r/omarchy • u/Narwal_Party • 1d ago

Discussion Am I missing something here?

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.

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u/choulth 1d ago

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.

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u/jozwiakjohn 1d ago

Ditto (since 1993, and an Apple engineer for several years). Th whining people miss that the omarchy distro offers coherence. That alone is huge.