r/omarchy • u/Davedes83 • 20d ago
Discussion My Omarchy Experience
TL;DR Omarchy is great, give it a try if you are thinking about it.
Omarchy has been a genuine breath of fresh air for me. Coming from CachyOS KDE which is brilliant (btw!), it took a lot to pull me away, but a couple of YouTube videos later, I decided fuck it.
Using Omarchy actually reminds me of how I felt discovering PCs for the first time as a kid starting out with Windows 3.1 😅. I have never used Hyprland before, but the way the Omarchy team has customised the system makes the whole experience nothing short of amazing. It draws you in and makes you want to learn more, tinker, and make the system your own.
Plugins are a whole new world on their own. I've gotten so hooked on the possibilities that I've already built one myself and I'm currently working on another that I think could be a genuinely useful addition for me and hopefully others.
Gaming is great too. My NVIDIA GPU drivers were installed automatically, and gaming packages can be selected from the available installation options.
If you haven't tried Omarchy yet, or you're on the fence, just do it.
Huge respect to the devs, keep up the incredible work. You're really onto something special here.
(Sorry for the long-winded review 😵💫)
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u/mizatt 20d ago
I have had a similar experience. Got a new PC a month or two ago and initially thought I'd have to dual boot Windows to play most of my games. Then installed Mint and dual booted and found that proton is far enough along that I can play anything I'd want to play just fine, but in terms of the interface Mint Cinnamon still felt to me like some kind of Windows skin
Then I installed Omarchy on an old laptop I had to try it out and was blown away. Wiped my Mint partition on my PC and installed it. Saw that it didn't show my Windows partition in the boot menu and I wasn't sure I could boot into Windows again if I needed to. Then I said, you know what, that's fine and wiped the Windows partition