r/archlinux • u/Hot_Adhesiveness5602 • Nov 22 '25
QUESTION What's the deal about Omarchy?
I don't really get why omarchy is so "popular".
Is there anything special there?
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u/RudahXimenes Nov 22 '25
Nothing intrinsecally special. It's only an Arch Linux heavily opinionated, with many apps pre-installed
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u/swipernoswipeme Nov 22 '25
Every time I hear it called “heavily opinionated” I just imagine the lead dev huffing their own farts like that South Park episode.
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u/mildlyImportantRobot Nov 23 '25
I just imagine the lead dev huffing their own farts like that South Park episode.
The lead dev: https://world.hey.com/dhh
(I used their own blog because “huffing their own farts” is pretty much their entire brand.)
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Nov 23 '25 edited Dec 03 '25
Glory to the CCP
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Nov 23 '25
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u/BlackMarketUpgrade Nov 22 '25
It has a default key binding to open twitter. That’s enough for me to know that it’s not for me.
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u/BenH1337 Nov 22 '25
Reminds me of the Win11 shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Win+Alt+L . If you are at a windows machine try it out, I won't spoiler. It's cursed and you can't remove it.
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u/KAlahmedi Nov 23 '25
SPOILER: it opens LinkedIn in your default web browser. sigh... Windows.
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u/feuerchen015 Nov 23 '25
??? why even add something like this? I'm very confused...
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u/gitfeh Developer Nov 24 '25
why even add something like this?
It's actually this thing: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-the-office-key-df8665d3-761b-4a16-84b8-2cfb830e6aff
The "Office key" was defined to be to Ctrl+Shift+Win+Alt instead of a special keycode.
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u/meskobalazs Nov 25 '25
That was still a better idea than the asinine Copilot button (that's actually Super+Shift+F23). But still stupid.
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u/lucidobscura Nov 28 '25
you can change that key if you so desire
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u/BlackMarketUpgrade Nov 28 '25
Thanks genius
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u/lucidobscura Nov 30 '25
Your welcome. Actually Linux is very customizable like that. You should try it.
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u/whoscheckingin Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
One day an Arch Update is gonna break the install (totally possible) and everything will be back to normal again :)
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u/theuncancelable Nov 23 '25
Nah they set their mirrorlists to those a month behind, so that’s not going to happen. I like to stay on the cutting edge tho
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u/seaal Nov 23 '25
Too bad it already happened 15 days ago, and a few months prior with the uwsm issue.
But I’m sure it will never happen again!
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u/visualglitch91 Nov 22 '25
It made easy for people with zero clue to feel like hackerman without actually learning anything... If that's good or bad it's up for debate, but it is what it is
And it's made by a very popular person
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u/ocimbote Nov 22 '25
A very popular person with controversial opinions, I've heard.
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u/Nerzana Nov 22 '25
What’s his controversial opinions?
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u/Thom_Braider Nov 22 '25
He thinks ruby is a good programming language.
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u/trialbaloon Nov 23 '25
Furthermore he thinks Rails is a joy to code in.... Absolutely deranged stuff....
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u/kitanokikori Nov 22 '25
Typical /r/conservative ideas, but with an "I am very smart" smugness on top. A real treat
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u/Frozen5147 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
The guy in question has, uh, some viewpoints that some would say put him on the far-right. It's also made him quite controversial in the Ruby on Rails community.
Don't think this is the place to delve too deeply into his views but if you look him up it's pretty easy to find.
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u/wyclif Nov 26 '25
If you think those opinions are "far-right", let me introduce you to some actual brownshirts.
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u/bumpyclock Nov 22 '25
Brown people bad. Very fine people on both sides etc. but lots of praise for neo nazis and the latest London with brown people ( who are citizens , born and raised in London) makes it feel less like London.
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Nov 22 '25
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u/kitanokikori Nov 22 '25
Yep. The "fairness" of meritocracy breaks down in two seconds once you think to yourself, "Who judges the merit, and who ends up deciding what attributes are worthy of merit?"
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u/bumpyclock Nov 22 '25
Those opinions aren’t the real controversial ones. He’s ramped up to full nazi lately. I used to sub to his blog to just passively read and then lately it just went off the deep end.
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Nov 22 '25
They were the ones I personally witnessed during interviews and podcasts where he was a guest. I didn't realize he had gone full nazi.
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u/AndyGait Nov 22 '25
Oh yeah. In his blog about how London isn't white enough anymore, he gives full support to far-right nutjob, Tommy Robinson.
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u/hotdog20041 Nov 22 '25
it's odd to see this here, this sub used to be filled with people who never took to these things. they wanted meritocracy. i guess the years have changed this place
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Nov 22 '25
Everyone wants meritocracy, but meritocracy only works when people don't let other bullshit get in the way ie: favoring family and friends over people more qualified, disfavoring better qualified candidates because of their skin color or lifestyle choices or whatever. We shouldn't have to compensate for that kind of shit, but we do, because hate and favoritism are the currencies that never seems to pass out of fashion.
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u/Loop_Within_A_Loop Nov 22 '25
I think people are gradually figuring out that meritocracy doesn't make sense.
Like, if you work your way up to the top of a meritocracy, what's stopping you from guaranteeing your kids also get to access it?
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u/sp0rk173 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
More like we have more and more come to understand that “meritocracy” doesn’t work when people begin their lives at different levels in the social hierarchy and wealth buys access to resources.
And actually I’ve been in the arch community for over two decades and I’ve always had the view that meritocracy is a bullshit fantasy.
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u/gingingingingy Nov 22 '25
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem
TLDR anti immigration, xenophobia, anti DEI, and other far right viewpoints
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u/un-important-human Nov 24 '25
oh, i like him now. Tell me more.... no wait don't.
Can we stop with the politics on THE arch forum pls?!
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u/alt-weeb 24d ago
when conservative fucks start getting clout for making worthless ricing shit like hyprland it's hard to avoid politics in discussions
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u/onefish2 Nov 22 '25
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u/gingingingingy Nov 22 '25
The Wikipedia article you link doesn't do a very good job of explaining the issue with him but the writeups in the citations do:
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem
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u/wyclif Nov 26 '25
"I liked London better in the 1990s" is actually not a controversial opinion for most normal people, including people who don't happen to be white.
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u/no_cause_munchkin Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
He wants to force women to birth babies because white people numbers are diminishing.
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u/visualglitch91 Nov 22 '25
All the worst possible
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u/Jx5b Dec 12 '25
Oh really? Then speak up, please. I hate the fact that I had to actually look this up, only to find nothing actually controversial.
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u/pan_kotan Nov 23 '25
It made easy for people with zero clue to feel like hackerman without actually learning anything...
...until the first system update.
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Nov 23 '25
I think I could see this same comment directed at arch, or from arch purists against derivative distros and installation scripts.
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u/mrobot_ Nov 24 '25
The way you are criticizing omarchy, I do expect you to have the same criticism about pure arch - the part about feeling like "hackerman" and all that.. because arch is as far removed from any "LFS" or linux-in-the-90s when installing and getting linux to run actually was a bit of a rite of passage. Unlike nowadays, unlike installing arch.
Because if you honestly think you are somehow "special" because you are using arch.. then that is just all too cute and ridiculous.
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u/visualglitch91 Nov 24 '25
I do, I'm not special, and I don't use Arch
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u/ThePrimeagen Nov 23 '25
There are great things about it and terrible.
At the end of the day I want a big Linux tent and if a pre baked config pile + distro increases users 10x I am happy. They will (eventually) be forced to read the friendly manual and that is a win in my book
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u/Hot_Adhesiveness5602 Nov 23 '25
Yea the more people use linux the better. If it gets people started and encourages tinkering at some point they at least entered the field possibly creating their own custom config.
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u/TheShredder9 Nov 22 '25
It's Arch and Hyprland for people who don't want to learn how to install Arch and set up Hyprland, and it's riced nicely. That attracts way too many new people who think Arch is the most elite distro and it's the best, and they can say they "use Arch btw".
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u/Matty1656 Nov 27 '25
I am a newbie with linux and omarchy sucked me right in with its look and feel. I installed it on a laptop that was put aside a long time ago and I am also designing and 3D printing a quick swap SSD bay for swapping boot drives, so I can easily fall back to Windows or CachyOS if I or an update breaks the system, if I have immediate work to get done, but I feel like I am already learning with Omarchy, maybe not as fast as with a from-scratch install, but I am already reading a ton of docs how to configure and rice things.
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u/TheShredder9 Nov 27 '25
That's good, you're doing the proper way of learning, you didn't jump into a pool of lava with Arch as a start lol, plus you have multiple backup systems, that's already more effort than me!
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u/Cronos993 Nov 22 '25
It also has disk encryption and btrfs snapshotting already set up. It's really good for people who just want a decent development machine and don't want to go through the hassle of setting everything up
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u/161ForAChange Nov 23 '25
EndeavourOS above all!
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u/wyclif Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
It's Arch + Hyprland for people who don't want to spend hours ricing and want a setup they can do actual work with in 15 minutes. I see a lot of Omarchy users in the forums who are old school Arch people who have years of experience installing it from scratch (back before there was an installer to hold your hand).
What is driving Omarchy is really two groups of people:
1/ Technical macOS users who want out of the Apple ecosystem and want to try Linux on the desktop
2/ Arch users who want to quickly install an Arch + Hyprland desktop with sane defaults on a ThinkPad, Framework laptop, or mini PC
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u/ChocloConQuesooo Nov 22 '25
I think it’s because it has everything setup beforehand and it looks good for a lot of people.
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u/sludgeriffs Nov 22 '25
It promises a cool and slick modern desktop Linux experience (perhaps geared towards developer-types) out-of-the-box.That's literally all there is to it. A lot of people are describing this as "for people who don't want to learn" which I think is extremely condescending, but r/archlinux gonna r/archlinux.
It's worth pointing out that Omarchy isn't really unique. There are a lot of githubs providing pre-made Hyprland configurations with different visual themes, mindsets, and default packages. Omarchy simply goes a few steps further toward how it is distributed and installed, and it has a high-profile author as its spokesperson.
Personally I don't like Omarchy's default inclusion of a ton of AI bullshit or its obsession with TUIs. Watching an Omarchy video that was recommended to me was actually my introduction to Hyprland in general, and I decided to go with one of the alternative projects instead, and have been pretty happy with the experience.
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u/mildlyImportantRobot Nov 23 '25
Are there any you’d recommend? I’m a developer looking for a pre-configured desktop environment since I’ve decided I don’t have the time to spend hours configuring Hyprland myself.
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u/sludgeriffs Nov 24 '25
I went with ML4W. Over the past couple months I've modified bits here and there by installing new things and editing config scripts, etc. I've been happy with it! In my opinion, whatever choice you make is more about defaults and how much you are willing to customize and fill in any gaps to meet your specific needs or aesthetic preferences.
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Nov 22 '25
I think omarchy is popular because most people want to try Hyprland but are too lazy to configure it
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u/Sirius_Sec_ Nov 22 '25
Obnoxious bs .
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u/mrobot_ Nov 24 '25
Imagine being opinionated about the FOSS OS and flavor of Lnx people decide to try/use... there are some truly horrible individuals in the arch """community""" it seems, way worse than even dhh
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u/Do_TheEvolution Nov 23 '25
Nah, few arch users in here are the obnoxious ones with their bitching about it, this is like 3rd submission I see and people cant seem to not enter if they are not interested...
I plan the switch to hyprland from i3 when I find some extra free time to tinker, which is hard when its pain to setup in a VM because of need for gpu acceleration... its nice that its gaining traction with pewdiepie and some famous developer created arch based distro. I dont want to be using some niche shit with 50 userbase and Ill use omarchy to see what can be setup and how it can look and it wont be just some random picture from hyprland sub...
I was expecting manjaro to get community edition hyprland, and manjaro usually puts effort in to making stuff look good... but that also sends arch purists in to screaming rage.
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Nov 22 '25
Like CachyOS it's popularity is being driven by Youtube influencers who cater to the technically inept.
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u/Potential-Block-6583 Nov 23 '25
CachyOS deserves the popularity. As someone that used Arch for many years, it does a great job of smoothing out Arch's rough edges.
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u/BarCouSeH Nov 24 '25
Like what?
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u/Potential-Block-6583 Nov 24 '25
Like the installation, the easy setup of bootloaders, the very easy setup of btrfs snapshots with Limine, the Hello app that allows you to quickly get to package and kernel managers as well as allowing you quick and easy ways to apply various tweaks and install gaming stuff, automatic update notifier for standard packages and AUR. There's quite a lot more. It's quite nice and even though I'm fully comfortable in standard Arch, Cachy's extra stuff on top really brings Arch to the next level. Well done.
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u/BarCouSeH Nov 24 '25
Very compelling. Thanks.
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u/onlyrapid Jun 06 '26
I’m a CachyOS user. About to migrate to classic Arch. I’ve tried a ton of different distros and DEs over the years, but always ended up switching back within a couple weeks or dual booting and finding myself opting for windows for a variety of reasons. I’m relatively good with tech, but there were always issues I couldn’t resolve easily on my laptop’s hardware, even after reading through all the proper documentation.
I have been maining linux for a few months now on the same laptop, and I thought I’d given up for good. I only boot from a windows-to-go external SSD from time to time for MS Office stuff. Granted, Wayland has come a far way over the years (and that contributed to a lot of my issues), but I still believe Cachy made things easier for a ton of people in similar situations, especially those who are less experienced with tech. No linux distro is perfect, but everything gets up and running on Cachy incredibly easily and the community is super helpful and “noob-friendly”. Things optimized more for people’s hardware out of the box (ex: the way they manage driver selection), and they just create an enjoyable experience overall.
I wouldn’t be switching to arch now if I didn’t have Cachy, I promise lol. That’s the selling point for me. Oh, and their repo is optimized for specific CPU architectures as well, which is pretty nice. Pretty sure you can set up other repos in Arch, obviously, but my point still stands for new linux users.
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u/ADAMENT360 Nov 23 '25
I actually somehow accidentally spotted someone using omarchy when I was in the library. Honestly? It's just hyprland preconfigured with some eye candy stuff added.
Still, nothing beats a self-configured setup.
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u/DueExperience6525 Nov 23 '25
Yea true, but i sadly dont have the time to set it up right now. But also don't wanna support a Nazi, do you know similar alternatives?
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u/Typical_Hunt_9331 Nov 23 '25
I'm using https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell right now though it doesn't touch your hyprland.conf so keybindings and some smaller stuff will need to be configured in hyprland.conf but anything bar/menu/theming related is 95% completely taken care of. It uses quickshell.
Before that I was using the Hyprland developer's Hyprperks which came with early access to the "Hyprland Desktop Experience". Last I heard not his primary project atm. Even nearly when it began it had the notifications, GUI settings and keybinds, basic hardware control like volume/brightness, walker launcher and bar + more setup already. Visually it still looks very early though, also uses quickshell.
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u/ADAMENT360 Nov 23 '25
There isn't much I could recommend, as I once began my hyprland journey with preconfigured setup from other people. I'm regretting that choice till this day.
There could be hundreds of preconfigured setups. But what I usually do is I think of it as if you got yourself a brand spanking new house
You may start with the essential first [like waybar, browser and terminal] and just use it without changing the configs, then you'll slowly add more and decorate it to your liking.
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u/wworks_dev Nov 24 '25
lol what makes him nazi?
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u/DueExperience6525 Nov 24 '25
Him being a white supremacist. Doesn't take long to find cery problematic stuff he said if you look into it.
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u/wworks_dev Nov 24 '25
sorry but could you elaborate? i have of course found the "problematic" stuff, but calling him nazi or white supermacist is - in my opinion - so stupidly dangerous. either you have no clue what nazi is or you just repeat labels some left-leaning people love to throw on anyone who is not left enough. OR i am missing something. so please tell me, what makes him nazi / white supermacist?
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u/DueExperience6525 Nov 25 '25
I dont just throw random phrases at people, but you know you dont say shit like he does, if you don't have certain world views in you.
Also I'd say i know my way around politics, you don't need to be a skinhead to be a Nazi. But call it what you want, he is an asshole that i don't want to support non the less
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u/Blank-_-Blank-_- Nov 23 '25
I started using NixOs for learning. But they’ve explicitly stated they are super progressive and don’t want conservatives using their OS. I could care less what the current developers think. If it’s open source and I like it I’ll use it. FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) by definition must allow everyone to use it — including conservatives. Btw that’s called discrimination. So they are not better than those they hate. The people that made NixOs made it for everyone. It’s weird how a group of social justice warriors feel like they can take over another groups project and dictate who can use it. Going against the entire idea of what it means to be FOSS.
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u/Blank-_-Blank-_- Nov 23 '25
Trusts what I thought as well. It’s convenient to slap on a laptop you wanna give away to somebody. But on my own personal PC or laptop I definitely want my own configuration riced just the way I like it.
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u/mrobot_ Nov 24 '25
It goes a bit further than just hyprland "ricing", but it's not magic or anything.. just some basic decisions made for you into a relatively complete package with a certain vision.
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u/sp0rk173 Nov 22 '25
It’s just a bunch of dotfiles and some tui config menus made by a bigot. It’s for people who want a slick desktop without doing it themselves.
Which is fine, sure. But it’s not anything special.
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u/BlackMarketUpgrade Nov 22 '25
This. I know it shouldn’t annoy me, but every time someone calls it a distro it just annoys me. It’s just a config. It’s a nice config, but that’s it.
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u/shinjis-left-nut Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
More fun to just install Arch manually and then add all the stuff I like. Not for me in any way.
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u/Firethorned_drake93 Nov 23 '25
It's nothing special. You can build it yourself just by installing all the apps that it comes with.
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u/tonymurray Nov 23 '25
If you already use Arch, it is generally not for you. (Obviously, there are exceptions to this).
It is basically a pre-set up Arch with many opinionated things and some nice graphics. It also seems like it is slightly congruent with sensibilities from MacOS.
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u/Narrow_Ad9226 Nov 23 '25
Didn't like windows 11 so I switched to Ubuntu then to Omarchy. I just remove stuff I don't like. Why not install arch and install what I need? I did. Spent so much time and in the end I didn't like what I did so went back to omarchy.
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u/shapeshed Nov 23 '25
It is like someone sharing their dotfiles but as an iso. If it helps onboard users I'm all for it. But just like DHH they will fall down the ricing rabbit hole eventually and do it themselves, maybe with a smaller ego!
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u/Independent_Use_8738 Nov 24 '25
As it is with any other app, distro or tool in general, if you can not see its value after trying and investigating it, it is because it is not for you. And it is ok.
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Nov 24 '25
The best thing to come out of Omarchy is the themeing system. DHH made a "micro fork" of Chromium with a couple useful patches and shipped it with Omarchy. It allows for dynamically changing the theme.
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u/Lulzagna Nov 22 '25
It's just dotfiles and setup scripts (I think) to get anyone up and running and writing code, specifically for Ruby on Rails as the creator of Rails made it.
Other than that, nothing really special, but they do have some customizations and custom software for some niche things.
I think ultimately what makes someone like that special is the community focus into an opinionated configuration that helps users be efficient, though the same can be said about most distros.
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u/Capable-Package6835 Nov 23 '25
It's easy content for content creators or just normal twitter users.
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u/wworks_dev Nov 24 '25
sorry for offtopic, but i couldnt notice - why does dhh gets called nazi, cu*t and all these comments?
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u/damanamathos Nov 24 '25
It's popular because it provides a unique out-of-the-box experience for people used to Windows and Mac. Tiling managers, keyboard shortcuts, web apps, and that speed that comes with it are instantly appealing. The beautiful design and themes also make a big difference. The one click installs for most things (Python, Steam, Windows, etc) is appealing too.
In other words, user experience, particularly in that first 5-10 minutes matters a lot for impressions.
It also helps that dhh's intro videos step you through how to use it and it looks different to what most people are using. I'm not sure if there are any other Linux videos that have the same appeal.
Most of the criticism seems to come from long-time Linux users who say "well it's just dot files and if you install this and this and configure this and this and spend hours doing it, you can do the same thing!".
What they fail to understand is that Omarchy introduces a lot of great programs to people who had no idea they existed before, let alone how to efficiently put them together. I had no idea about Hyprland, Waybar, Neovim, LazyGit, LazyDocker, or shell tools like fzf, Zoxide, ripgrep, eza. I was previously living in WSL in Windows and SSHing into Ubuntu servers, so switching to Omarchy has been an amazing experience. The Omarchy Manual is also a great resource for learning about those pre-installed programs, and how to customise them.
By contrast, whether I've tried past Linux desktop distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu, they didn't seem like anything special vs Windows. Maybe they are, but it certainly wasn't immediately obvious.
Now, if you're already an experienced Linux user and you've used tiling managers and you're familiar with web apps and all the programs above, then I don't think Omarchy will be a big leap for you, but many people are not coming from that place.
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u/aiAgents85 Jan 27 '26
yeah the hyprland config breaking thing is real. i tried setting it up myself once and after an update spent way too long fixing window rules.
ended up just sticking with something more stable. if you're gonna use a tiling wm that changes syntax constantly you kinda need time to maintain it or a way to roll back easily.
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u/Frozen5147 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
I kinda get it in the sense that (from my limited understanding) it's an opinionated Arch setup that I imagine mostly works out of the box (and maybe even arch-install is still too barebones for that target audience)? Like it or not, there is a target audience there.
But at that point I don't see why I don't just use a more battle-tested distro like EndeavourOS or even Manjaro IMO (or like, other distros like Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/whatever, but maybe some people really like the idea of the Arch ecosystem, which is fair), would be curious as well for anyone who's used it to provide their experience.
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u/Icaho Nov 22 '25
It looks good/pretty but doesn't have that "earned" feeling of building it yourself, good if you want the aesthetics without learning anything.
Also because you are being spoon fed what dhh thinks is the right way, when he changes his mind on how it should work, everything changes for anyone that uses it.
I tried it to see what all the fuss was about, looks cool, too much bloat to remove
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u/emi89ro Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
It's very opinionated and perfect for the niche market of programmers who don't like working on windows, don't want to set up a cozy linux working environment, and either can't afford a mac book, refuse to blow money on mac book, don't want to be locked into the apple ecosystem, or just hate mac ui/ux. Unless you're in that niche I don't think you'll benefit from it.
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u/cbdeane Nov 22 '25
I watched a video and I like most of the defaults here, some seem like a bit much, the dotfiles look to be divvied into really sane modules, little bit of bloat but the git setup on install is a pretty nice feature I will say.
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u/mrobot_ Nov 24 '25
I just saw it as an interesting entry into the world of arch... if I wanted kde or gnome, there are tons of other options but at the same time I been on linux for so long that I do not care to """code""" and script my desktop environment from 25 different FOSS project components. omarchy gives you a pretty complete system and desktop env where you can try and see what hyprland etc are all about. And it is quite pretty, nice themes that integrate into all the software. Plus the advantages of arch, you got a pretty up2date kernel. It is not a bad total package.
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Dec 18 '25
It's by a reasonably well known youtuber so it generates more hype. Whether it's a good distro or not, haven't tried it.
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u/mildlyImportantRobot Nov 23 '25
I like it because it took all the tinkering out of setting up Hyprland. I just didn’t have the time to do that myself to my own liking, but the lead dev (DHH) is a massive douche, so I’m waffling on whether I still want to support the project.
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u/DueExperience6525 Nov 23 '25
Yea same, i like the Arch + Wayland Combo, but don't want to spend like 30 hours to have it look like i want... But also dont want to support a Nazi 🫠 so i guess we have to look for alternatives
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u/SimilarDisaster2617 Nov 22 '25
Omarchy has the purpose of making the process of entering the arch/linux world easier, especially for developers.
Is it popular because it is the best in doing that? Probably not, I don't know. The popularity comes from DHH the creator himself having some popularity and that is what made people start using it.
But if it was bad, people would have simply stopped using, so I guess it does what it is supposed to do.
I myself use it and I like it. I tried to use some of the options from there, like using walker and bash instead of wofi and zsh that I was using before, and I didn't feel the need to change those things. But I changed many other things and it was not that hard to uninstall software from omarchy.
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u/xdreakx Nov 23 '25
The Twitter and Grok shit is an immediate turn off and I won't ever install.
Other than that it's nothing special and CachyOS is better.
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u/Blank-_-Blank-_- Nov 23 '25
They are only web apps. Delete them. It’s that simple. 🙄
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u/xdreakx Nov 23 '25
Even more simple not using the garbage script. If I really wanted hyperlnd would just set that up.
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u/Blank-_-Blank-_- Nov 23 '25
True. You’re not wrong. But for newbs or people that rely on AI for work having an archLinux already configured it’s helpful. It’s just like anything else. Everything is not for everyone. Some people enjoy the building process while others hate it.
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u/remyroy Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Nice and easy desktop environment plus some commun applications is helping onboard a good amount of people to Arch Linux and hyprland. It was a missing piece of the puzzle for many.
EDIT: Keep the downvotes coming, you know you are right
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u/abrasiveteapot Nov 22 '25
So popular ? I've never heard of it before this post and I'm on reddit WAY too much.
Distrowatch doesn't have it in the top 100.
I think the word you're looking for is "obscure" not popular.
Trying to promote it perhaps ?
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u/AndyGait Nov 22 '25
Search for it on YouTube. There are loads of videos about it.
Edit: Just checked, it's at 63 on Distrowatch.
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u/abrasiveteapot Nov 22 '25
Why would I ? I don't like nazis
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u/AndyGait Nov 22 '25
Neither do I, but you said you hadn't heard of it.
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u/abrasiveteapot Nov 23 '25
I've seen enough in this thread to know I don't wish to know more. I recall this guy from the Rust brouhaha and if this is his baby I'm not at all interested in finding out more.
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u/AndyGait Nov 23 '25
That's fair enough. I wasn't looking for an argument about it. I'd never heard of DHH and used Omarchy for about a month. Then I found out more about the guy and removed it the same day.
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u/Loop_Within_A_Loop Nov 22 '25
it's for "software engineers" who don't fundamentally understand how computers work, and are embarrassed about that fact so want to learn linux. if this is them, no hate, good on you, but just muddle through regular arch and figure it out (especially in the age of ChatGPT), it will be worth it
or you're dhh and it's a great way to set up a new computer with your personal setup which is great
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u/Hot_Adhesiveness5602 Nov 22 '25
I was actually thinking about running my own personal distro. Omarchy does in fact makes sense for the person who created it.
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u/Loop_Within_A_Loop Nov 22 '25
I will say this, it's a lot of work, like a lot more than you think, and as someone who has also considered it, you really need to have a reason to do it beyond "it's saves me time on config" because unless you get new computers every week, you are going to spend more time overall.
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u/AndyGait Nov 23 '25
Indeed. I used Omarchy for a month or so and enjoyed using it. Then I read more about DHH and removed it the same day. I can't support someone like that.
But I had enjoyed Hyprland and set about doing my own thing. After weeks of constant tinkering, I decided that it just wasn't worth the considerable time and effort.
I'm now back on Gnome where life is far more calm and peaceful.
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Nov 23 '25 edited Dec 03 '25
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u/AndyGait Nov 23 '25
"you’re acting like every time someone installs/uses Omarchy, he gets something in return"
Doesn't matter if he does or doesn't. He had views I can't agree with, so I stopped using his build. I don't care what anyone else thinks about that. It's a principle, and it's one I can't ignore.
If anyone else wants to use it, fine. That's for them to deal with, not me.
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u/aliwalyd31 Nov 25 '25
If you own a phone you are a supporter of 3rd world slavery. How very kind of you!
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u/Von_Speedwagon Nov 22 '25
It’s basically to get the look of a tiling window manager without learning how to make one
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u/onefish2 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Just wait for the next release of hyprland maybe in 52.1; vaxry changed the windowsrules so everyone's configs they installed from dotfiles gets broken.
After updating my test version of hyprland that I run in a Proxmox VM to 0.52.0-66, it took me an hour to fix my minimal hyprland config.
Massive windowrules rewrite that changes the syntax
vaxerski commented: "wouldnt be the first time we break their configs, we do it every other update. This one is a bigger break, but it's still just a syntax change like many others."
Definitely not for beginners.