I feel like people that would want a standardised desktop experience and people that want to use Arch + Hyprland are two very distinct polar opposites.

Soooooo it's Arch with a bunch of shit you don't need. I mean that's it? nothing improved? performance tweaks? custom kernel? it's just arch with hyprland and I think a custom menu purely for styling? oh and the hyprland config opens Twitter for you too with a keybind...wow.

Fuck DHH

Don't promote fascist bullshit: https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html.

This issue represents all you need to know about omarchy.
There is also this:

DHH proudly advertises that the main branch of their repository is called master instead of main, to own the libs or something.

Omarchy is also backed by Cloudflare.

Opinion: Having some highly opinionated, highly polished distros is an excellent gateway for people to jump aboard. Not everything will be how you want it, sure. But that’s how things are on Windows & MacOS right now.

Immutable distros also help here, preventing goombas like myself from bricking my OS, getting fed up and going back to MS.

Once you learn the basics with guard rails, you can branch out and fix the issues you really care about.

I'm running arch with kde on my main pc. Now omarchy on my laptop. Showed it at work and got 1 colleague thats running omarchy now on his laptop and he likes it.

I think its nice to have everything working and not setup hyprland from scratch, just thinker with what is there for beginners.

It uses Hyprland as its window manager, which is a far superior windows manager than Microsoft Windows

lmao

Holy shit new fireship vid without AI slop