<div class="header-image"></div> <table class="table-header"> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="2"></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>2026-09-28</td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="About.md" class="internal-link">About</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> # Omarchy is the Beginner Distro of the Future  I've been intending to write an update to my [previous](2025-08-24%20Omarchy%20and%20the%20Year%20of%20the%20Linux%20Desktop.md) [posts](2025-10-19%20Framework%2012%20Review.md) about Omarchy Linux. Much has changed with it in the year since I initially started playing with it. When I first installed Omarchy over a year ago, it was still an install script intended to be run over an extremely minimal Arch installation. It has since grown into its own established distro that really sets itself apart from anything else right now. And that is that it gives the user agentic AI coding right out of the box. Now wait, what in the buzz-word does that fucking mean? Ok, fair question. I'll tell you by example what it means for a beginner: When you first install, one of the prompts is to set a default agent. There is also a hotkey for this, and of course it can be found in the Omarchy menu. I chose OpenCode (I didn't choose this at install, as it didn't exist a year ago. DHH's opinion on AI has changed dramatically since then). OpenCode lets you choose from many models, and gives a free one to begin: Zen Big Pickle. *insert pickle joke here.* In my experience, this free model has been very capable, and, thus far anyway, I haven't had the need to explore options that require a monthly payment. And I use it all the time. What this agent does is fix things for you. One thing that has been bugging me for quite some time is that Nautilus, the default file manager, doesn't theme with the rest of Omarchy, nor does any KDE apps. I asked the agent to fix this. It did. On another machine, a Thinkpad P52, I installed Steam and Portal wouldn't launch without crashing. I asked the agent to fix it. It did. I wanted to be able to select from the bar which apps used my integrated GPU and which used the discrete GPU. It created a plugin to do this and installed the plugin so that I now have this feature right in the system tray. These are things that I could have spent tinkering with for *weeks*, sifting through forum posts and the like, trying to implement a solution. For a beginner to Linux, that in itself is nearly an impossible task, trying to sort through solutions involving different desktop environments, different distros, what solutions work with which distro *groups* (are you using a Debian-based distro or Arch-based? something else?), is the solution out of date now, etc. All of these considerations don't matter any more when there's an agent that can do the heavy lifting. In short, Omarchy, by default, now comes with its own IT department. I think this is what Microsoft had in mind when they started putting Copilot everywhere. But the implementation was horrible, and it was forced into everything. With Omarchy, the prompt to set up a default agent can be ignored, leaving the user with the Omarchy of old. And if it's set up, it's contained within OpenCode, or Hermes, or whatever you choose. Once that is closed, you don't have to be bothered by it at all. Microsoft seemed to want to bring back Clippy in AI form, and keep it running everywhere. Two other big changes to which I've had to adjust is the switch to Lua configs in Hyprland, and the removal of several pieces of the desktop (Walker menu, Waybar, etc.) in favour of Quickshell implementations. This adjustment was smoothed over *immensely* just by having an agent make changes for me. There is a contingent of people out there who really want Omarchy to fail, for some reason. Thankfully, no one is paying attention. This direction that DHH is taking will change the desktop forever. It's only been a couple of months since all this was brought to the stable branch. Imagine where we will be in a few years. The mind boggles.