Comment by udev4096
3 months ago
I am not surprised that you have such a horrible taste. HN userbase is full of normies now, especially the ones who cannot think and have no more than 1 brain cell but yet again, that's the actual definition of a normie if I am being generous
No I just like an (alleged) racist and (alleged) transphobe and really resonate with DHH /s.
But seriously, it's a very nice distro - everything works and setup is a bliss. The themes are nice (for someone who uses black and white for quite literally everything), everything following consistent theming - sure there's some headscratchers like Google Photos, etc, but the no frills installer (default btrfs with mount arguments I'd use coming out of the box). This is also coming from a debian fanboy. I really like the general consistency of keybinds as well and things just make sense it really feels like you can just load it up and get some work done it actually made me use my laptop more instead of never and made me take a genuine attempt at using neovim instead of trying for an hour and just going back to bugbrains lagfest 2026.
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on a side note, catchyos hyprland is something else alright, you should maybe rant about that instead or hyprland in general.
It's not even a distro lmao. You are fully DHH-pilled. I would point you to this article: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/, although it hardly covers the main points, it's still good enough to explain what's actually wrong with that bloated INSTALL SCRIPT, NOT a distro!
ok so what is a distro then? distrowatch seems happy to consider omarchy a 'distribution' and how about catchyos, it's just a kde installer with 2 setup screens slapped in front bundled with a custom kernel and an install script for post install kernel configuration.
what is arch anyway? just a kernel repository and a package manager?
I didn't know anything about DHH before omarchy I just saw a youtube video about some guy trying it out and had a go on my laptop that I never used before and I like it, it fits the way I want to interact with my laptop as a baseline one of the first things I did is remove all the frills (screenlocker being the first ones to go) and I found it really easy in general to de-dhh whatever I didn't like about the distro/installscript/flavor/whateveryouwanttocallit and remove pulling updates from the omarchy repository and use my own gitea fork instead to possibly use on future installations or reformats.
On the servers I am running a debootstrap installed ubuntu (better hw support) that come in at less than 1gb size, but for a desktop that has 1.7tb of project files I could care less about a bloated desktop image.
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