Omarchy is an omakase Linux distribution based on
Arch, the tiling window manager
Hyprland, and the desktop construction-kit
Quickshell. It ships with everything a modern,
savvy computer user needs to be productive immediately. From Neovim (btw) to Chromium,
Obsidian to LibreOffice, and Kdenlive to OBS Studio. Hell, even a retro Winamp-style
music player is there!
This isn’t just a grab bag of preinstalled packages, though. It’s a complete
system designed with both aesthetics and productivity in mind. Because a
beautiful system is a motivating system, and
productivity has always been downstream from motivation. There’s zero bloat here:
just everything I use.
It’s true that developing an eye for the beauty of a TUI-heavy, theme-delighted,
tiling-window-managed system like Omarchy can be an acquired taste. But that’s why
you’re here, isn’t it? To experience something a little outside of your
comfort zone? To embark on a little bit of an adventure into a new way of working with
computers? I hope so.
Omarchy isn’t like Windows and it’s not like macOS either. It’s not
trying to be as familiar as possible. It’s trying to be beautiful and
better. Embrace the Linux-ness of it all. Manually editing some config
files, sure. Heavy on the terminal, definitely.
Let’s get started with the basics.
