I saw J. Blow's post. I'd love to see a new OS. It's easy to get on the internet and provide armchair criticism, especially when you're as storied as he is, but how does that get funded? Who actually makes it happen? It is a fun thought experiment, but I fear for a world where some VC-backed startup creates a new pit to fall in.
If I've learned any lessons in building software, it's that you very often have to strangle the old to make way for the new, but you get stuck in hell if you try to do it all at once. Getting Linux adoption up and general support improved, and then leveraging it as a WSL-esque bootstrap into a new OS might be a way.
On Komorebi, put simply, as an OSS maintainer I think me and that maintainer see the world a very different way. Would use it if not for the approach to licensing - does look cool!
I've been running Omarchy since last week. The theming is fun.
Getting used to hyprland and walker has been a short and eye-opening experience. I've had tiling before on Windows, but I've never been forced to use the tiling exclusively.
I'm all in on the vision behind Omarchy. I recognize DHH has a bit of an enthusiastic bent - He's been obsessive about Omarchy for the past month, and his opinions change. In some ways, he lives by the mantra "strong opinions, weakly held". I don't think that's a flaw.
I get the sense that this one is "the one" -- It's a foundation of linux that is entirely dependent on opinions, and DHH has them.
But, I think more importantly, the groundswell around the project highlights that there's a general dissatisfaction with the state of operating systems. The move to Linux has long been overdue for me personally. I'm incredibly tired of Windows and the Microsoft shenanigans. The adware on what should be a personal computer is an abomination.
I see Omarchy as an opinionated way of composing Linux in such a way that it offers a uniquely different premise of what an OS can be.
So far, I'm loving it, but am still tethered to Windows for some work stuff.
If I've learned any lessons in building software, it's that you very often have to strangle the old to make way for the new, but you get stuck in hell if you try to do it all at once. Getting Linux adoption up and general support improved, and then leveraging it as a WSL-esque bootstrap into a new OS might be a way.
On Komorebi, put simply, as an OSS maintainer I think me and that maintainer see the world a very different way. Would use it if not for the approach to licensing - does look cool!