Omarchy has me questioning liking Rails because it just… straight up sucks?
It comes preloaded with friggen ZOOM. I don’t think Windows bloat is that bad.
If it makes people happy it makes people happy I guess. These guys trying it would be even more amazed at Fedora Workstation (“you can press windows and it shows all your open windows? That’s so much better”)
(Not a Rails developer, just an outside observer)
Isn't Rails highly opinionated with a focus on being batteries-included? I'm not defending the choice to include Zoom but a batteries-included (for better or for worse) distro is exactly what I would expect from the creator of Rails.
I don't find it to be too bloated, and the things I don't like I simply uninstall.
So far its the best Linux Desktop experience I've had, and I hardly have to configure anything out of the box, most of it just works.
That’s awesome! Everyone has different tastes. Personally I love GNOME because it’s extremely productive and works out of the box.
Yeah, GNOME was my previous preference, but I don't see myself going back now
Learning the hotkeys in Omarchy is a bit of a process, but there is a hotkey to show the hotkeys lol (super + K) - and once you get used to them, its super productive, at least to me.
A lot of the "pre-install bloat" are just web apps, including Zoom. Zoom is just an 8 line file so it appears in the menu and to point it to a 22 line bash script to launch the app.zoom.us website at the right address.
Easy to remove. Can even open your favourite AI assistant and ask it to remove it, since it comes with an Omarchy skill and knows how to change everything.
> Easy to remove
See this is where its going too far IMO.
When you setup rails, you get far fewer "batteries" by default.
Its batteries included, but opt-in to be included.
That is totally different from installing an OS and having bloatware already included.
It'll get there with enough community support hopefully, but the current state is very rough(much like early rails)
i don't understand why DHH is shipping so much bloat in omarchy. The better solution would be to ask if user wants to install bloatware during installation.
DHH created a distro for what he personally needs for work, and his company uses Zoom.
It's that simple.
There are far better ways to handle setting up a workstation for one's needs than spinning a new distro.
Perfect example of a usecase for nixOS. Single file and its got everything DHH wants.
Thats pretty good, then he should have made a toolkit for building and rolling your own badass distro and not a "opinionated" "omakase" system that claims to solve all of deskop linux while personally mocking a lot of people that actually have made real contributions as "clowns".
dhh understands what a good user experience is. Installing in a couple minutes and getting right into it is an amazing start compared to most operating systems that take ages to setup.
Plus, many pre-installs (like Zoom) are web-apps that take no space (30 lines of text) and are easy to remove if you don't want them in the menu.
Well, DHH is a moron. I don't know if he always was, but he clearly is now.