I know about omarchy and seen that guy interviewed a couple of times. How the fuck am I just now aware he is a nazi? He seemed egotistical for sure, and his contribution to open source is .. basically his personal dotfiles? I think that this shit was still completely devoid of extermination of minorities manifestos and hatespeech. But seriously how do you know if someone wants to kill refugees? why doesn't he say so in the interviews or in the source code so we can know? This is fucked up. A faschist idea would be to keep a list. But omg, if you want to exterminate children that fled from war, please just say so in your dotfiles! Idk why this bothers me so.. I really do care if my config was made by a hateful hand even if it doesn't show
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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.
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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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Wasn't Omarchy literally just a couple of dotfiles for Arch and a easy Installer?
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Aw man, I use them because they're Canadian but fuck them, I guess. I wonder how hard it is to switch to another password manager. I'm especially concerned with how passkeys work.
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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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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.
But there is something right. The far right.
I'll see myself out
The backlash to 1Password’s funding should have been predictable
Managers don’t know shit
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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.
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