El castell de cartes d'Omarchy

Aquest és probablement el millor article que s'ha escrit sobre Omarchy. És força detallat i deixar molt clar que Omarchy són una sèrie de scripts de personalització fets per un desenvolupador web, no per un especialista en sistemes operatius, que prioritza l'estètica sobre la funció i la seguretat.

Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer, utterly captivated by all the cool things that Linux can do, but lacking the architectural knowledge to get the basics right, and the experience to give each tool a thoughtful review.Instead of carefully selecting software and ensuring that everything works as promised, the approach seems to be more about throwing everything that somehow looks cool into a pile. There’s no attention to sensible defaults, no real quality control, and certainly no verification that the setup won’t end up causing harm or, at the very least, frustration for the user. The primary focus seems to be on creating a visually appealing but otherwise hollow product.

Moreover, the entire Omarchy ecosystem is held together by often poorly written Bash scripts that lack any structure, let alone properly defined interfaces. Software packages are being installed via curl | sh or similar mechanisms, rather than provided as properly packaged solutions via a package manager.

If you’re serious about Linux, you’re unlikely to fall for the Omarchy sales pitch.

I strongly recommend starting your Linux journey elsewhere, with a distribution that actually prioritizes your security and system integrity, and is built and maintained by people who live and breathe systems, and especially Linux.

La conclusió, sostinguda amb bons arguments concrets i detallats, és palmàralia.

Això contrasta amb els missatges del creador d'Omarchy (i de Ruby on Rails) que diu bestieses com aquestes:

Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!

That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.

This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.

Quan un llegeix coses així pot pensar que l'home desvaria, però penso que no, penso que és molt conscient del que fa. A l'era de les xarxes socials el que funciona és el hype i la hipèrbole i a això és dedica en Hansson.

Vist això ens hem de demanar tots junts si la transició del text escrit als vídeos i pòdcasts ha estat una bona idea. El paper ho aguanta tot, diuen, però els vídeos aguanten les tonteries amb molta més fermesa.