Kicking Omarchy's tires

I like what I see in Omarchy Quattro. I obviously and absolutely love the tiling window manager and TUI-like panes, as I am a fan of the concept popularised by dwm, which I used for a while on a bare bones computer previously. Key bindings clearly seem set by one hardwired to a Mac keyboard. I like the interface / themes-based bling too. But, I am not switching today. Here’s why.

On software

• Omarchy is very young, has a lot of velocity
• Velocity leads to uncertainty, and tail-chasing
• That means insufficient history of issues and workarounds
• I’ve long lived in the battle-tested steady Debian universe
• Never used Arch before; it’s a gunslinger’s distro
• Switching costs are real; don’t want to break my workflow

On hardware

I have an old PC that currently runs Windows 11, has a spare M.2 NVMe SSD slot, and I thought I could pop in a drive there and dual-boot. Two annoyances with this:

• Omarchy needs secure boot turned off
• Windows 11 requires secure boot on

BIOS is fiddly, and much time is wasted at boot every time. I can’t nuke Win11 as it’s for WFH. And I’m not ready with a dedicated hardware for this experiment. There’s enough deterrence in the above preventing me from diving-in. Perhaps when situation changes, and hardware prices drop, I may revisit this in future. Sticking to my essentials for now.