---
title: "Welcome to Omarchy"
url: "https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/91/welcome-to-omarchy"
---

# Welcome to Omarchy!

Omarchy is an [omakase](https://manuals.omamix.org/3/omacom/76/omakase-computing) Linux distribution based on [Arch](https://archlinux.org/) and the tiling window manager [Hyprland](https://hypr.land/). It ships with everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately from [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) (btw) to Spotify, Chromium to [Typora](https://typora.io/), and [Alacritty](https://alacritty.org/) to LibreOffice. Hell, even Zoom is there!

This isn't just a grab bag of preinstalled packages, though. It's a complete system designed with both aesthetics and productivity in mind. Because a _beautiful_ system is a _motivating_ system, and productivity has always been [downstream from motivation](https://world.hey.com/dhh/beautiful-motivations-6fef7c73). There's zero bloat here: Just everything I use.

It's true that developing an eye for the beauty of a TUI-heavy, theme-delighted, tiling-window-managed system like Omarchy can be an acquired taste. But that's why you're here, isn't it? To experience something a little outside of your comfort zone? To embark on a little bit of an adventure into a new way of working with computers? I hope so.

Omarchy isn't like Windows and it's not like macOS either. It's not trying to be as familiar as possible. It's trying to be beautiful and _better_. Embrace the Linux-ness of it all. Manually editing some config files, sure. Heavy on the terminal, definitely.

Let's get started with the basics.