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Try Omarchy.org variant of Linux if you are tired of Apple's years of user-hostile changes and UI disasters. Many people seem to be drawn to it as it's a simple, clean productive system that "just work" (it was build by a previous apple fan that also became disillusioned by the greedy company)

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I think Fedora would be a better option here. At least for me.

Judging by the Omarchy presentation video it feels too keyboard oriented. Hotkeys for everything. And hotkeys for AI agents? Is is opinionated indeed. Not my cup of tea.

He also became disillusioned by people with a different skin colour to him, so no thanks.

I pulled up a video on Omarchy 2.0 from DHH. The first thing he says is it's based on a tiling window manager that takes time to learn and setup, most things are done in the terminal and with the keyboard.

I feel like that loses a majority of people right there. I like the option to do common things with the keyboard, or to configure things with a file. But for things I don't do often, holding a bunch of keyboard shortcuts in my head feels like a waste for those rare things.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I can't run whatever Linux distro I want at work. When an OS relies on muscle memory to get smooth and fluid operation, it seems like that would make it extra hard to jump between for work vs home. I spent years jumping between OS X and Windows, and I found it's much nicer now that I'm on the same OS for work and home. Even the little things, like using a different notes app at home vs work do trip me up a little, where I'll get shortcuts wrong, or simply not invest in them, because of the switching issue. Omarchy feels like it would be that situation on steroids.

Really wanted to give this a try until i saw a huge "Grok" ad on their frontpage. As a european Grok has the reputation of being the "fascist and openly racist AI", which i think there's actually hard evidence for with their leaked prompts. Why the hell are they promoting that?

Because Omarchy is a Linux distro by DHH and therefore you can also call it a "fascist and openly racist" Linux distro.

DHH was someone I kinda read him online, but he's been going full-in on these racist talking points, e.g., https://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-l... :(

Modern day witch trial.

I didn't see the Grok, but the Omarchy creator is quite openly problematic anyway: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

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