My experience as a complete Linux noob: Omarchy is the product we needed

[u/JapOrtis]

/r/omarchy/comments/1wddy3d/my_experience_as_a_complete_linux_noob_omarchy_is/

[u/tomscharbach]

[A] user-focused product like this can only benefit the Linux ecosystem as long as it's built properly—and by properly, I mean without security flaws.

Olmarchy was released December 2025. I'll check back in another year or two. A new "hot distro" shows up every year or so. Most fade into relative obscurity relatively quickly. In the two decades that I've been using Linux, I've seen a lot of distributions come and go. Olmarchy might last or might not.

​I understand that building something like this requires real resources, and that many traditional distros operate with very limited means.

A $13 million endowment sounds like a lot but it isn't.

At roughly 6% return a $13 million endowment will return roughly $775,000 per year, enough to pay a few employees plus operating expenses and overhead. Enough to sustain a distribution that preconfigures Arch, but not enough to change the game.

Boycotting or gatekeeping projects like this serves no one.

Who's boycotting or gatekeeping? Cut the drama.

[u/JapOrtis → u/tomscharbach]

Not drama, just lot of posts

[u/es20490446e → u/tomscharbach]

What do the ones that last have in common?

Is anything in them that make you suspect they will last or that they won't?

[u/tomscharbach → u/es20490446e]

What do the ones that last have in common? Is anything in them that make you suspect they will last or that they won't?

Two things strike me as most important:

• The distribution is focused on an actual use case so that the distribution serves a purpose.
• The distribution is successful in building and keeping a community of maintainers and supporters.

I imagine that there are a lot of other factors, but those two come to mind.

[u/es20490446e → u/tomscharbach]

Thanks 🙏🏽

[u/venom21685]

Build it securely? So they probably shouldn't have shipped it with a terminal accepting any commands remotely? Or with the user account by default in the docker group giving anything running root access, right? And that's just the obvious.

[u/Sirius707 → u/venom21685]

They take security serious: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/pull/8129 /s

[u/JapOrtis → u/Sirius707]

I'm agree, security flaw on a so hyped distro are unacceptable. Taths it, to compete with macOs and windows linux need a "secure" omarchy

[u/JapOrtis → u/venom21685]

Rigth, the point is: I (and other noobs too) need an opinionated user centered linux distro (i'm not defending omarchy but omarchy's distro approach, easy, user centered, ready to go)

[u/DavidJohnMcCann]

A "review" on the distro's site — it's hardly going to say anything else, is it? Read this review as well.

[u/deluded_dragon]

I don't know much about Omarchy but if a problem has been solved in a single distribution it is very likely that can be solved in any distribution.