1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.
It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.
The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.
I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol
Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.
Still not convinced it’s very popular.
Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."
I didn’t know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn’t many users?
I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.
Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.
It’s probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don’t pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.
Ah didn’t realize it came preinstalled lol.
spoiler
Prepackaged “superior” arch distro and the best they could come up with was 1Password? seriously lol?
1Password is the best they could come up with when “best” is measured in dollars contributed.
That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn’t just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it’s product placement in return for funding.
I’m on the fence if that’s better or worse.
Terrible security record?
Of the items listed in your link, only the second one seems problematic, in that I wish they had discovered the (non-password but still privacy related) issues first. Even that section acknowledges all of the issues are fixed. The only section that makes it sound like there is still a problem is the last one, which states that version X still contains the vulnerabilities, but in reality that’s just how versions work. Patching a vulnerability creates a new version.
Is there ANY record of passwords being leaked from 1password because of their own lack of security??
I said somewhere else that giving money to a distro won’t even have an ROI, but I didn’t know about this. If the distro is promoting their product that’s a whole other thing.
lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.
They are nonfree.
Probably because Omarchy is preinstalling 1password.
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
1Password says “Our contribution is made to the Omacom Foundation, not to an individual” but there are many instances of their VP of product praising DHH https://x.com/jmeller/status/1971530423030387081 https://x.com/jmeller/status/2094132068342964671
Why isn’t this in the article? That’s literally a journalist’s job to provide that kind of context.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
Lex Fridman, The Primeagen and friends are also to blame
of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
All seven users.
From Omarchy’s site:
malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!
Wtf
Why I use KeyPass – which is FOSS – instead of entrusting everything to a privately-run paid website which can turn against everyone at anytime.
edit: to that wiseacre below, do you think it’s better to go back to passwords in a notepad? 🤣
Wasn’t Omarchy literally just a couple of dotfiles for Arch and a easy Installer?
It also has a few native apps now.
Which are slop.
Wouldn’t put it past them.
“Beautiful, fun and agentic linux” I bet they vibe coded all of them lol, this is a HUGE red flag
The backlash to 1Password’s funding should have been predictable
Managers don’t know shit
The worst part is, giving money to a Linux distro isn’t likely to have any real return on investment, so why is it even worth a risk of backlash?
Indeed. Maybe nazi?
It preinstalls their app.
Aw man, I use them because they’re Canadian but fuck them, I guess. I wonder how hard it is to switch to another password manager. I’m especially concerned with how passkeys work.
Why does Omarchy even need this money when it’s run by a billionaire?
This song have just been sent to Arch or some Linux foundations.
Because there are multiple Linux options, once the commercial versions flood in, the most marketed will grab the biggest share of the uninformed populace. So obviously the billionaires want to wrestle control over it.
Thankfully it looks so unserious that it will not capture anyone except ‘windows/mac power users’.
So the majority of people.
I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
Controversy? Never.
Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.
Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.
popular? among who?
never heard of it.
Well damn, guess I’ll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?
KeePass + Syncthing
Completely local vault in sync with however many endpoints you need
Is that a FOSS thing? Never done that before. Are there decent guides for getting it set up?
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I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.
