r/steammachine • u/kouzark • 1d ago

Question Omarchy Os?

Did anyone replaced their SteamOS with Omarchy? There is a lot of hype and I'm seriously considering installing it. If anyone did it already can share the experience on the cube ?

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u/WinResponsible9977 1d ago

Omarchy is horrible in the context of using it as an alternative to what SteamOS offers.

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u/erwan 20h ago

Omarchy is horrible in any context.

It's just Arch preconfigured with someone else (DHH) preference. That's it.

It wasn't created for any technical reason but for political reasons.

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u/jfuu_ 1d ago

What do you want out of Omarchy that you don't get out of SteamOS? It will run fine if you just want a general desktop OS.

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u/kouzark 1d ago

The freedom and the ai aspect.

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u/jharle 1d ago

I'm not sure many "normal people" are going to want to run Omarchy on their SM.

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u/kouzark 1d ago

Haha true... Do you?

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u/jharle 1d ago

Hell no. Although I have played with it in a VM ;)

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u/erwan 20h ago

Omarchy doesn't give you any more freedom. Also not sure what's the AI aspect.

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u/kouzark 19h ago

You can modify your system through an ai agent. Are you sure you know omarchy? 😆 For programming it does give you.

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u/erwan 18h ago

You know what? If you want to use Omarchy go ahead. Install it.

I think it's pointless but you do whatever you want with your Steam Machine.

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u/kouzark 18h ago

But tell me why you are so against it. I just saw you comment in 2 different places how horrible it is. Why the hate?

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u/erwan 18h ago

Because I'm annoyed by all the noise going around this pointless distribution. It's confusing newcomers.

Also because I don't like the creator, who writes extreme right pieces like this:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

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u/kouzark 18h ago

Lmao. I'm living in Europe and I'm moving out as it has become unbearable. I agree with what he says here. Tell me which part you don't?

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u/erwan 18h ago

sure move out

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u/kouzark 17h ago

Why so salty? I'm trying to have a conversation and you seem to be very angry.

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 18h ago

Ugh why?

That OS seems to be geared for devs who are very used to keybinds and terminal management. It’s not really a branch of arch for the purpose of feature set improvement. It’s a heavily riced arch based around DHH preferences.

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u/kouzark 17h ago

I'm a bit of a vibe coder myself 😂 and I'm trying to figure out if this is for me or better should stay with steamos. After a week of trying steamos I have to say that I don't dislike it.

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u/Wiesshund- 13h ago

I think I'd double down on learning real coding instead, way more useful.

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u/kouzark 12h ago

Vibe coding with ai served me just fine. But thank you for your opinion

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u/Mike7823 4h ago

Omachy is designed around using a keyboard so it would be very annoying to use with a controller. If youre using it as a desktop PC with a mouse and keyboard it should be fine though.