Mainstream distro users/contributors were too busy arguing that Debian is better than Slackware, Arch is better than Debian, Ubuntu is for noobs and now NixOS (whatever that is) reigns supreme. All that reduced the UX of these distros to the lowest common denominator, with varying degrees of skill requirements to get the thing working.
What if everything people wanted was a riced Arch/Ubuntu distro that was trivial to install on pretty much anything and not a lecture on how non-free drivers/software can't be included, leaving your machine unable to connect to the internet?
Re:Stop Omarchy
by cocoricamo on Saturday September 12, 2026 @07:47AM
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Agree, but some people let their whole lives be controlled by whatever their political thinking is and attack whatever they see as different.
It means that the alternative distros are not quite effective in their own marketing and Omarchy was able to market and attract funds to their distro better than others, despite the views of the creator.
The alternative distros need a proper answer to Omarchy and invest in serious marketing and let the user choose for themselves just like alternative car manufacturers, which even if you check their history, its quite bad and even worse than a distro.