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Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root by damanamathos on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:28PM (#49505256)
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.

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Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root by adverbly on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:45PM (#49505348)
> Easy to remove

See this is where its going too far IMO.

When you setup rails, you get far fewer "batteries" by default.

Its batteries included, but opt-in to be included.

That is totally different from installing an OS and having bloatware already included.

It'll get there with enough community support hopefully, but the current state is very rough(much like early rails)

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