Omarchy

Reader supplied reviews for Omarchy Average rating 8.6 from 36 review(s) What are your thoughts on Omarchy? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.3.03.2.3 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.2.3 Rating: 3 Date: 2026-01-26 Votes: 1 Omarchy is essentially arch pre-riced with hyprland, and one thats quite poorly done at that. It has a bunch of bloatware and AI garbage included which explains the absurd 7 GB ISO file. the binds that they decided on Omarchy are also really confusing for existing users and yes It could be configured In the files but im assuming the user base catered to this distro is not very familiar on how to do. So In conclusion, despite on it being a very beginner friendly hyprland rice, it is a much better idea for someone to make their own hyprland rice catered to their own needs using a base Arch installation Instead even if It may take longer or more effort Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.3.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-16 Votes: 1 Omarchy is beautiful, yet has a good selection of applications installed and is easy to configure (if you are OK editing text-based configuration files) and it is easy to install or remove software with pacman or yay. After a bit of testing on a new laptop, I've decided to use Omarchy as my daily driver. I'm still using Debian on my tower-based workstation where I need a stable environment -- mainly for running longer and more demanding computational analyses. I am a University professor and use my computer for writing papers (LaTeX, Quarto, typst, Zotero), developing software (R, Python, etc.), teaching (Rstudio, Jupyter, Quarto, Beamer, Sage Math, OBS) and, of course, communication (Office 365, Zoom). After using a Mac as my main system for 22 years it feels great to return to Linux as a desktop system and I am moving most of my workflow to NeoVim instead of various specific tools (Rstudio, Positron, TeXShop) and more general tools (VS Code). Here are some personal pros and cons of Omarchy based on a few weeks of using it as my main syste: Pros * The user interface is beautiful * The most distraction free setup I have experienced * Smooth keyboard-based interaction and navigation (once you have learned the basics) * Most packages are available from Omarchy (Arch) or AUR * The system can easily be customized Cons * Steep learning curve * Some trouble connecting to eduroam (due to 802.1x issues) * Some issues had to be solved when running Cisco Secure Client * Now I want to run hyprland on my Debian system as well Overall an amazing distro! While it may not be for everyone, I think a lot of aesthetically sensitive and technically proficient users will be very happy with it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.2.3 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-01-11 Votes: 0 Very well put together OOTB Arch+Hyprland based distribution. Great styling and a decent (although a bit bloated) selection of preinstalled packages. It has a few cons however that can be mitigated: -- /home has to be on btrfs partition or the system will not update (partitioning during installation only allows btrfs but if you move /home to a different volume and partition it to ext4 the system will not be able to update) -- no USB drive automounter installed by default - so you need to manually install and configure udisks2 and udiskie Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 36 reader reviews of Omarchy...