My Omarchy Experience So Far

I have to say — I love it.

It’s my first time using a tiling window manager, and yes, it takes some time to get used to. Not that much, but enough to feel the friction. Once you’re past that, you fly.

LazyVim + tmux

LazyVim is awesome. I’m an active Vim user, but this is another experience entirely. Pair it with tmux and you won’t need to leave your terminal again — at least not for looking up docs. Everything is one keystroke away.

Add workspaces on top of that and your hands never have to leave the keyboard. Not in development mode, anyway.

Still finding my shortcuts

I still have a lot to learn. Part of the joy is the process of finding which shortcuts actually fit my workflow and ingraining them over time. There’s no single right configuration — you build it as you go.

The next challenge: ROS2 on Arch Linux

Before Omarchy I was an Ubuntu user, and my main reason was ROS. Now I’m on Arch Linux and the next experiment is getting ROS2 running here. It’s the kind of challenge that feels right in this environment.

What I’d say to someone considering it

I wouldn’t pitch it as being about speed. The mouse is still useful. This is more about how you feel with your laptop. You feel in control. The experience is just nicer — and that’s hard to put into words until you’ve lived it for a few days.

We’ve been so conditioned to UIs and floating windows that a tiling setup feels foreign at first. Push through that initial friction and you might not go back.

Give Omarchy a try.

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This post is an expanded version of a note I originally shared on LinkedIn.