937: Is The Omarchy Hype Real?

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Scott takes Wes on a tour of Omarchy, DHH’s polished Arch + Hyprland Linux setup that promises speed, beauty, and endless keyboard shortcuts. From first impressions to daily workflows, Scott debates whether it’s good enough to pull him out of the Apple ecosystem for good. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:31 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 02:55 What is Omarchy? 02:57 Arch-based distribution. 03:42 Hyprland window management. 05:08 Wayland Display Server Protocol. 06:27 Installation Defaults. 06:53 System-wide shortcuts. 09:01 My first impressions. 09:41 Connecting to my NAS. 10:54 Gigantic UI. 12:21 Day 2 Experiences. 13:22 Resizing window challenges. 16:11 Neovim and Lazyvim. 16:49 Lazygit. 19:07 How do you use it and why is it good. 19:14 Command Palette. 19:49 Raycast. Recreating Raycast. 20:50 Using the app launcher. 21:25 Screensavers. 21:59 OS Style. 22:55 My apps, my apps, my apps, check it out. 25:07 Is the hardware comparable to Mac’s M processors? 27:24 Installing new apps. 29:26 Web apps as first class citizens. 32:47 What I’ll miss. 35:56 What’s going on with MacOS UI? 38:37 Annoyances. 39:31 My advice. Read the Manual. 44:39 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: Omarchy Manual. Wes: Ugreen 200w Charger, Silicone USB C. Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to syntax. Today, I'm going to be talking about O-Marchi. And I'm going to say,
0:07.5	O-Marche, I believe that's how it's spelled. If that is a wrong pronunciation, please correct
0:13.2	me. O-Marchie is a much-hyped new Linux install from DHH and the Basecamp folks. And if you're around tech Twitter, you may have
0:24.9	seen a lot of people talking about this. It being great, wanting to buy a framework computer,
0:31.7	and just being like, wow, this is really, really, really exciting. So you may have seen
0:36.8	some chatter about it.
0:38.2	And if you haven't, this would be a good opportunity for you to check out and learn something new.
0:43.8	I'll be showing some video for this.
0:45.6	If you're a video watcher, you'll have a lot to see.
0:48.6	If you're an audio listener, we will still make sure we're describing things and make it not too visual.
0:53.5	But always, again,
0:54.3	check us out on YouTube at Syntax FM. Smash that subscribe button because we release a lot of
0:59.5	great stuff or Spotify where there is videos. Well, my name is Scott Tolensky. I'm a developer from
1:04.1	Denver with me. As always, is Wes boss. What's up, Wes? Hey, I knew that you would be into this. As
1:09.6	soon as everybody started talking about like, oh, an entirely different Linux distribution.
1:15.0	And I know you've dipped into using Linux several times in the past.
1:18.5	And you have some hardware as well.
1:20.4	But I was like, I'm counting the clock until the days that Scott says he's going to try this and say,
1:26.9	it's the best thing ever.
1:28.1	And it was it was probably ours.
1:30.9	It is interesting.
1:32.4	I'm not necessarily a huge fan of working on Linux in the past.
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