Omarchy is so good, it’s the first time I’ve had a flexible, hackable Linux-based FOSS (mostly… after a little debloating, it’s basically FOSS) OS that is also actually “an OS”!
I mean, someone has built it for me to use for my tasks, in a particular and very powerful way, with LLMs and so on. Someone tested it, and other people are using the same base, finding bugs and enhancing the product.
And it’s finally a GOOD OS (not like Ubuntu; Ubuntu had the same propositions as Omarchy, but it’s just bad. The times were not mature).
In 20 minutes, I installed it; in 1 hour, I learned the keybindings and tweaked the OS a bit. Then I was ready to work. READY.
I used Arch, Gentoo, and so on, and they always required infinite hours before I was ready. I mean, I had my desktop, minimal and optimized how I like it… but then? Every time a new task arose, I would be rebuilding, rethinking, and re-optimizing the OS; basically, 90% of the work was babysitting the OS, and the other 10% was actual work.
I loved it. I learned a lot about system administration by babysitting my Arch/Gentoo systems, but now I’m done with that.
Also, I see how only the abstract stuff I learned is still actually useful for understanding computers; all the practical configuration/programming things are not useful anymore. Agents are real; the best way to customize/program stuff is to talk in natural language.
So Omarchy is really something new. It is finally Linux desktop at its maximum;
but it’s also a product, an OS, something built to be used, to get stuff done.
All the other attempts to do that were poor. Now there is the good taste of DHH, the momentum he built with his energy, the money, and the perfect storm.
The Linux desktop is mature (are we on Wayland + PipeWire yet!?...), agentic AI is mature, the FOSS ecosystem is mature, and the internet is mature enough for that.
Omarchy is the operating system I use; it gives me what Windows and Mac (but also Linux distros) can’t give me.
I hope DHH and the company don’t fuck it all up, because it is really a great shot at revolutionizing, in a good way, how humans interact with computers.
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