alt Hacker NewsOmarchy has me questioning liking Rails because it just… straight up sucks?
It comes preloaded with friggen ZOOM. I don’t think Windows bloat is that bad.
If it makes people happy it makes people happy I guess. These guys trying it would be even more amazed at Fedora Workstation (“you can press windows and it shows all your open windows? That’s so much better”)
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I don't find it to be too bloated, and the things I don't like I simply uninstall.
So far its the best Linux Desktop experience I've had, and I hardly have to configure anything out of the box, most of it just works.
A lot of the "pre-install bloat" are just web apps, including Zoom. Zoom is just an 8 line file so it appears in the menu and to point it to a 22 line bash script to launch the app.zoom.us website at the right address.
Easy to remove. Can even open your favourite AI assistant and ask it to remove it, since it comes with an Omarchy skill and knows how to change everything.
i don't understand why DHH is shipping so much bloat in omarchy. The better solution would be to ask if user wants to install bloatware during installation.
(Not a Rails developer, just an outside observer)
Isn't Rails highly opinionated with a focus on being batteries-included? I'm not defending the choice to include Zoom but a batteries-included (for better or for worse) distro is exactly what I would expect from the creator of Rails.