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Most critics miss what makes omarchy special and innovative.

I've spent the last two weeks trying out various distros and desktop environments. Omarchy was outstanding in several ways. It was the fastest to install, despite having a large ISO size for starters. Hardware support was pretty good for me as well. It automatically installed the right drivers and firmware for my wifi chipset. Many distros don't do that. I usually need to ad an extra repository and install stuff. I have spent more time figuring out how to get my wifi running on fedora, than Omarchy took to install.

The easy to use distros give you a DE like Gnome or KDE plus a kitchensink of mediocre and toy applications. The other end is more difficult distros like Endeauvor or CachyOS, that give you a bare bones install plus a wiki. In both cases, I end up installing, researching and configuring a bunch. Omarchy is neither. The configuration is unusual, but extremely well presented. The handbook was more useful and concise than any other distro I tried. It doesn't treat the user like an idiot by providing them with a toy gnome-editor, but a full install of neovim + lazyvim. No easy GUI editor is installed. Omarchy challenged me to learn vim, but at the same time gave me the most supporting setup to get started. I have installed lazyvim before and it involves a lot of steps and is time consuming. Omarchy is tailored towards keyboard focused used, but presents it in way that allows a user to learn it. The shortcut overlay is searchable and you can execute commands directly from it.

Sure you can setup something similar yourself, if you spend hours and hours researching, installing, and configuring packages and writing scripts. Likely you end up with something not half as nice.

Omarchy felt the most interesting and novel to use of all the distros I tried. Another desktop environment and distro I liked a lot is Dank Linux with scrolling window manager niri and a nicely configured shell.