy
>>109621584What does that mean? It's a shitload of money for a Linux desktop project, so there has to be some plans already, right? So what could the plans be
>>109621687Flip to public via xai acquisition of "the first agentic ai-first OS for developers"
>>109621497Dell itself didn't, the CEO didit's not really an investment/sponsor either, it's pretty much worded on the announcement as if they're all an up-front donation
>>109621825>Dell itself didn't, the CEO didi mean sure but it'd still hurt the business
>>109621516More unfounded memery. Omarchy has no more Indian users than any other distro
>>109622352on the source you base this statement on is...?
>>109613717>Arch based>hyprland>tilingall meme garbage holy fuck, way to burn money
>>109613717> 8 millionkek Apple and Microsoft make 8 million every few minutes. That's not even enough to hire a single team of developers to work on a single thing for a year. A good modern UI library alone probably requires 10 times that investment.
why would anybody use this over cachy?
>>109623336Still crazy, that a Linux dev gets so much and can deliver a better and bug free product, that is free and open source. He even gave up his MacBook for his perfect distro.
>>109623509>Linux>bug free
>>109620933DHH is basically just a wannabe Elon musk. Main difference is musk is rich and stupid while dhh is poor but can code (while still being overall stupid).He seems completely insufferable, I can't imagine working at his companies. All of his additions to rails for the last 10 years have either been cope (jsbundling, Hotwire) or literally just stupid (importmaps). Literally nobody wants to build like that anymore. People are either using htmx (run by someone infinitely funnier and more competent) or they're just being normal and using vite SPAs. I left Ruby on Rails when he used the company blog to rant about black people in London despite having left London himself years ago. I ported to python and never looked back. Also as much as I like Ruby, they committed sudoku when they chickened out and put type hints in a separate file. Meanwhile Python adding gradual typing saved the language.I basically just hate and categorically reject bigheaded idiots who can only have retarded takes on Twitter and boss around his small herd of devs he pays.
bait btw ^
>>109623569> can code> made Ruby on RailsNo one that uses dynamically typed languages has an IQ above 90.
>>109623569>when he used the company blog to rant about black people in LondonThat's probably the only good thing he's ever done.
>>109613717Isn't this just arch and some dotfiles?
>>109614477why aren't you doing the same?
>>109613717Why did they give it such a stupid name?
>>109623753user targeted is just as stupid as the name
>>1096137178 million could be spent to make so many software packages better, but they are going to give it to a meme distro? That doesn't actually develop anything? What a waste.
>>109618437>debian on the desktoplol
>>109613717>trannies getting mad the money didn't go to THEIR favorite meme distrofuck it I'm installing Omarchy tonight
>>109623786money is going to trannies no matter which distro or who gets the money
>>109622456You're literally basing YOUR statement on a meme, bro.
>>109623792I'm still waiting for actual proof of all these trannies and Indians involved with Omarchy since literally no one on the dev team are either
>>109615508i never understand this. i have the exact same problem with cachyos.>X but has some things preinstalledbeing generous, you save at most 2 hours installing cachy vs. arch if you are an absolute beginner and need to look into all of your different choices for things like bootloader, de, whatever. all of which are choices you are allowed to make so the computer fits YOUR preferences. the people that install these kinds of distros probably spend the next 2-3 hours doomscrolling youtube shorts anyway
>>109621611>>109621621Still don't get why you faggots are mad at gnome getting money when they never spend it on the desktop but always on other shit that other desktops use.>They spent almost all that million on fixing Wayland's accessibility issues for all desktops and on Flathub>Redhat hires more people to work on mesa, flatpak, xdg, pipewire and leaves the desktop to like 3 peopleI use COSMIC desu, but even I see that giving money to gnome benefits me more than giving it to hyprland or kde that end up spending it on themselves>Vaxry: will hire some hookers and ass more blur crap to hyprland, won't give a dime to quickshell that basically makes hyprlarp usable>KDE: so far they spent 250k on trying to fix their calendar and email apps connecting to remote services and to each otherOther places that money could have gone to to make Linux better:- asahi so macfags of the latest models can switch- postmarketos so apple and Google get some real competition on mobile- not rhel/sales/canonical so a well supported actually free enterprise Linux distro can exist- buying the Thinkpad brand from Lenovo and making it good again- literally anything related to Linux audio- forcing adobe and Fortnite to support Linux- creating a new desktop environment and a new GUI toolkit for it that's actually good and not made by freetards in their free time
>>109613717When did you realize cloud and connections mean everything? Be it starting your own company or an open source project. If you're nothing and it will never take off when you're a nobody.
>>109624664Why should hyprland give money to quickshell, exactly? Hyprland functions perfectly fine without quickshell, in fact Omarchy - the distro this whole thread is about - only just recently started launching one branch of the distro with quickshell (Omarchy Quattro) while for the entirety of its life prior to Quattro, Omarchy did not ship with Quickshell at all and the non-quattro version still ships without it. Quickshell itself is really not a very big project, and it's up to the distribution and/or end users to actually create their own UI. Quickshell is just a framework, by itself it doesn't do anything. Omacon develops their own UI called Omarchy-Shell (like Noctalia or DankMaterial) and there's even user-created shells like Shibumi shell, If outfoxxxed stopped development of quickshell tomorrow, Omacon would just fork it and continue development of Omarchy-shell and their own quickshell fork.
Aren't window managers like the one Omarchy use fucking TERRIBLE for OLEDs? Like, tailor made to burn-in compared to regular KDE?
>>109620424>But if I ever get into AI shit, Omarchy is my first stopIronic for a not reply
>>109613717Omarchy is not a "meme" distro, stop spouting misinfo
>>109625094Meme is too kind of a word for a vibe-coded OS funded by Shopify and Stripe.
>>109613793The laptop that Tim Fortnite uses that has retardedly huge trackpad?
>>109620573It grinds my gears, because it's a nonfree distro like most of the others. It even promotes Spotify and Steam out of the box, DRMed services that assert that you own nothing.Omarchy can change tack now if it wants to.
>>109623569>Main difference is musk is rich and stupid while dhh is poor but can codeI wish I was poor enough to buy a $4m car. >Meanwhile Python adding gradual typing saved the language.Are you delusional? Leading up to 2015 practically all of Europe had transitioned to using Python for secondary and pre-higher education. This was years after 'learn to code' and the proliferation of scam 'bootcamps'. I'm not even convinced you believe the shit you're writing given you 'left' ruby for python over a decade after type hinting was introduced.Hate him all you want, the fuck probably deserves it. But at least attempt to have the self-awareness he lacks so I don't need to read the retarded takes of a junior developer on my weekend off.
Very fitting for someone who has been eating Apple slop for most of his life to make the Linux distro with the most pre-installed shit ever.It's obvious he hasn't been using it for a long period of time and in general isn't even the type of person who's usually attracted to it, since he broke many distro conventions like providing a torrent download and keeping the distro more bare than the Windows baseline. He just wants to share his personal MacOS setup (which he thinks is ideal) and vibeslopping LLMs have lowered the barrier for him to do that.
>>109613717This is the jankiest piece of shit ever.why doesn't it have mouse support?
>>109626386It does. Even in all of the tui apps it has mouse support. You can choose not to do everything with the keyboard..
>>109613717The money is going into shilling, got it.
>>109621611Why should Red Hat or Canonical be expected to spend *any* money on desktop Linux? Are desktop Linux users clamoring to pay for support, or a paid app store? Are corporate users willing to switch to “open source alternatives” like LibreOffice and Thunderbird instead of Excel and Outlook?Red Hat and Canonical make money by providing software and support for servers. How will they make money with a desktop OS?
>>109624998NTA but quickshell undeniably is what made hyprland popular. All the normie popular unixporn posts that got hyprland some traction and made it stand out from all the other WMs were because of quickshell. Hyprland is the Linux kernel to the quickshell shaped pie
>>109615457>network shillWhat a fucking faggot.
>>109615457>>109627147I just checked this ugly faggot is on the front page. Jesus fucking christ.https://omarchy.org/How much money did he get for this? Were the chatgpt wrapper websites not offering enough?
>>109624095saar
niggers tongue my anus
>>109626701Not really... Waybar is more common with hyprland than qs, but even when it is qs it's more often than not noctalia which is moving away from qs altogether.
>>109623786based
>>109623569>rant about black people in Londonbased i mean based i mean based i mean>ported over to pythonso you ported over from poo to diarrhea?
>>109613717>Yours trulyDamn OP donated $1M to this?
>>109613717$8 mil is literally nothing
>>109620424so basically manjaro but less retarded?>>109621053also artix hate is so forced it isn't funny
>>109630555He's mostly responsible for that hate because he'll insult people for using Omarchy, CachyOS, etc because they're arch with an installer when Artix literally uses an installer too. If you search the archives for threads that have posts containing "Artix" and "non-tech-savvy" you'll find dozens of threads where he shills Artix and shits on everything else. People don't hate Artix because it's bad (objectively, it's not), they hate it because he won't shut the fuck up about it while insulting everyone else for using what makes them happy
>>109613717I saw a video about this. Idk dude felt kind fo scammy. Is it any good? I'm not switching from mint but I'm curious. Maybe I'll spin it up on a vm.
>>109631052it's an install script for arch for some dotfiles, think like luke smith larbs. The only difference is that DHH is really good at marketing his bloated slop (see ruby on rails)
Man looking at some of those contributing companies makes me not want to touch this in any way at all. If I want repugnant corpo slop I can always go to Windows, I don't really hold higher opinions of some of those companies than I do of Microsoft.>>109614555>gnomeew
>>109631540no companies are contributing to this though?
>>109631831I mean money. "Contributing" is the phrasing used in OP.
>>109631842no companies are giving money to this either
>>109613774yes
>>109613717I've got a spare laptop with nix I don't really use, I could install it.
>>109631203used to be that way in the beginning, they've long switched to actual packages.
