Omarchy: My Fastest and Most Beautiful Dev Setup Yet

I recently tried Omarchy, the Arch-based distro made by DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails), and I’m honestly blown away. This isn’t just Arch preinstalled with a few packages — it’s a complete, curated system.

Omarchy comes with Hyprland, LazyVim, and an entire development setup ready to go — but what impressed me most is how effortless everything feels. The configuration and setup experience is smooth, consistent, and genuinely enjoyable.

And the best part? It’s a single ISO install that sets up a complete development environment, and a keyboard-driven workflow in minutes. You don’t spend hours configuring like you would with vanilla Arch — you reboot, log in, and you’re ready to work.

For now, I installed Omarchy on my thinkpad, and I’m not ready to switch my Fedora desktop just yet. Fedora is still my main machine, and I keep Windows around for two things I can’t replace:

• NVIDIA GPU performance — my RTX 3080 runs at full speed and drivers are far more stable and performant in Windows than on Linux.
• Microsoft Visual Studio — for some C++ projects, Visual Studio and its build tools are still the most reliable and convenient choice.

My Current Setup. Omarchy even comes with cool screen savers. (Just Ignore the cables i hade to replace one of them recently 😱)

Even so, Omarchy might be the most exciting development setup I’ve tried. It feels like a hacker’s dream machine, right out of the box, and I love how easy it is to configure and make my own.

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