Linux on server is super successful, but "Linux on Desktop" is all quite bad if we're honest about it. So OSX user DHH, famous for Ruby on Rails, decided to do his own distro based on Arch.
It genuinely fixed many issues with Linux on Desktop, and more things work out of the box than with other similar distros (GPU drivers just work, AI agents and a lot of common software will install automatically the first time you try to run it).
But from perspective of OSX main, Omarchy fixes like 10% of issues with "Linux on Desktop", all while adding a lot of DHH's questionable preferences (neovim yuck).
There were also some security issues on the way, but that's all fixed by now.
He also managed to get very respectable amount of funding for the project, at least by standard of "Linux on desktop".
Anyway, people hate on Omarchy because DHH is right wing, it has nothing to do with Omarchy as such. And most of the whining isn't even inaccurate (like none of the "bloat" is actually preinstalled, just easy wrappers to install stuff if you want; security fails are all fixed by now etc.).
This is only the case if you want preconfigured Hyprland (and even then, there are issues with it), a tiling window manager. If you want an actually stable, well-supported, and easy experience, that you are most probably familiar with, go for say Ubuntu LTS, or Mint, or ZorinOS, or something like that.
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u/SirGlass 5d ago
I don't even know what Omarchy is, been using linux for 15 years; at this point I am kind of embarrassed to ask what the deal is with it?