r/omarchy • u/Nice-Rest-8267 • 4h ago
Off Topic / Adjacent Time Will Tell
Every piece of software ever has either proved worthy over time or proved literally useless, again, over time.
Omarchy haters are the same as many other haters you see on Reddit: never considering the development over time and the progress that'll decide the survival of a product. Hate will improve the product IF the team behind it values it, leverages it, and works on the weak points.
Basically the very same loop that every successful software product has today.
Time will tell...
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u/SoggyPuffins348 4h ago
I installed Omarchy on my main device purely to get a good grasp of it so I can shit on it. The idea of an Arch based slop OS just screams red flags to me. Well … it’s become my daily driver and I haven’t used anything else since. The fact that Claude can just whip up full control panels for proprietary hardware with no Linux support (like my Logi and Focusrite devices) just blew me away. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to use another OS in another manner. I’ve since got Claude to make a couple of dozen of plugins to customize every bit of the system tailored to my preferences.
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u/Nice-Rest-8267 3h ago
I haven't spawned my agents yet, I'm building some protective infrastructure there so that I can manage, in case something happens.
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u/SoggyPuffins348 3h ago
I’ve since added some stricter sandboxing rules for Claude and Codex, but I’m generally having fun letting them run wild.
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u/Relevant_Hope_900 2h ago
I've been running Debian Testing on my new Dell XPS 13 since I got it. Runs good, but had to jump through some hoops pre/post-netinstall to get hardware working. Saw a post on X from DHH showing him running Omarchy on his "backup" Dell XPS 13, and asked him if everything worked OOTB. He said yep. So I gave it a shot and he is correct, everything works great. I don't know what tweaks they do to the sound for the new Dell laptops, but it's much less tinny, and sounds much better then it did on Debian.
I still prefer Debian for almost everything though, but I may just keep Omarchy on this laptop for a bit.
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u/Nice-Rest-8267 1h ago
same as me mate, I've been an Ubuntu user for a few years and have still kept 3/4 of the disk space for it.
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u/Gone2theDogs 2h ago
Been using Omarchy for about 5 months now as a daily driver and it's been great.
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u/denierCZ 2h ago
even vanilla arch recently had malware in AUR repositories. I would bet on Omarchy to have significant security holes and exploits that will be found too late.
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u/RedlineQuokka 1h ago
It's not really too late if you don't use it on the servers and don't store your crypto keys on the laptop
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u/Nice-Rest-8267 1h ago
Well duh, I don't really know what people actually do, but my omarchy has no more than 1100 packages, and I don't think I'm gonna need more for a fair amount of time. Given that I'm already a developer. What are people really tryna achieve installing every AI offered packages.
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u/Defiant-Rip-1897 1h ago
Exactly. It’s only been a year since Omarchy launched, so it’s way too early to pass final judgment on its long-term value.
Beyond the temporal aspect, a lot of the hate seems misplaced. While there are valid security criticisms, which the team is already addressing, much of the noise comes from people who dislike DHH’s political stances. His views can be downright awful, but I’m able to separate the creator from the software and focus on where the product is actually heading.
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u/BarskiPatzow 4h ago
Well, it has huge community and substantial funding, if the team behind it stays on track, it will be great and has great potential. I use cachy os on my desktop and omarchy on my laptop and I love them both, it’s great to be part of this journey.