My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS
As a 57-year-old who has been using Linux since 2011, my thoughts about this new OS are somewhat divided. I do not like to take a puritanical perspective towards anything in life, but as a matter of fact, I question this new OS on at least one major point:
Many Linux users decide to tie their workflow to a reliable machine that runs an OS with security, performance, and privacy as their primordial focus.
I wonder: to what extent can I use 'Omarchy' OS without being tracked all over my private work decisions?
Any OS security is attached to the development team's ethics. All of them have access to everything if they want to.
The golden question is: do I feel 'secure' knowing that oligarchs are behind the funding?
My personal decision?
I will never use it, nor even try it.
No, thank you—not another giant potential 'spyware' machine.
I run Ubuntu and Linux Mint (specifically the Xfce version, prioritising performance over aesthetics).
(My very first contact with Linux was Debian, which I ran inside VirtualBox on a Windows host using the VirtualBox Extension Pack and Guest Additions. The learning curve was a traditional one: if you wanted to know something, you had to learn it yourself. You read the manuals and dealt with the fantastic, yet controversial, community of that era!)
Both of my daughters are IT engineers, and we share a very similar viewpoint on this matter.