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OmarchySoftware

by DHH

Who uses, recommends or left Omarchy, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

George Hotz
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
loved

I’ve been running Omarchy which I have been quite happy with. It fixed the problem I always had with Arch, which is how customizable it is. It’s a great OS (why isn’t apt-get multithreaded yet?), leave the customizability there, but pick some good defaults with taste.

Blog post on trying to replace his MacBook with a Linux laptop

2025-11-28·geohot.github.io ↗

David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Kamal and Omarchy; co-owner and CTO of 37signals.
recommendedtheir own

Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort

2026-09-08·x.com ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
uses

with @omarchy loaded on it! Set up was very easy, fast and flawless, I think it took less than a minute on first opening it Omarchy asks you lots of questions to set it up for you, kind of like an onboarding, but not in an annoying way like Windows would do these days with too many useless questions, every question here makes sense

2026-10-28·x.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.