> Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer, utterly captivated by all the cool things that Linux can do, but lacking the architectural knowledge to get the basics right
I've used Omarchy over the last few months and I don't think this is a fair assessment of the project. Sure, it definitely fells hacky in some places but I don't think it's that bad.
Even though I don't fully agree with the article, I think the conclusion is right. If you already knows your way around linux, Omarchy probably won't be a good option for you in the long term.
I fully switched to linux around 2008 and never looked back. I went through most of the major distos, from Gentoo to Ubuntu. I'm not an expert, but I have a pretty good understanding of how things work under the hood.
Even with all this knowledge I stumbled upon a bug that I wasn't even sure on how to start debugging. In my desktop I have 2 monitors and when the system wakes up from sleep my secondary monitor starts up faster than my main monitor and this puts them in the wrong order, as if I had swapped them left-to-right.
This is a trivial issue, I'm sure that ChatGPT could guide me through this issue in no time. But it made me realize that if I choose to stick with Omarchy I will need re-learn a lot of things, I will need to learn about several new tools and configuration schemas. And I don't want to do it right now, that's not a good time investment for me. Especially if there are no guarantees these tools will still be relevant in 10 years.
And this is why I'll be switching back to old and boring Fedora.