This is all good and well, but does it matter? Are people switching to a distro because it is well funded? And even if they do, will they stick around? To me, this looks like a little money furnace that will shut down the moment the cash stops coming in.
They claim to have had 150k installations 11 months ago. Probably millions now, who knows how many stuck with it. Judging by comments on that one social media everybody loves here, everyone is using it.
I know one person - the one who recommended it to me.
The premise was interesting. The execution? As you’ve said, slop.
You could get the same done by installing Arch, Claude Code or Codex, and a $20 subscription, plus about a day’s worth of tinkering- which you’d still do on Omarchy to get it working as you want it to…
No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they’ll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.
They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don’t see what’s in it for themselves.
This is all good and well, but does it matter? Are people switching to a distro because it is well funded? And even if they do, will they stick around? To me, this looks like a little money furnace that will shut down the moment the cash stops coming in.
So far I know zero people who have even considered switching to this this slop stain of an operating system.
They claim to have had 150k installations 11 months ago. Probably millions now, who knows how many stuck with it. Judging by comments on that one social media everybody loves here, everyone is using it.
Steam still counts them as Arch Linux so cannot use that to get more accurate info. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/13586
I know one person - the one who recommended it to me.
The premise was interesting. The execution? As you’ve said, slop.
You could get the same done by installing Arch, Claude Code or Codex, and a $20 subscription, plus about a day’s worth of tinkering- which you’d still do on Omarchy to get it working as you want it to…
No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they’ll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.
They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don’t see what’s in it for themselves.
Hopefully this all keeps being open source so the leftovers could be reused, for the benefit of other projects.
I have a feeling that the money isn’t going to sound technical advancement but more to self promotion and ideological indoctrination.
They’ve got to pay their leadership a “fair” salary