Comment by rufugee

Comment by rufugee 12 hours ago

5 replies

For me, it's not about ricing. I find Omarchy to be an incredibly productive setup, from the launchers for webapps to the focus on TUIs.

I'm conflicted about the drama and still learning more about it, so not ready to draw a conclusion yet. But Omarchy is definitely a very, very fun experience for me.

Granted, I've heavily customized it and am using hy3 for i3-like capabilities, so whatever path out of this for me is likely to i3wm or sway.

And, fwiw, I've been running linux since the late 90s, and most of that as my primary OS (with a decade-ish period of macOS I'd rather forget). I know what I'm doing.

keldaris 8 hours ago

Same here, I have multiple decades of experience running Linux on desktops and servers alike, and Omarchy just saves me time and manages to be productive and fun at the same time.

Personally, I don't feel any moral obligation to investigate the personal views of people who write the software I use. Using software, especially free software, doesn't constitute an endorsement of the authors' views. Before this thread, I was blissfully unaware of this entire silly controversy, since Omarchy doesn't mention any politics anywhere as far as I can tell. If that ever changes, I'll delete it in a heartbeat (regardless of the kind of politics it happens to be), but so far the only people politicizing the issue seem to be its detractors.

BoredPositron 11 hours ago

It's performative to it's core. In the next release they will probably add a matrix screensaver, burning windows and hack a gibson in the release video.

  • jasonvorhe 10 hours ago

    Nerds having fun playing around sounds really terrible. To the guillotine.

    • BoredPositron 43 minutes ago

      You meant to write geeks? Nerds generally don't like their software packaged like fast food.

  • watty 9 hours ago

    you do realize it already comes with a matrix screensaver, right?