Omarchy
Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland tiling window manager. It ships with what a modern software developer would need to be productive immediately, including Neovim, Spotify, Chromium, Typora, Alacritty, LibreOffice and Zoom.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
Features
- Dark Mode
- Rolling Release
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Support for Hotkeys
Omarchy News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Omarchy
Omarchy 4 launches unified Quickshell with modular plugins and all-in-one UXOmarchy v4 (Quattro) reimagines the desktop experience with Quickshell, a unified shell process com...
Recent activities
rhY added Omarchy as alternative to Spaced Linux
POX added Omarchy as alternative to Shadowfetch Linux- Kolmogorov reviewed Omarchy
Daily driving it now for a couple of months on my main machine and it works great (even with Nvidia GPU). Some learning curve but hyprland is just amazing and the preconfigured setup by DHH is quite ergonomic and enables a soft start without too much frustration.
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Omarchy presents itself as FOSS software, yet it ships with a range of proprietary apps by default, which undermines the principles many associate with FOSS.
Furthermore, the author’s public statements may be an ethical concern for some users.
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What is Omarchy?
Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland tiling window manager. It ships with what a modern software developer would need to be productive immediately, including Neovim, Spotify, Chromium, Typora, Alacritty, LibreOffice and Zoom. The distribution boots into a text-mode system installer that downloads the latest packages from the Arch Linux repositories during installation to build a complete Hyprland desktop.
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Omarchy information
Developed by
David Heinemeier Hansson Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3Alternatives
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- English
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Comments and Reviews
Great Arch config for technical Linux newbs. Geared towards web developers.
Omarchy presents itself as FOSS software, yet it ships with a range of proprietary apps by default, which undermines the principles many associate with FOSS.
Furthermore, the author’s public statements may be an ethical concern for some users.
Daily driving it now for a couple of months on my main machine and it works great (even with Nvidia GPU). Some learning curve but hyprland is just amazing and the preconfigured setup by DHH is quite ergonomic and enables a soft start without too much frustration.