Omakub — Omarchy

Before Omarchy, there was Omakub: an omakase developer setup that turned a fresh Ubuntu installation into a configured web development system with one command.

Omakub described as a fully configured, beautiful, and modern web development system

Early aesthetics

Omakub paired the GNOME desktop with a selected development environment and coordinated styling.

The Omakub desktop showing the GNOME overview, a misty forest wallpaper, dock, and workspaces

The Omakub desktop on GNOME.

Neovim and a terminal running inside Zellij, showing the Omakub file tree

Neovim and Zellij were configured out of the box.

The Omakub theme command in a terminal, with the Omakub ASCII banner

One command could apply a theme across multiple applications.

The road to Omarchy

Omakub demonstrated interest in a complete, opinionated Linux setup for developers. It also exposed the limits of layering those opinions over Ubuntu and GNOME. Tiling, keyboard-led operation, and a terminal-centered system were difficult to make foundational there.

The omakase approach moved from Ubuntu to Arch and from GNOME to Hyprland, becoming Omarchy: a complete distribution rather than a configuration layer over another desktop.

Archived project

Omakub is retired. Its repositories remain archived on GitHub: omakub and omakub-site.

Omabuntu is a community fork continuing the omakase approach on Ubuntu.