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by Aurornis11 hours ago |
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upvoteby BobbyTables21 hours ago|
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More like a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple decades should have fixed it by now.

If only Podman could beat Docker in advertising…

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upvoteby 0xbadcafebee1 hours ago|
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First they should try making a solution that works as well as Docker. Every time I use Podman or Podman Desktop I run into the most basic problems. Docker works out of the box everywhere.
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upvoteby osigurdson36 minutes ago|
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I don't use Podman desktop but I haven't had any issues at all with basic Podman. It just seems like a better overall design. It would be great if Docker copied the rootless / daemonless approach if possible.
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upvoteby JeremyNT9 hours ago|
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The whole point of Omarchy is for people who want to use Arch Linux but have it configured the way DHH does.

So I think it's a little different. Anybody using an opinionated respin should understand what they're getting.

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upvoteby Aurornis6 hours ago|
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The Omarchy team admitted it was a mistake and corrected it quickly.

It’s strange that so many people are trying to call this security error intentional.

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upvoteby maxlin1 hours ago|
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It might be a mistake but not a serious one, like it's a common setting they had on for convenience of development without being too insecure, but forgot to leave it out of public release.

So there's nothing weird. It being on originally was intentional and not crazy. Only it going all they way wasn't.

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upvoteby matheusmoreira9 hours ago|
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> people who want to use Arch Linux but have it configured the way DHH does

Then they don't actually want to use Arch Linux.

The Arch Linux way is to read the excellent wiki documentation, learn about all the choices available, and then make all of those choices so the system is configured the user's way instead of some celebrity's way.

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upvoteby jadar8 hours ago|
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Couldn’t you say that about any Arch spinoff? Seems to be the no true scotsman fallacy.
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upvoteby matheusmoreira8 hours ago|
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> Couldn’t you say that about any Arch spinoff?

I can, and I do.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality

> It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.

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upvoteby Dylan168073 hours ago|
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Assuming you mean "they don't actually want to use Arch" as a criticism (rather than a truism), I think that's fair for a distro described as "Arch linux but configured X way". I don't think it's a good criticism for something like SteamOS which is configurable but is aiming hard for "it just works".
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upvoteby osigurdson23 minutes ago|
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I like and use Arch daily. My "way" was just to get past the fdisk squirrel catcher. After that it was as easy as Ubuntu. I'm not bragging, I wish I'd read the manual but was too impatient for that. I suspect I'm not the only arch user that arrived at it using similar approaches. I might even be a target user for DHH's distro but the bloat (and to some extent the vibe coding) holds me back.
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upvoteby jaapz8 hours ago|
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> Then they don't actually want to use Arch Linux.

No, they want to use Arch Linux as configured by DHH

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upvoteby AuthAuth7 hours ago|
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Thats the old arch way. New arch is archinstall + AI
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upvoteby maxlin1 hours ago|
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Actually we do. I like pacman for example. And don't mind going thru archinstall for a test install once to learn. But my workstation, I'd not like to have to develop, even if I do like configuring minimal installs for other uses like kiosks.
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upvoteby xyzsparetimexyz7 hours ago|
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installing arch is enough of a pain that I've been putting off installing it on my desktop for months.
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upvoteby qudat5 hours ago|
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archinstall comes preinstalled on the official iso. It’s a normal install flow and takes 5 mins.
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upvoteby matheusmoreira7 hours ago|
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It's something you do literally once.
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upvoteby xyzsparetimexyz6 hours ago|
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Yes and?
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upvoteby matheusmoreira1 hours ago|
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Yes, and Arch is probably not the right distro for you if you think installing it is a "pain".
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upvoteby zer0zzz1 hours ago|
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What exactly is special about rolling a custom arch in this instance? Like, why does this get so much attention? Do web developers really care about what DHH does that much?

Like, I get it if thats the case. Say, if Chris Lattner or Andrej Karpathy rolled some ML GPU programming distro I'd probably care about it and try and see if it made me more productive.

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upvoteby osigurdson33 minutes ago|
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DHH made Ruby on Rails and lots of people love it (not for me, personally).
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upvoteby LinXitoW11 hours ago|
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It does warn you. It's an opinionated Linux for a modern developer/user. This modification absolutely makes sense in that context.
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upvoteby Aurornis11 hours ago|
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I hope this was an attempt at sarcasm.

The Omarchy team immediately fixed this because it was a security oversight, not an intentional opinionated choice.

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upvoteby troupo10 hours ago|
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There was no oversight and no security. It's vibe-coders pushing unvetted shell scripts and dotfiles.

They "immediately fixed it" after it blew up on X/Twitter. Just like all the other issues they've had in the past few weeks.

And now they formed a "security team" lol.

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upvoteby treebeard9017 hours ago|
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DHH was on the Lex Fridman podcast talking about this recent release of Omarchy in that most of it is "vibe coded". It is mostly just a bash script to configure Linux, but his approach is interesting.

AI as a core part of the OS that can just change or add anything you want. Linux is great for this because it has access to the source code for everything.

He said he didnt review the code line by line, just looked at the shape of it. Whatever that means.

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upvoteby teekert10 hours ago|
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Imo they could have sold it like that, in this case. A warning would be in order though.
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upvoteby wojciii10 hours ago|
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Opinionated choice?

I recently used Arch Linux because I have a 4 GiB Mac Air that I want to use for something but it has too little RAM for UI. The installer was user friendly and fast. I got exactly what I wanted.

I don't think that I need Omarchy.

I have only one answer to this:

I'm too old for this shit.

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upvoteby 0x20cowboy6 hours ago|
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Ah, the opinionated strikes again.
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