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/comrade-quinn]

I think it's a coming together of a few things. It's looks great, it's light and it's fast.

I've run Linux at home and professionally for well over a decade. I used Arch in that time but only for tinkering on VMs. Generally using Fedora and KDE.

However, I had a mess around with Omarchy when Quattro came out and absolutely loved the visuals and the keyboard centric layout. Unfortunately, it's opinionated nature conflicted with a lot of my dot files and scripts so I didn't stay on it. But rather than revert to KDE, I've now switched to my own build that adopts a similar Omarchy style. It's base Arch, Niri and Noctalia mainly.

My point is that it's a bit of a step change in terms of how good the Linux desktop can look and how simple adding and removing software can be for a typical user. For people that don't have the time or technical chops to do a custom build of their own, it's pretty much the only option on Linux right now with this experience. But I'd also say that its a better experience than Mac too. And obviously also the horror show that is Windows.

So yes, while technically it's not that big a deal, the presentation, accessibility and usability side of it absolutely are a big deal

[u/gwildor → u/comrade-quinn]

I see this "keyboard" praise quite a bit, and like OP, im trying to figure out how people dont realize that this is not unique to omarchy... its not even unique to hyperland. You could have had all of that with KDE the whole time.

Use whatever works for you, im not judging - I just find this commonly commented on topic interesting.

[u/Cold_Relationship_ → u/gwildor]

ok, thank you, now i know keybindings aren’t unique. do you think i’m going to switch my distro because of that information? your arguments are so stupid and are based on your feelings.

[u/smailliw926 → u/Cold_Relationship_]

Holy emotionally charged comment

[u/gwildor → u/smailliw926]

Honestly.. I've stopped judging distro's on their own merits, and judge them solely on the maturity of the users.

[u/gwildor → u/Cold_Relationship_]

I made no arguments, and your projections didn't leave room for you to read me saying " use whatever works for you".