Comment by andix
3 hours ago
If I remember it correctly Omarchy started as an in-house alternative to macOS in one of DHHs companies. And was then released to the public.
So the purpose of Omarchy was to get devices quickly set up with some opinionated defaults.
He built it for himself first, posting frequently about it on X. Once it reached a point of stability, he announced that Basecamp was starting to transition it's employees from macOS to it.
So, is the answer "no"?
I don't think it changes anything about what I was saying. If indeed dhh helped find a way to install hyprland more easily but failed to also provide a standalone recipe, that does not sound like a good practice to me.
The answer is: no, solving your problem was not the goal of the project.
But the source code is public, you can extract the relevant scripts from the repo: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy
This is not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that they should "solve my problem", I'm saying that their reputation should be reviewed negatively if they "create a distribution to solve a problem that has no reason to be solve by creating a distribution". Not that it is a very very bad thing, just that it shows that they are not really good at what they do.
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