It looks good. Immediately.
We had a folder of dotfiles ready. Years of them. Omarchy turned up looking like that on the first boot.
Look at the damage →
Local man runs out of reasons not to start side project
Omarchy sucks. Beautiful, fun & annoyingly good Linux.
They made Linux enjoyable. Now everyone wants to talk about it.
We would like to register a complaint.
Where do we even begin?
Linux was a perfectly good way to spend a weekend not doing the thing you bought a computer to do. Then somebody picked the tools, sorted out the colours, and gave it a name.
Now the terminal matches the editor. The windows arrange themselves. People are posting screenshots because they’re happy. You can see how this puts us in a difficult position.
Your mouse feels neglected.
Hyprland arranges the windows. Shortcuts open the apps. We’re keeping the mouse around for moral support.
Learn the shortcuts →It expects you to make things.
The editor is there. Git is there. Your stack is in the menu. “Still setting up” is getting harder to defend.
Run out of excuses →Someone made decisions.
They call it omakase. We call it closing forty-seven tabs about terminal emulators without reaching a conclusion.
Read the reluctant manual →It’s still your computer.
Arch underneath. Source you can read. Defaults you can replace. You don’t even have to ask anyone first.
Inspect the source ↗No one sent an invoice.
No subscription to the nice colours. No premium terminal. We checked. You can just use the thing.
See what it costs →Even the colours get along.
Terminal, editor, wallpaper. All of them. Try one here; this site changes too.
There’s a plugin for that. Of course there is.
Someone had an idea, made it, and shared it. Then someone else did the same.
A pet in your bar
Omagotchi gives your desktop something to look after. Apparently being attached to the computer itself wasn’t enough.
A globe full of radio
Radio Atlas lets you tune in around the world. A rather elaborate way to avoid choosing a playlist.
Backups, too
Time Machine makes room for the sensible stuff. Not every shared idea has to be a tiny animal.
A shared delusion that computers can be lovely.
People are making themes, swapping plugins, helping strangers, and meeting up to talk about their desktops. This is getting out of hand.
Somehow a discussion about a terminal can just be a discussion about a terminal. Not a referendum on everything anyone has ever believed. Sometimes you like the colours. Sometimes somebody helps you fix a bug. That can be enough.
Find your fellow sufferers →“I just think it’s nice to like my computer again.”
The worst part? We love it.
It isn’t perfect. It is somebody’s considered idea of a good computer, shared with people who want to make it better. We’ll find a way to cope.