Omarchy

“after installing a number of times I have not had issues except for the first time I installed on mac hardware”

“Omarchy offers some great convention out of the box and is being worked on by a passionate group of people.”

“If the improvement rate of Omarchy for Linux desktop experience can be a barometer for anything, I'm extremely optimistic.”

“Omarchy shows how it's possible to realize a very clear, distinct vision of how desktop computing should be.”

“If something quacks like a duck, it's a duck. That fund is, for all intents and purposes, a right wing influence campaign.”

“a company decides to fund millions of dollars to an ideologically motivated right wing influence campaign”

“All signs point to these donations being strictly ideologically motivated, and not because of the alleged merits Omarchy totes.”

“agents that find the drivers for me or even build them on the fly if they're missing, etc., is a game changer.”

“Omarchy is worth it for me because someone else worked on this, passed it on for free and it just worked.”

“They host their own packaging servers, which they keep intentionally a month behind Arch's to catch broken packages.”

“Omarchy is created for a specific audience i.e tech enthusiast and people who are just getting into Linux will surely find it amazing.”

“There are no options. You boot from iso, enter your name and press enter. After a minute you have a working system.”

“it's a beautiful concept of how to use your computer. And it works, if you are open to relearning just a bit.”

“UI is crucial. If people want something easy to use out of the box without spending days to configuring it”

“the best Linux desktop experience I've had without having to overly waste my time configuring things”

“So far its the best Linux Desktop experience I've had, and I hardly have to configure anything out of the box, most of it just works.”

“Which tells me that they don't really take security seriously because everyone knows exposing the docker socket is dangerous.”

“It also looks like a great way for my kids to get into computers as there's an agent harness ready to help them”

“how he does not look at the code anymore. The guy built solid reputation with his prev contributions but now falling to AI slop.”

“A bare arch+hyprland install really feels terrible to use and has a much larger barrier to entry than Omarchy.”

“Don't use vibecoded distros. It doesn't matter whether they fix this or that, or whether you care about a particular vuln.”

“IF the underlying rationale is that people can use Linux in an extremely simplified manner, then this is a good thing.”

“There is a reason why some people have decided to give this distribution $8m, and not another distribution. That reason is political alignment.”

“The install is uncomplicated, no selecting from five legacy bootloaders, choosing versions or selecting a window manager.”

“two examples in the article have been swiftly addressed, ignoring that there is a whole dedicated security team”

“This project is taking more of a move fast and break things methodology where shipping the vibe coded feature as fast as possible is the priority.”

“the development practices which lead to the quantity, seriousness and banality of their security issues is the part which needs fixing”

“snarky "umm, I'm confused...?" quote-tweets for certain Omarchy posts about how Omarchy is just quickshell hyprland rice”

“It looks beautiful, which is not something I could have said in the last 20 years of looking at Linux UIs.”

“Because it's easier and faster, you don't have to curl | sudo, you don't need to fiddle manually with networking”

“It ships a custom theme builder Aether, Quickshell to build desktop ui elements, a new launcher and its own cli.”

“it seems like he has built a cool config and a streamlined setup, but why not just steal the dot configs that you like?”

“it does not look like the people doing it have a strong grip of what is usually considered important in "traditional distribution"”

“You know what is not good? when you download a distro that only has open source software and your codecs doesn't work”

“Omarchy really has excellent defaults and generally development is always moving in the right direction.”

“Omarchy was useful to me in demonstrating how to compose pieces into a useful whole in a relatively minimalist distribution like Arch.”

“The out of box experience with Omarchy is highly functional, aesthetically pleasing and challenges users to lean more on keyboard shortcuts”

“the idea of somebody trying all the tons of available bits of desktop Linux and assembling their favorites is very compelling”

“A pretty and usable hyprland setup out of the box, with great theming and configuration system/organization”

“writing decent documentation for how it all works in Omarchy specifically, and having the whole thing install in minutes”