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the code smells of fashtech: omarchy (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
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"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.

According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch's installer take literally 5 times the disk space?

EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 1 day ago

this screenshot hurts me.

So "update omarchy" just means "do a git pull on the dotfiles repo" and it doesn't even seem to be passing --depth 1 because we see info on several branches being updated and the entire "update" weighs in at 1.01 MiB just for 1 line change in the conf file to (I assume) make steam work nicely with hyprland....

This really reeks of not caring in the slightest about your users, almost to the point of "if they don't know better and can't figure out how to do it properly on their own, then they deserve to suffer".