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- Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.by JSR_FDED
- In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is facilitated by Omarchy because all that stuff is dictated by text files that agents can directly interface with.
Whatever the merits of MacOS, and there are many, it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files. That's what he was talking about.
by cfiggers - I watched the same and I didn’t hear any marketing speak. He’s excited about his ideas, puts in the work and genuinely trying to make Linux accessible.
About calling Mac trash, I think he should have added “for engineers”. I like/use macOS and Omarchy both and they are meant for different audiences.
by _waqas_ali_ - > talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”.
DHH has always been a contrarian who speaks highly confidently in extremes. He does well in topics where he can show up and act like a beacon of sane and helpful takes in a world where everyone other than him is wrong.
Some times he’ll find a clear wedge topic and hook his message to that, appealing to people on one side of the wedge.
At other times he’ll manufacture some strawman arguments and present them as indisputable facts that he’s revealing to you, dear listener, as a trusted guide who has seen the light.
His sudden flip to being anti-Mac after years of being pro-Mac follows the pattern. He had some small real grievance at some point and saw an opportunity to become known for Omarchy, so he flipped to extreme takes like “Macs are complete trash” and saying weird things like how they can’t be used for agents.
by Aurornis - > classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch.
Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some closed source platform or whatever the author is up to, you probably want it to sound like Linux forces you to know everything about everything, so you can sell your service to the people who don't want that. Good luck I guess.
This reads as a blogpost from someone who is mad at Linux for some reason, yet cannot fully describe why?
- > Ruby-on-Rails fanboi
Lol. The author is the creator of Rails
by kibibu - "Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about?"
Probably Gentoo, since that's where the truly competent Linux users that do understand their tools tend to migrate.
by lightedman - He's talking about Linux neckbeards and gatekeepers, not, say, cultural idiosyncrasies of any given distro.by hombre_fatal
- >> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools,
That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.
by skydhash - Yeah... KDE, GNOME and soon COSMIC will be fine for most people. Ricing IS fun but this is more similar to taking a kitted out car that used to belong to your cousin to the car meet, part of the culture is stumbling around forums and asking around. There's been stuff in the past like Regolith that did similar things but now a semi-famous person is spearheading this so everybody wooos and ahhhs.
Yes, I am salty.
by aquariusDue - I have no idea how to navigate to the homepage of this websiteby elil17
- - https://learn.omacom.io/
(It is not very discoverable? The "bookshelf-like" icon on top ...)
by Bluestein - And what do you know? The vector-database-for-AI publisher recommends omarchy-for-AI:
https://xcancel.com/antirez/status/2090354253743177866
This is all purely organic.
by 3qs12g5 - Seems wrong that this post is flagged.
- I was humbly going to posit same, but given the vitriol apparent against the publisher, it is symptomatic of something, I guess. The points downthread make for an informative read, pro-against.-by Bluestein
- DHH had been anti AI first. Then he got a board seat at Shopify. Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation.
Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in.
Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI when it comes to unemployment: Everyone but snowboarders (Lütke) and "race car drivers" (DHH) should be unemployed regardless of skin color! True equality!
by 34ksh16 - Almost everyone was anti AI first until they a) found out about agents b) found out about how to deal with halluciation and context management c) best practices in tests, prompts, skills.
Last year I wrote a gist to collect tweets to record the approximate date when known industry people made the change https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/133d6aaf759ee9341bea0029f03bd...
by rmoriz - Something, something [1].by rglover
- I just installed Omarchy yesterday wanting to try it out. Mainly dealing with not having a mouse for my second computer but maybe you gotta give it a few days as your main machine.
But I prefer the sub pixel font rendering in macOS to the one in Linux. I always have. And that hasn’t changed with Omarchy.
The theo video about the file systems being way faster is what got me to consider it. Working with node modules folders a lot, and occasionally working with docker (orbstack is great) I’m curious about considering this as my dev machine.
We’ll see how it goes but I wasn’t blown away the way the videos say. At least not yet.
by atonse - I'm a fan of omakase computing but in an "install stock fedora or debian" sense. I find the maintainers have great taste. I'm not sure any more ink needs to be spilt than that.by Retr0id
- I’m very impressed with how easy Omarchy is to get going for someone who knows enough about Linux and computers to take over the rudder and steer the ship to wherever they are going. Proprietary tools like 1Password and Spotify are in place. It works wonderful in a Mac centric SaaS organisation. Actively developed and refined. It would be great to have a traditional taskbar oriented distro like this. But in the meantime I can run this and forget about my OS for a while.by bestham
- This is not a distro. It's a masterpiece in trolling.by crocowhile
- It's a top to bottom approach. Get the UI/UX working, make incredible marketing, sort out the technical foundation later. Excellent executed from a strategic point of view. Let's see if Arch is the best foundation for such a project. I don't know.
Personally, I hope, Debian isn't shutting the door on LLM-supported coding to improve their legacy tooling. I believe we have a very short window to use almost-free LLM fixing internal debt and outstanding issues with our FOSS setup.
by rmoriz - I do this with Claude. I don't add skills files, since I figure if they worked that well then Anthropic would just put it in Claude code.
I just open Claude in a new directory (no agents.md file or claude.md file), tell it what I'd like it to build, and figure that Anthropic would give it any tooling it needs. If some skill etc worked so great, it would just be part of Claude Code.
(However, I do think it writes some memories based on things that worked well or poorly before - it does really well at projects now, I think it does much better than a stock installation, so I think it does make use of memory files. I see its notes when it writes certain lessons to memory.)
by logicallee - Stock Fedora or nearly all the other Linux distributions are a thousand times more stable and secure than Omarachy is.by deepllm
- > Published on 2025-10-22 and updated on 2025-11-08
Article is very outdated.
by anon5739483 - To me, personally, the value of Omarchy is more like a pre-riced developer environment, nothing else, and I am totally cool with that. Some people say it's not a distro, but then again, that would mean that kubuntu is also not a distro... btw, I work with fedora, so take my posture on this with a pinch of salt.
- Well I guess that's the problem with
> getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions
by steve1977