A Based Linux Bro Appears - DHH & Lunduke on Omarchy Linux
DHH & Lunduke on Omarchy Linux -
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Bryan Lunduke unpack the cope & backlash against Omarchy Linux—DHH's opinionated Arch-BASED AF distro for devs ditching macOS/Windows. It BTFO's DEI and is aesthetics-focused, sparking "fascist" labels from critics like fucks @ THE GNOME FOUNDATION with voices accusing it of "Hitler particles." DHH laughs it off: "They're absolutely nuts."
Installs hit 150K in Oct 2025, proving controversy sells.
Fascism Claims: Echoes 5-7 years of Open-Source Purity Tests; any non-leftist vibe gets Nazi-branded. GNOME dodged Lunduke's outreach.
"Real" Distro? Purists try to gatekeep Omarchy as "just Arch + Hyprland configs." DHH retorts: Early Ubuntu was Debian-reskinned—distros evolve via remixes for accessibility.
DHH's History & Philosophy as the creator of Ruby on Rails (2004's opinionated framework that revolutionized web dev by prioritizing "convention over configuration"), applies the same ethos here. Omarchy mirrors Rails: a curated, beautiful setup to onboard non-Linux'rs, rejecting bloated defaults. Open-source has devolved from hacker collab to ideological gatekeeping—DHH: "Excitement about Linux? 'Wrong kind of person.'" They stress aesthetics/inclusivity for tech's future, fuck the echo chambers.
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Bryan Lunduke unpack the cope & backlash against Omarchy Linux—DHH's opinionated Arch-BASED AF distro for devs ditching macOS/Windows. It BTFO's DEI and is aesthetics-focused, sparking "fascist" labels from critics like fucks @ THE GNOME FOUNDATION with voices accusing it of "Hitler particles." DHH laughs it off: "They're absolutely nuts."
Installs hit 150K in Oct 2025, proving controversy sells.
Fascism Claims: Echoes 5-7 years of Open-Source Purity Tests; any non-leftist vibe gets Nazi-branded. GNOME dodged Lunduke's outreach.
"Real" Distro? Purists try to gatekeep Omarchy as "just Arch + Hyprland configs." DHH retorts: Early Ubuntu was Debian-reskinned—distros evolve via remixes for accessibility.
DHH's History & Philosophy as the creator of Ruby on Rails (2004's opinionated framework that revolutionized web dev by prioritizing "convention over configuration"), applies the same ethos here. Omarchy mirrors Rails: a curated, beautiful setup to onboard non-Linux'rs, rejecting bloated defaults. Open-source has devolved from hacker collab to ideological gatekeeping—DHH: "Excitement about Linux? 'Wrong kind of person.'" They stress aesthetics/inclusivity for tech's future, fuck the echo chambers.