Reading up on Arch Linux

I've been using Omarchy for a week, and here's my full honest review. It's an OS that made me excited about computers again. I was planning to play with it for only a couple of hours. But I find myself spending more and more time using it. It's so pleasant to use that I don't want to go back. Omarchy is a chef's special. And you can say that all the ingredients, like Arch, Hyprland, OpenCode, etc., existed long before, so you could always make it for yourself (not really true; people have built some things specifically for Omarchy from scratch). But someone spending so much time and resources to package everything nicely makes a big difference. The fact that a fully working Omarchy setup is just a couple of minutes away makes a big difference. I can literally install it while I'm brewing my coffee and simply start using it immediately. It just works ™️ And then I can spend all the time in the world tinkering with it because it's such a nice experience. You can notice that Omarchy is built by a person who cares about a product. It's not just tech supremacism. Every minor detail matters, and every papercut is taken seriously. As it should be. Even an innocent tiny thing like "pressing an arrow or backspace key moves the cursor a little bit faster" makes a big difference for me. I do feel like the computer matches my speed of thinking and working. Omarchy is not perfect. I had a minor issue with copy/paste keybindings with multiple language layouts (there's an open PR to address that already, and my agent fixed it for me locally). Terminal and browser windows take several noticeable seconds to start on my old laptop in a power-saving mode. My agent broke my theme once when I was trying to be too experimental with it (but then it easily reverted it to a working state). But honestly, this is nothing compared to how bad Windows and macOS can be in areas that matter. Omarchy will get better. Substantial resources are put into it, and I trust the @DHH vision to make it even better. My biggest genie wish for now is having a better file browser, e.g. a TUI version of Total Commander or Far Manager style. But I've already seen someone working on a similar thing, so I have high hopes. I just can't believe my oldest and least powerful laptop in my home is the machine I'm the most excited to use.

@ChShersh

@jorgemanru @OmarchyLinux Same journey I had. https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/

@sspaeti