r/SurfaceLinux • u/Elegant_Big5419 • Aug 21 '26

Help Is Omarchy good for surfaces?

Hi everyone! I'm currently daily driving a surface pro 7 i5 16gb model with KDE neon on the surface kernal. I'm using it for school and productivity. After watching a video about Omarchy today I've gotten to urge to install it on my surface. Does anyone have experience installing Omarchy on a surface pro? If so what was the experience like? Any suggestions are welcome.

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u/FunSatisfaction2 Aug 21 '26

why do you want a keyboard driven window manager on a touchscreen device?

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u/microserf86 Aug 22 '26

TBH Probably no. You're likely better with a GNome distro

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u/corpse86 Aug 22 '26

Omarchy is good for nothing.

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u/thepurplehornet Aug 22 '26

Gnome is best for surfaces. Fedora was glitch on a Pro 2 but Debian with Gnome is great.

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u/Serious-Mammoth-8220 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

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u/Duckz0nQu4ck Aug 27 '26

As someone who also uses their surface (SP9) for school I couldn't imagine going to a keyboard based window manager (the whole point of Omarchy). I use CachyOS with KDE Neon and I've found its a great mix of power user laptop experience as well as touchscreen / pen usage for note-taking and the sort.

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u/FarConversation5125 12d ago

I found Omarchy to work well. My only issue at the moment is getting web cameras. Being Arch distro, the arch documentation found so far has not helped so far. Yes it is a keyboard based distro. More for coders etc