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by JeremyNT9 hours ago |
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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 osigurdson26 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 osigurdson37 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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