A user on Twitter, or X as it's called now, posted something saying: "Parch Linux is a stupid project.

[sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

A user on Twitter, or X as it's called now, posted something saying: "Parch Linux is a stupid project. Period."

Then, when someone asked for their reason, they replied:

"A useless project driven by the ego of its creator. Look at what DHH has done with Omarchy. He is actually HELPING people. What has Parch achieved?"

I don't care about other distributions or how they develop or not. I don't see this as a competition at all. Every distribution has its own goal. Acting like that wouldn't be befitting of me as a distribution developer.

But the point is that most of the hype around the Omarchy distribution comes from it being developed by a famous person. I haven't even installed it to see if it offers anything special (7 gigabytes of download takes a long time on my internet), but this behavior from people suddenly gathering and making simplistic final judgments, dismissing the efforts of a group of people is not good at all, and it's seen quite often.

I've been developing this distribution alone for a long time, so logically, I can't manage everything at once. For example, the development of the Parch store, which was supposed to be done with Rust and GTK, is currently suspended because we don't have contributors. Right now, with university starting, the only thing I can do is make sure the distribution maintains its stability. Because of this, I couldn't reach the roadmap I had set, and many parts weren't completed. But some people don't see these things and have strange expectations from a developer who initially built something just for themselves and doesn't receive any money in return.

Sorry for ranting too much; I haven't been around for a while and wanted to start being active again a bit :)

#parchlinux

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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[sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano
thank you Stefano for your kind comment and your support