maybe i should build something like omarchy that isn't, you know, omarchy

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

in essence omarchy is a mechanism to take linux and turn it into a product, in the same way that macOS takes darwin and turns it into a product.

traditional linux distributions, by comparison, aren't defined products, they are work output from technical communities, and the design of them is approached from that philosophy.

somebody has already suggested that we should build this on Nix or whatever.

and like, you're just not getting the point.

the package management? flatpak.

managing software needs to be obvious. package managers ain't it.

on mac, you install apps from either the app store or by dragging them to the applications folder.

@ariadne so like, flatpak already has a distribution: flathub

@whitequark correct.

@ariadne what do you want to do different? (one thing I notice is that FlatHub isn't exactly a product, either)

@whitequark nothing. there is nothing wrong with flathub.

what i am proposing is building just enough of a distribution to boot a shell, and then have the real apps come from flathub.

@ariadne oh, that makes a lot of sense. I'm for it, though it's not obvious how to generate enough mindshare with this plan