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> I'm more and more inclined of switching my desktop (my main working machine) to Omarchy

Never heard of it and the website and GitHub repo sure aren't doing a great job of describing it's benefits.

"Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" are vague and really aren't adjectives I'd be looking for in an OS.

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When anything is described as "opinionated" I just read it as "wilfully inflexible".

It’s opinionated coming from Arch Linux. Compared to MacOS or Windows it’s a big giant push over. Opinionated in this context just means it comes with defaults rather than asking you to research your own display compositor.

Although there are some places you want that! WireGuard is often described as cryptographically opinionated because it doesn't even bother trying to negotiate crypto primitives which makes it immune to downgrade attacks. Though, to be fair, that also means that if its primitives ever do get broken you need to roll out an entirely new release.

opinionated versus unopinionated is a tradeoff. Things that boast about how unopinionated they are often require a lot of hand holding or manual config. I think there's a big audience of people that have non-Appleware that want an OS that is not Windows, but don't actually care to customize it.

It’s by David Heinemeier Hansson. Based on his writings, he’s very inflexible. He’s even unwilling to accept that a person of color who was born and raised in Britain can be British.

I would instead recommend going for Fedora KDE Edition which will give you state of the art Linux desktop experience.

I've been daily driving it for months now and really like it. It's a nice introduction to tiling window managers, has a well thought out key mapping and generally looks reasonably nice while getting out of my way as an embedded dev.

There's always been Arch linux based distros that come with more things set up and better (or just more specific) defaults. To my understanding Omarchy is just one of those, like Manjaro or etc in the past?

Yeah, it's just one of those, but worse. It's basically run by a bunch of badly written bash scripts:

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

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