Replying to @⁨ariadne@social.treehouse.systems⁩

a lot of people do not understand what omarchy actually *is* and why it is making progress where traditional distributions have failed.

they focus on the fact that omarchy *is* a vanity distro, that it is basically a collection of configuration files and some shell scripts gluing them together.

and omarchy is that.

but omarchy is also marketing and devrel, and a consolidation of the linux experience into a product format.

in fact, that is most of what omarchy actually *is*.

building a technical community that understands & executes on these things would be the goal of what i propose building

Replying to @⁨ariadne@social.treehouse.systems⁩

@ariadne @ska They most likely are installing it because the YouTubers they watch have done "publicherries" (ads disguised as reviews) of Omarchy. It also appeals to 'for power users' with a gazillion different hotkeys. That is not Linux as a product imho. Not sure if they have more users than Arch for example.

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Replying to @⁨PuercoPop@mastodon.social⁩

@ariadne @ska I agree that making a Linux distro more approachable by the everyday person would be a good thing. Omarchy might market itself as such, but its not. f/e it comes with 4+ terminals configured. Its not a focused, opinionated, experience.

ElementaryOS has been working on a desktop experience for regular users for a long time. Maybe with more funds for marketing they could be more successful? idk. ikt marketing is the most important thing to drive adoption.

elementary.io/

elementary.io/