I believe there have been quite a few security and privacy concerns with Omarchy, but I don't have any (more) links readily available so I might be spreading fake news and misinformation online.
Actually, after review, is this just a "big tech" sponsored distro?
Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
Those are the twelve biggest contributors, each offering $1,000,000. What do they get in return?
I mean, it may turn out to be awesome because of the financial resources but it could also turn out to be retarded corpo-slop. I guess time will tell.
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Well its cool. But not gonna be mainstream linux for normal users. No way.
Blech. Just looking at the front page screams Manbun and IPA beer.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
I believe there have been quite a few security and privacy concerns with Omarchy, but I don't have any (more) links readily available so I might be spreading fake news and misinformation online.
The funding they got is good news, but some of the funders are a little icky when it comes to having influence (direct or indirect) over a Linux distro:
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
All in all, enough long-beards have raised concerns that I've ruled it out as an option for my own setups. But is it pretty and cool? Probably.
I'm old. What problems does this fix? Who is this for?
Debian is pretty dang stable no matter where I put it.
Big funding just means a few deep pockets can make heavily influenced suggestions or demands, right?
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Actually, after review, is this just a "big tech" sponsored distro?
Those are the twelve biggest contributors, each offering $1,000,000. What do they get in return?
I mean, it may turn out to be awesome because of the financial resources but it could also turn out to be retarded corpo-slop. I guess time will tell.
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