Back on Linux, with Omarchy

August 20, 2025 8:13 AM

For the past few days, I’ve been using Linux as my primary workstation. DHH’s posts pushed me over the edge.

I’ve used several OSes over the years. Windows 95, then Mandrake Linux, a decade on FreeBSD, then Mac since engineering school. The Mac setup got stale. Bloated. Time for something different.

Now running Omarchy.

My setup is fixed+mobile. Desktop switched to Linux, laptop stays on macOS (I like the Photos ecosystem with iPhone).

The Omarchy machine:

€99 Dell Optiplex: i5 10th gen, NVMe, 8GB RAM. Lower tier—a newer machine would help.
1G fibre
Chromium for CEO work (Gmail, Slides)
Vim and Cursor for coding

Setup notes:

loadkeys fr-latin1 for AZERTY during install
Hypr needs manual French keymap config—didn’t inherit Arch settings. See Omarchy’s Manual.
Moved my Obsidian vault from iCloud to Dropbox

Some keymaps don’t work with AZERTY. SUPER+minus maps to SUPER+6, which conflicts with virtual desktop switching. Still figuring it out.