It shows a picture of a AI generated image of a king and queen referencing them as Omarchy users. Then it shows a floating icon of a jester representing Linux users that pops up some of the following quotes:
- The peasants whiper the whole distro castle vibe-coded
- It’s a bunch of dotfiles
- Ricing is not engineering, my liege
- Congratulations, you have discovered i3
- Two JPEG’s, a gradient, and delusions of monarchy
- Zero days since the last zero day, sire
- Coronation was on Tueday, the build was red
- Wait until they hear about NixOS
- It’s not a distro, . It’s a theme folder with a domain name
- It’s the worst distro in the market, they cry. Its not even a distro
I believe this whole thing was done in response of some “monarchy” and “oligarchy” comments on Omarchy around the fediverse. It is also sometimes weird to get the “joke” because the speaker changes.
You present two options of cause and effect as mutually exclusive, but I think both options belong together as one.
You’re not making them ONLY infamous with your post, but also equally famous with the crowd that might have otherwise missed them completely. A large community gives rise to influence.
You can for example look at how the german extreme right party is gaining more and more followers and support even though they are only ever in the news for outrageously dumb or criminal stuff they did.