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Why I traded my custom "Opinionated Linux" for Omarchy

DEV Community·Guilherme Yamakawa de Oliveira·about 1 month ago
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I've been using Omarchy as my main setup since June 26, 2025, the day DHH released the first version. Before that I had my own custom Opinionated Linux, mclovin-ARCHived : an Arch + i3wm installer set up exactly the way I liked. It was total control over the OS: me deciding what goes in, keeping every piece (i3wm, polybar , picom , kitty , dotfiles) up to date and making sure they all talked to each other for the whole OS to keep working. It did the job, but it was costly to keep up to date: always digging into some new TUI to solve a small issue, and changing CPU or laptop meant checking compatibility for everything and tweaking for each machine. Omarchy solved that by delivering the same kind of setup, but with a whole community behind it, working and discussing improvements every week. I learn something new all the time. Theme: Osaka Jade Why Omarchy Omarchy is an opinionated Arch distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) , creator of Rails , Basecamp and Hey .…

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