The minute I found out this was created by DHH and came preloaded with a ChatGPT link I knew it would be hot garbage. Give me an opinionated distro from someone who has a clue like John Carmack and I'll be interested, not the madman who dreamed up Ruby on Rails (or really anything by anyone connected in any way to a train wreck like Ruby). It doesn't surprise me in the least to find out Omarchy is a pile of fragile kludges and poorly thought out decisions.

TL;DR: It's shit. It shouldn't even be considered a distro.

Also, I think the recommendation of Manjaro is outdated. It used to be good maybe 5 years ago. Nowadays, it's better to try EndeavourOS or CachyOS.

I love the icing on the cake

BTW: A quick shout out to your favorite tech influencer, who probably has at least one video reviewing the Omarchy project without mentioning anything along these lines. It is unfortunate that these influential people barely scratch the surface on a topic like this, and it is even more saddening that recording a 30 minute video of someone clicking around on a UI seemingly counts as a legitimate “review” these days. The primary focus for many of these people is seemingly on pumping out content and generating hype for views and attention rather than providing a thoughtful, thorough analysis.

A big thanks goes to the author. I really like the post. At least 99% of it, I think sudo is ok, docker is ok as well, I wouldn't use it but we are all free to choose our tools.

The author spared absolutely no punches, god damn!
Honestly, refreshing. Now I only need everyone who's breathlessly advertising that pile of dotfiles to actually read this.

What I discovered upon closer inspection, however, is that Omarchy’s firewall doesn’t actually run, despite its pre-configured ruleset.

lol, oops

Whole point of this "distro" is that it comes with bloat preinstalled?

A few exmples:

ChatGPT, Discord, Docker, Figma, GitHub, Google Contacts, Google Messages, Google Photos, HEY, Kdenlive, OBS Studio, Obsidian, Signal, Spotify, Typora, WhatsApp, X, YouTube, Zoom???

Wtf.... Why

Tldr but the article's author seems to not know / mention Omarchy is developed by a raging racist?

I'm very happy that the people in this thread are very reasonable. It's refreshing. You guys rock🤟

This is a great write up and analysis. It does make me wonder why there are big names associating themselves with this when it seems to really be a big mess under all the cool colors not to say anything of the garbage that comes out of the developer himself.

But maybe it all speaks to a way to improve upon and move past Omarchy. There is clearly a group of people that want to use or at least try Arch and Linux in general, but don’t really know how. Providing a highly configured Arch setup, that looks cool, actually delivers on security, that is created by people that understand systems, that still allows for the freedom of choice that Linux provides, and that aren’t developed by a scumbag could be a big hit.

I'm not clicking on a link that looks like someone typed it in by putting their head on the keyboard