Omarchy happily grabbed an IP address after the Debian-to-Omarchy switch, but DNS queries skipped my Pi-hole and went straight to the public internet. In my case, the split-DNS setup for my homelab did no longer work either.

I ran sudo pacman -Syu to bring Omarchy up to date. After rebooting, Hyprland refused to start: after logging in I saw a Dell logo and then was stuck on a black screen. How did I fix it?

While tweaking and configuring my system, I discovered that Omarchy misses a few utilities that are essential; at least, for me.

The text editor that ships with Omarchy is Typora. That is a paid program. Replace it by a free one.

Omarchy ships with a default monitor layout that may work for you, but in my case I needed to adjust it. And its default workspace behaviour does not feel intuitive at all. Here's how I changed it.

Chromium ships with Omarchy, but it is not the browser I want to live in day-to-day. Swapping it for Firefox is the first thing on my list.

I am re-installing my laptop with Omarchy. Why?