Link: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/

Time to find a new VPS host.

Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies "buying in" to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?

I seriously don't understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to "mismanage" it.

Damnit, I just spun up a droplet like three days ago.

Also, how much money does it take to add some dot files to arch?

another one? again?

Never used it but as far as I understand it’s a curated version of arch Linux with various stuff installed and configured right?

Can’t say I hate the idea if it exposes people to Linux, but don’t see why a base configuration is worth investing in

I just don't get it. Separating the art from the artist is not a black and white thing...Like a lot of people worked on the harry potter movies and many people fell in love with those before reading the books, and when Rowling went anti-trans, you could reasonably argue that the films were a collaborative work that you can still love. But this? A pre-configured Arch made by one guy who makes his headline presence maligning minorities? I don't see how giving money to him is anything other than a company saying his views are explicitly endorsed by the donor.

Sigh time to find a new vps host for my projects

Same same, sucks as they seemed neutral but boy do they not seem to care about appearances.

Damn, are we watching live growth of digital Fascist cancer here ? We all get spammed with this worthless, non-special OS in every information outlet, YT, SN's and other for-profit junk outlets. People are getting paid to keep posting about it everywhere.

Pretty disgusting to see how rich Pschos think and act, and pretty disheartening to see our 'non-enshittified' world be enshittified in front of our eyes! Enshittification = Capitalization.

Boycott Omarchy by all means necessary, and help not spreading this Capitalist/Fascist cancer project anywhere.

Even if we do separate the art from artist, what's the actual draw of this distro?

My theory is the tech bros and fascists are trying to get "theirs" in on the Linux side before windows completely sinks everywhere but business.

It's a collection of dotfiles and weak defaults. Prioritizing links to chatgpt and Claude over actual functionality

Anyone have any recommendations?

Omacom Foundation launches with $18.5 million

It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first time in what seems like forever.

To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate.

This nonprofit foundation will hold the trademarks, fund the infrastructure, promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.

These twelve Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:

• Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
• Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
• Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
• Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
• Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
• Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
• Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
• Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
• Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
• Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
• Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
• Yours truly

These Founding Corporate Patrons are each contributing $1 million a year for three years or $1.5 million in tokens, with renewal by mutual agreement:

• DigitalOcean
• Meta Superintelligence Labs

My bet is that the tech bros hang in the same bar, and they’re just doing that for fun, and they don’t really care about the plebes not getting it.

Glad I left Digital Ocean like almost a decade ago, yet it still feels I’ve been with them for too long.

Meanwhile the maintainers of the project it’s based on are unpaid.

Hetzner was good for me, but I went all-in on bare metal, with no looking back.

Really feels like it. Look at the paragraphs and the list here.

The pre-installed stuff is also often configured in a way they leaves it with massive security holes.

It's literally this one techbro's personal vibe coded Arch setup. Also, the guy is an all around awful person.

honestly, if it wasnt for lemmy i would have no idea the guy was racist. i just hear "ruby on rails creator has new distro thats easy to use".

And if it wasn't for your post I wouldn't know he created Ruby on Rails

I'm looking at Linode currently

I thought RackNerd had a better deal for me than digital ocean

How did you do that, self host? Co-locate?

OVH has been reliable and boring afaik

I use Contabo, decent price for a solid VPS. Have only had 12hrs~ of downtime once in the 6 or 8 months I've been a subscriber.

If I had to guess, this is the techbro/epstein crew trying to get a foothold in Linux. The writing is on the wall; Windows is dead, and they want to funnel the migration into their new Omarchy ecosystem. They’ll probably start advertising bigly once Kushner and MBS invest.

For anyone who is struggling to figure out how to delete their DigitalOcean account (it's not obvious):

1. In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
   • This redirected me to a different setting page with an option to deactivate my account
2. Click Deactivate Account
3. Select the checkbox to purge your account data
4. Confirm that you'd like to deactivate and purge your account
5. (Optional but recommended) Fill out the exit survey and tell them that they're supporting a neo-Nazi

It's like a condensed list of the shittiest of tech people, Sans Google

Windows isn't dead, anyone that actually believes that is lying to themselves.

They are too ingrained in business. Yes a couple countries will save a couple billion over the next several years getting off it but that is nothing to the 90 billion MS made in the past 3 months.

Depends how overtly racist you are apparently

Multiple people mentioned there are on the Epstein list. They probably misheard "kitty exploit" as "kiddy exploit".

If you ask AI to do all the work, including the smallest little things, I imagine you can burn through a lot of tokens very quickly.

I think they might mean that Windows is ultimately a dead end. I agree that its far from dead, but Valve really got the ball rolling with Proton.

Now that there's a bunch of bigger influencers "trying Linux" as a daily driver and often having a good experience, coupled with Windows/Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot every other month, I think we're seeing a shift in people's perception (at least regarding what their possible options are). That said, Linux still has a ways to go until it even breaks 10% desktop share, and I don't think it will be a threat even to Apple until Linux hits 15%.

Isn't Omarchy built on top of Arch Linux? I wonder what sort of effect it will have on Arch to have companies injecting millions into this downstream project?

yeah, google have two OSes they're already holding people captive on.

I can't even get to a boot screen on a family member's chromebook to see if I can replace it with a different OS to ChromeOS. Android is getting demolished as we speak too.

I don't like dhh and I think someone like him shouldn't control this much money going into foss but I think the point of omacom is to pay those maintainers

I use GreenCloudVPS for a bunch of things. They used to have VPSes starting at $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB disk, but their current budget deals are still good (starts at $25/year for 4GB RAM and 35GB disk). These are on older hardware (mostly AMD EPYC Rome Zen 2 systems, ~5 years old) which is why they haven't been affected by increased RAM and storage prices yet. https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale

They also have "premium" plans which are newer (AMD EPYC Milan Zen 3 or Genoa Zen 4, and PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage in RAID10): https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/premium-kvm-sale

HostHatch is good too. Their regular pricing aims to compete with Hetzner, but in 13 locations worldwide. https://hosthatch.com/products. They do sometimes have sales on LowEndTalk with pricing similar to GreenCloud's "premium" plans.

RackNerd sometimes have good deals, although they've discontined quite a few of them recently. You can use https://racknerdtracker.com/ to see currently active deals. I still see a 2GB RAM + 35GB storage deal for $35/year for example.

I suspect all the very cheap ones (<$50/year) will eventually increase pricing. GreenCloud and HostHatch own all their hardware. Right now they use older hardware that's already reached break-even, but all hardware needs to be replaced eventually, and the replacement cost for things like enterprise SSDs is a lot higher than it was in the past.

If you want to stick to big names, OVHcloud and Hetzner both have pretty good VPS pricing. OVH runs theirs on very old hardware like Haswell (2014/2015 era) Xeon E5 CPUs which is the main reason why they have cheaper pricing that Hetzner.

There's also AWS Lightsail that's essentially Amazon's version of a VPS. Storage and data transfer are included in the monthly price, unlike EC2 where it costs extra. I'd only use it if you like AWS or want the comfort of using a very big company though - performance is notably worse than a provider like GreenCloudVPS or Hetzner.

I'm not affiliated with any of these companies. This is just my personal experience :)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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They're reliable, but overpriced for what you get, especially after the Akamai acquisition. Akamai are not known for affordability :)

My guess would be renting a dedicated server, or a home server. It can end up cheaper than colo.

self host?

Hosting at home, renting a dedicated server, or colocating are all considered self-hosting.

Check out Linode, it's easy to use, reasonably priced, and as far as I know, hasn't done anything disgusting.

Only downside is that they were acquired a little while ago by a publicly traded company, so the likwlyhood of enshitification is higher.

In the 4.x series, reportedly packaging was updated to use a package using standard Arch packaging format.

If that many evil people/corpos are involved, run as fast as you can the other direction.

Give me community-based distros like Debian, Arch, Mint, etc. I like my Linux democratic, anti-corpo, and inclusive.

This makes users try Omarchy. Users learn about the author and move to a different Linux distribution. All good?

But why? Why is everybody funding this piece of shit? Besides being shit politically it's also shit technically. I don't get it.

Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies "buying in" to hobnob with other wealthy people?

👨‍🚀🔫 always has been

Guy who made a popular thing once announces revolution in efficiency, looks impressive on the surface but is just desktop riding for the uninitiated.

I’m more flabbergasted how little what you have to do to get 3 million

EDIT: Changing this up as I’m sure a lot of people work hard on this thing and perhaps more did before this guy outed himself as a douche

Have you seen GoPros stock price in the 30 days?

To be honest, I think you are the one lying to yourself here.
From the linked report:

Productivity and Business Processes
$37,847
14%

Intelligent Cloud
$39,306
32%

More Personal Computing
$12,854
(4)%

"(4)" equals "-4".

Even MS isn't using windows exclusively.
And they don't care, as the long term scenario they are aiming for, is, that everybody only uses a minimal system and rents compute in the cloud. That's, where the money is for them.
I am quite sure, they don't give a single eff, what those devices are using as an OS. It won't be win 11 for sure.

So everything Windows as we know it, is what's consumer GPUs are to Nvidia.

They aren't putting anything worth upstreaming into their shitty Nazi treehouse