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"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.
But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽
/s
Touche.
Don't forget that's "macOS inspired".
Meanwhile actually good distros are drowning at the bottom of the ocean.
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.
I've heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that's all I know. I realise I'm just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.
I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol
yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.
Oh well if you've never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?
I'm not OP but yeah, basically. People who are passionate about a specific topic will know what's up in that area.
I can name half a dozen of the most popular Arch-based distros off the top of my head because... they're actually well-known. Meaning they've been around for years, I've used several personally and can argue their pros and cons, and they feature prominently in objective lineups like the Steam Hardware Survey. Omarchy is none of these things.
Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.
It's virtually unknown in the Linux world too. It's literally something they made up overnight and are trying to astroturf.
I'd say "what a time to be alive" to see the day someone considers it worth astroturfing a Linux distro, except there's probably some nefarious shit behind it.
Still not convinced it's very popular.