Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.

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      Since Nix have had some controversy (tldr), I’m just adding the Gnu Guix distro, as an (FOSS) alternative to Nix.

      Both are ‘declarative’ systems that are build/configured from a configuration file - amongst other goodness.

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        I remember someone here saying just recently that they used pacstrap on a live nixos system to install arch over it without a usb, which seems like the ultimate way to distromog nixcels

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      It’s worth mentioning something in order to point out why it’s bad? It’s in the news right now and people are currently discussing it, and it’s not like someone is going to read this article and be more likely to go support it

      This article is saying that Omarchy isn’t doing anything that novel or special, and that this developer is trying to create a tool that will allow anyone to do the same thing without millions of dollars of funding

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      The nazi bar problem I understand, but why is using open source provided by a nazi wrong?

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        what happens when the next update is the one that puts spyware in it and hands it directly to big brother?

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        I don’t particularly care in the abstract but this particular piece of software is also technically awful vibecoded slop. And DHH isn’t a random nazi, but a nazi with a platform provided by the popularity of his slopware.