David Peach

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24th August 2026

Oh my god I am being surrounded by videos / people etc going on about Omarchy being the next big thing and how building your own arch install is a “waste of time”… hmm.

Also what’s with d_hh essentially crapping on all the people who built gnu/linux in really back-handed compliments.

“…nerdy, pocket-protector, completely devoid of style…who wrote good 40,000,000 lines of code… we’re layering on nice asthetics”

It’s literally a bunch of techbros, yet again, bowing to this guy who basically vibe-coded some themes and configured some programs. All to try and “package up” linux into some set of prducts and a… conference? lmao

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24th August 2026

Gavin

@david You mean this guy? https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Yeah, I wouldn’t use want to use anything he’s been anywhere near. He’s a genuinely horrible person.
1. 24th August 2026
  
  David Peach
  
  Ye I’m aware of his “output” and I agree with you 100%.
  
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  1. 24th August 2026
    
    Gavin
    
    @david I find it alarming he hasn’t been completely excommunicated from the FOSS world.
    
    There are plenty of other distros, so why are people still talking about Omarchy.
    1. 24th August 2026
      
      DFYX
      
      @gavin57 @david Getting rid of him completely might be difficult. After all, he is still the lead developer behind Ruby on Rails which powers a lot of FOSS web services including Mastodon. We would either need to hard fork Rails or rebuild a lot of stuff in a different framework or even language.
      
      But yeah, we probably shouldn't jump on even more of his projects.
24th August 2026

DFYX

@david Even not considering what I think of DHH as a person, I'm immediately suspicious of anything that has "by [person]" directly in the first line of its description.

A "by the developers of [other project]" is fine but does the FOSS community really need to deify individual people? Shouldn't this be about working together?