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That’s not a very useful point. Of course if people don’t want the Omarchy experience they can just use something else. That includes you. If it would annoy you then just don’t use it.

Many people did. You see, before Omarchy ever existed there was this thing called "Arch Linux" that was famously a tarpit for unemployed midwits and trend-chasing social media addicts.

To nobody's surprise, curb-cutting a notoriously dangerous and poorly-designed distro does not give you a reliable or accessible system. We saw this with LARBS, ArchLabs, Regolith, Manjaro and now Omarchy too - shipping your dotfiles as an out-of-box experience for other people is 100% pure technical debt. It got so bad that GTK devs directly called on distros to stop shipping overidden defaults since it confuses developers and users both: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-the...

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