Checked 13 October 2026

Sources

The site quotes Omarchy's own pages, DHH's own posts, GitHub, and named reporting. Pledge totals move. If a homepage number and a news post disagree, the news post is the one with a date.

The project, in its own words

• omarchy.us, the marketing homepage. Install timing, "agents that debug all issues," "We can fix everything," the download count, the star count, the pledge counter, "Backed by the oligarchy." Read 13 October 2026.
• The Omarchy Doctrine. Benevolent dictatorship, codes of conduct, agents, the link to oligarchy.fyi.
• oligarchy.fyi. "Elite capital. Public code."
• Patrons.
• Manual: Security. "Extremely seriously," the five controls, passwordless sudo up to 1,440 minutes.
• Manual: AI. "Don't-stop-to-ask modes."
• Manual: Unattended installs. Disk passphrase in plaintext on the cidata drive. (Linked from the manual's own chapter list.)
• github.com/omacom/omarchy. README: "a beautiful, fun & agentic Linux distribution by DHH." MIT license.
• Archived basecamp/omarchy, 26 August 2025. Description: "Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup."
• 3 September 2026, token patrons. Quattro "almost exclusively been built by agents." Dotfiles "wasn't entirely wrong at the time." "Hundreds of thousands of users." Anthropic was in this post when The Register archived it.
• omarchy-site pull request 408. The Register cites this for Anthropic's removal on the morning of 18 September 2026.
• 21 August 2026, exclusive Hyprland sponsor. "Hello self." The girlfriend parenthetical.
• 31 August 2026, 1Password and 37signals.
• 9 September 2026, DigitalOcean.
• 22 September 2026, Alibaba Cloud.
• 8 October 2026, SpaceXAI, $1.5 million in Grok tokens.
• 9 October 2026, Namespace. Homepage counter at $23.5 million.
• 2 October 2026, $100,000 HackerOne pool.
• 26 September 2026, ThePrimeagen, Agentic QA, the harness named Oligarchy.
• 3 September 2026, patronage opened. "The foundation is not just for the Oligarchy."
• Plugin terms, example page: plugins.omarchy.org. "Third-party plugins run as unsandboxed code."

Security fixes and reviews

• Pull request 7929, Omarchy 4.0.1 notes, and the release entry mirrored at newreleases.io.
• #7001 agent bypass flags. #7847 video titles. #7926 notification clicks. #7884 themes. #8129 USB names as Lua. #8056 docker group. #7904 FIDO2 temp file. #8172 PATH. #8046 sudo reset helper. #8067 and #8174 git transports.
• 0xcc, "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root," 28 August 2026. Docker group from 1 June 2025 to 24 August 2026.
• Happy Fellow, "Merchants of Insecurity," 25 August 2026. Same post at blog.happyfellow.dev.
• Commit a15d374, "Increase faillock to 10," file install/config/increase-sudo-tries.sh. The comment in the file: ten tries instead of three, for fat fingers. Related issue #1622, closed by DHH on 1 February 2026.
• Marius, "A Word on Omarchy". The 3.0.2-era review: password install, the 6.2 GB ISO, the 1.8 GB first update, the app list, the screensaver, the migration scripts, sudo retries. Written against the tree when the repository was still basecamp/omarchy.
• Issue #6234. Screensaver at 150 seconds, lock at 152, on 3.8.3.
• Issue #2094. Missing /etc/pam.d/hyprlock, correct password rejected.
• Issue #9184. Lock handoff flashes the desktop, 4.0.1.
• Drew DeVault, 9 April 2024, on the freedesktop.org ban of Vaxry.

Money and the backlash to it

• The Register, Liam Proven, 17 September 2026, updated 18 September. $18.5 million at time of writing, tokens and multi-year pledges, Anthropic removed, Geuter, Garrett, Stop Omarchy.
• 1Password Community thread, opened 31 August 2026.
• Romea.cz, 6 September 2026. The Faugno sentence, attributed to internal mail acquired by The Verge.
• Jürgen Geuter, "Power grab," 11 September 2026.
• Brennan Kenneth Brown, "Normalized fascism in open source".
• Stop Omarchy.

DHH, in his words and in the replies

• "As I remember London," 15 September 2025.
• Ethnic groups in London. White British: 59.8% (2001), 36.8% (2021). The page his essay links.
• DHH on X, 28 November 2025. The Telegraph's "white British" line, linked back to the London essay.
• Tommy Robinson, criminal offences.
• "Wolves, sheep, and gypsies". His own posting of the sentence: 21 July 2026 and 8 August 2026.
• Tekin Süleyman, "The Ruby community has a DHH problem," September 2025. Census reading, the Jay Report, the later blog titles, Rails governance.
• Niccolò Venerandi, "Let's talk about DHH," 17 November 2025.
• Paul Jensen, "On DHH's As I Remember London," 17 September 2025.
• Jake Lazaroff, "DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought".
• "The waning days of DEI's dominance" and "The law of the land".
• Duke University Libraries, "Why We're Dropping Basecamp," 30 November 2023.
• ACLED, demonstrations and political violence in America, summer 2020. Duke cites this.
• The Verge, Casey Newton, "Breaking Camp," 27 April 2021 and the all-hands follow-up, 3 May 2021.
• Joel Drapper, "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover," 23 September 2025. Read with Jean Boussier's reply.
• Ruby Central, "Strengthening the Stewardship of RubyGems and Bundler," 19 September 2025.
• Ruby Central, 17 October 2025. Repository ownership moved to the Ruby core team.
• Ikey Doherty, "Ikey Doherty vs Tech Industry," 5 September 2026. His description of the wolves post and the funding. Coverage: It's FOSS, 7 September 2026.
• DHH on the WordPress plugin takeover, October 2024. Quoted by Drapper.
• Tom Stuart, "The DHH Problem," 2014.
• Jeff Atwood, "Douchebaggery," 2008.

Shopify

• PressProgress, Luke LeBrun, 10 July 2024. Kaz Nejatian, True North, the deleted Gavin McInnes interview, Lütke's "products are speech," Rachel Gilmore on the shops and the staff note.
• Public Safety Canada, listed terrorist entities. The Proud Boys entry is the one PressProgress quotes.

How to read a conflict

Where this site describes a GitHub pull request, the pull request is the source. Where it describes a pledge, the dated Omarchy news post is the source. Where it describes a meeting inside Ruby Central, that is Joel Drapper's reporting, and the page says so. Where it gives a criminal conviction, the pointer is the Wikipedia criminal-offences section and the court outcomes summarized there.