Omarchy

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Omarchy, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Windows get stuck in tiling patterns, forcing users to remember key combos2026-08-30
Many Steam games were dog slow or unplayable2026-08-26
Disabling tap-to-click requires hand-editing a config file, and the AI-suggested format was wrong2026-08-24
Windows keep moving and resizing unpredictably, leaving the user completely lost2026-08-21
Dictation is hard to set up2026-01-11
Fullscreen and windowed mode switching causes hiccups and friction for gaming windows2026-01-10
Tiling window manager and keyboard shortcuts take time to learn, hard to remember for rare tasks2025-10-23
No GUI wifi manager, so when wifi dropped they could not reconnect via the terminal2025-09-22
Early installer required typing CLI commands just to connect to wifi2025-09-22
Setting up multiple displays is painful, especially when plugging into different monitors often2025-09-15
Inconsistent keyboard commands and editing config files to change settings2025-09-15
Can't find how to disable it; not obvious and hard to search for2025-08-25
Mouse acceleration feels bad and the user doesn't know how to change it2025-08-25
Address bar hidden, so user can't tell where their files are2025-08-13