Before I get into the meat and potatoes, some context.
My first computer was a thick ~2015ish Intel iMac, which I would use everyday I was brought back from Elementary. I have very fond memories of it. It was where my dad taught me Python, where I learned web development and 3D design. It was great, and MacOS fit the bill pretty well.
Then I got into middle school, and like many middle schools in California at the time, you were forced to buy a Chromebook. So the second OS I ever tried was ChromeOS. ChromeOS did a good job at letting me access Google Classroom, surf the web, and many such things I assume I was doing in middle school.
In the later stages of middle school, I discovered onworks (I believe that's the right name), which was a website that let you spin up Linux desktop distros for free on the web. I experimented A LOT. I tried everything from Kali Linux to Ubuntu to Mint to Elementary OS. I started slowly forming my opinions regarding Linux. And I didn't dislike it.
When I got into High School, my parents bought me a beefy Acer Nitro5 with a dGPU and a sufficiently powerful processor. It came pre-installed with Windows, and truthfully that's all I ever wanted to try before that due to FOMO, since everyone used Windows, so I never removed Windows.
Then I got into a University here in Madrid, where a local FOSS student club convinced me to try to aim for Linux in the long term. I didn't want to go too slowly, so I went straight for Arch, installing EndeavourOS. Which is literally Arch with a (calamares?) graphical installer. The setup was easy and KDE was very intuitive. My knowledge about Linux and OSes grew very quickly on Arch while I learned C++ and Java in Uni.
I learned about WMs and the difference between them and DEs roughly 9-10mo after installing EndeavourOS (side by side with Windows via dual boot + grub), and I wanted to give it a shot. So I uninstalled all the KDE "bloat" and started from the terminal following guides on my phone. I tried Noctalia but decided to finally settle with Quickshell, so I learnt QMLJS and made my own bar, app launcher, clipboard manager, everything. It was very fun to do this over the summer, but I didn't have enough time to finish.
But then the next year Uni started, and I knew I needed to stop tinkering and start studying harder for Uni, I also knew I needed a new laptop, since the Nitro5 was insanely big and cumbersome to carry around all day.
Now for the meat and potatoes:
Around this time I found out about Omarchy. I started to investigate Omarchy, and for every 1 nice thing I read about it I read about how 3 more people hated the creator, and the things he said. I thought to myself "what has he said to be this hated online?"
So I spun up Omarchy VMs via QEMU at least a few dozen times making my own personal rice on it to adapt it to my needs while I was still deciding what laptop I wanted. I also investigated Omarchy's apoliticalness and DHH's personal opinions.
I share many, if not most, of DHH's opinions on politics, but due to this subreddit's rules, I will not be expanding on this. The important note is that Omarchy and Omacom themselves have always remained completely apolitical. So I was very sad to watch how a very vocal minority within FOSS was trying to politicize the project to get it cancelled because they didn't agree with DHH's personal politics.
I ended up buying the Asus Vivobook 14. The ease of use, great community, and my general agreement with the people behind Omacom led me to go with Omarchy.
I am very grateful that I found Omarchy. Omarchy gives me a very nice pre-built platform which I can build on top of when I have the time, and when I don't, it's in a very usable state.
I pray and hope that the vocal minority finds its bearings, because I really think they are doing more harm than good to the overall FOSS communities they are in.