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maipen • today at 3:59 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

If you took the time to really analyze their codebase and judge, why don't you submit some PRs to help them improve?

It makes no sense to put them down on HN. I love using Omarchy, and like many others, I coudln't care less about what's going on under the hood. It works great for me, is OSS and I can tweak it anytime I want. Critical Bugs get caught quick too.


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cromka • today at 5:03 PM

> If you took the time to really analyze their codebase and judge, why don't you submit some PRs to help them improve?

You think it's the same amount of time for both?

> It makes no sense to put them down on HN

Put them down? How, by sharing what I saw in their codebase, which anyone else can also do?

That's some apologist nonsense here and you sound super biased with those suggestions. I made and effort to assess the technicality of what I saw and I would absolutely stay away from what they do.

> Critical Bugs get caught quick too.

This is not just about kernel oops kind of bugs with a nice trace that LLM will fix in 5 minuyes. It's the race conditions, the lockups, all type of architectural, high-level things that their code does that create non-deterministic bugs, i.e. untraceable and virtually unfixable by LLMs nor a human being.

The fact this needs explaining even...

Normal_gaussian • today at 4:41 PM

As someone who hasn't looked at the repositories in question;

> why don't you submit some PRs to help them improve?

Is often a non-starter. If you believe a codebase is poor quality, any changes to improve it have a strong risk of making it worse and/or wasting your own time. In the case that you aren't a key player in said codebase already, it is even more likely your attempts to make changes will fail. Its not impossible to improve these repositories however doing so is quite a different skill-set to identifying their failings.

bigyabai • today at 4:48 PM

> I coudln't care less about what's going on under the hood.

This is why there will likely be fragmented efforts for bringing up the hardware. Asahi already struggled merging all of their patches into the kernel, there's a 99%+ chance that Omarchy's patches will never be fully upstreamed if the reverse engineered devicetree is uninterpretable vibeslop.

So, even though Asahi's the slow-and-steady side, it makes a lot more sense to channel your effort there.

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