Omarchy makes Hyprland usable but remains keyboard‑centric and for experienced users

According to ZDNET's Jack Wallen, Omarchy — an Arch-based, “omakase” distribution — packages the Hyprland Wayland compositor in a way that made Hyprland usable for him, but the desktop is heavily keyboard‑centric and aimed at experienced users. Hyprland is described as a highly customizable, dynamic tiling compositor for Wayland that automatically arranges applications in tiles, and can be fast, secure and visually configurable.

The article says Hyprland is very keyboard‑centric, so mouse users will find little support and most interactions happen via keyboard shortcuts. Omarchy is presented as an Omakase distribution (the article notes “omakase” means “I’ll leave it up to you”) that embraces the “Linux‑ness” of the environment rather than mimicking Windows or macOS.

Examples of keyboard shortcuts called out include Super + Space to open the application launcher, Super + Alt + Space for the Omarchy menu, Super + J to stack windows horizontally, Super + Shift + Arrow Right to swap windows, Super + Ctrl + T for the Activity Monitor, Super + T to tile or float a window, Super + Shift + F for the file manager, and workspace moves such as Super + Shift + 2 and Super + Shift + 1.

The article lists bundled applications that come with Omarchy such as Chromium, 1Password, an office suite, Signal and ChatGPT, and says Omarchy can be suitable for everyday users, power users, developers and gamers.

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