You need to switch to Linux RIGHT NOW!

Everything I love about Linux desktop: fast workspace switching, tiling, minimal setup time and bleeding-edge-with-a-stability-buffer:

A lot of hype, big names and money. But this looks extremely promising. It is similar to what Kali Linux is to Debian Testing, but, for Arch. Does this type of distro interest you guys. @toadie you are our community “BTW I use Arch”… thoughts?

Times are… correction: “times have changed”. :penguin:

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I’ve seen quite a lot of hype around Omarchy indeed. However, (to me at least) it carries with it the fact that one of the lead developers seems to have rather racist, “white-supremacist” opinions (e.g. this blog post). I can’t in good conscience recommend or try Omarchy (besides preferences for my Linux desktop).

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I’ve testet Omarchy long time ago. it was ok - but not more.
Now with the AI stuff I will never use this piece of software.

Clickbait Video

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100% on the title of video title :joy:. You know years ago I was tempted to change the blog article titles to something like:

“Use this trick to get rid of most Linux performance issue”

“You must download this tool if you work as a sysadmin”

“You are leaving Linux performance on the table if you don’t install this now”

lol. It was tempting because they DO get traffic. A lot more traffic when if you try to bait the content with titles like this.

But then I remember how much I hate when news outlets and large tech outlets do this to topics I really care about and I’m forced to scan to the middle of an article just to find out it was more hype, than fact. Or what the answer to the bait was.

Not saying if that YT channel does that for all his videos or not. I really don’t follow as generally his urgent way of speaking is a bit too much for me. But I didn’t want my choice be a reason not to share.

I’m glad for the added context by @andreas while immigration is very complex, it also reminds me of web forums, everyone loves and welcomes new people coming in until the forum gets busy and has everything it needs. Then the influx starts to annoy members and leaders because the community now has 100k topics with many discussed multiple times. At this point some forums will even restrict signups or be rude to new digital immigrants starting with not much knowledge, or power, trying to find their way, their growth, their place, in a community and online culture, new to them.

I guess it’s like the blog titles, we just have to ask ourselves: “how would I like to be treated if the shoes were on my feet?” Both sides have to pose these questions and therein lies the balance where everyone can get along.

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I didn’t find anything racist in his blog post.

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Maybe, a strong word. Mainly because it’s difficult to prove or disprove intent. But as I usually do you I ran it through my saved AI prompt that gives unbiased feedback (becuase the prompting is framed to fight for both sides before response) and it came back with this:

Excerpt from summary at the end:

The article’s strongest feature is that it identifies several genuine issues that should not simply be dismissed because they are politically uncomfortable. Its weakest feature is that it packages those issues into a single narrative of demographic “replacement” and authoritarian decline without providing enough evidence to establish that the narrative itself is correct.

The writing disavows racism while running on a premise (ethnic ancestry defines national belonging) that is the load-bearing idea of ethnonationalism. You can call the argument racist in structure without needing a verdict on the man. Whether that makes him racist is exactly the question the essay is built to let him dodge.

It really went into the fine details; if anyone is interested in the entire response, you can DM me and I’ll paste it there. But so as not to take this Linux topic too far off-topic I think an excerpt of the summary is enough. Who is behind the software, products and services we use is important; therefore, I think that added context was on topic.

We can all then have differing takeaways. And that’s totally fair.

For me, I think @andreas saw through the… “the essay is built to let him dodge” and even without the label, I tend to agree the piece leans closer in that direction, than not.

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