It's also created by a racist, bigoted piece of shit
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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If you use omarchy, you have bad taste.
What does 'arch-based' mean? Isn't it just arch with some scripts with aliases and some tools preinstalled?
Yes, "some" scripts. Omarchy goes from nothing to fully installed faster than you can read the install instructions for arch. It took me 20 minutes from visiting the website to having a completed install. It's the easiest and fastest linux install I've seen.
Give it a try. It doesn't support dual boot, so have a free drive available.
I just managed to find a post about it, you should probably read it before you go any deeper using omarchy: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Your link doesn't work for me.
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.
No I don't think I will. At first it looked cool, I don't really care about DHH or whatever his agenda is, but I read about omarchy and what it was, and it did not look serious to me to install it and trust it.
Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?
I comes preconfigured with excellent noob friendly documentation.
It also installs in like 10 minutes.
Good marketing or influencers perhaps? I'm not sure but I've been wondering myself.
Plus it comes with software with steep learning curve (Neovim, Hyprland, etc.), that is also popular among the "gatekeeper" types.
It comes with Lazyvim installed, the friendliest way to approach vi for noobs. The hyprland configuration is very polished as well.
It's an anti-gatekeeper distro. Using difficult to use software, but packaging them in a way a noob can actually it. The included help and documentation is remarkeably good.