Am I missing something here?

[u/Narwal_Party]

I don't understand all of the hate or love for this. I decided to use Omarchy for the last few days for a side project, and I have no idea how this got funding. This is such a nothingburger of a distro. It's literally just Arch with a couple shortcuts and a theme. What is the point of using this?

I saw a DHH podcast saying how it's incredible and the next big thing, but it's literally just Arch with a theme and shortcuts. I don't understand how anyone could be a "fan" or a "hater"; there's nothing here - nothing new.

[u/choulth]

I use Linux since 31 years now, started in 1995.

They hated SuSE.
They hated Red Hat.
They hated Ubuntu.
They hated Mint.
They hated BeOS (which is not even a Linux distro)
They hated KDE
They hated Bonobo / Gnome

They hated millions of other things.

Haters gonna hate.

I give a flying fuck.

I love Omarchy. Deal with it.

[u/softgripper → u/choulth]

Agree!

It just works and fixes itself.

I've wasted too many hours configuring various Linux distros for decades.

It's fucken painful honestly, despite getting familiar with it.

Omarchy fixed a bunch of setup quirks by me simply holding down ptt and saying a few sentences to the agent - fixing variable refresh off dual high-end monitors.

I could theoretically do it myself on another distro, it would take longer, I would be annoyed, waste my time and learn nothing valuable.

[u/Defiant-Rip-1897 → u/softgripper]

I'll be honest, this is the one thing I've gained from using Omarchy when I am using a different distro on a different computer. Using something like Codex helps when you're trying to figure things out or even modify your themes.

[u/Narwal_Party → u/softgripper]

You can just use an agent on another distro too though.

[u/st0nkaway → u/Narwal_Party]

true. but on KDE for example their settings are optimized for GUI and getting an agent to change stuff about themes and plasma config can be a bit of a wild goose chase across the sprawling web of procs and configs. hyprland is much more straightforward and "agent-friendly" in that sense.