Switching back and forth between my Mac and Omarchy

Decisions decisions.. I have been using both my Omarchy machine and my MacOS (now Tahoe) the last weeks.

In the beginning I really enjoyed Omarchy, and I only reluctantly used my Mac when nescessary.

However after the honeymoon phase where Omarchy was such a fresh breath I hit a few obstacles that made me switch over to the mac again as a daily driver this week.

The reason for these obstacles were not on the OS-end though. Omarchy was not at fault per-se, but the combination of Omarchy on my macbook was the issue. Specifically two main reasons:

  1. I have no sound on the Omarchy machine. Kind of annoying.

  2. Suspend (sleep) doesn't work. I cannot wake it up again after.

These issues were still not holding me back in the beginning. I just ran music from my mac og phone, and turned off the machine after my days work.

But it began getting annoying after a while. And since I ruminate for ever about wether or not buying a Beelink or Framework makes sense I still am stuck with this sort of half-functioning Omarchy-machine.

I feel its an unfair fight though. My MacOS machine is substantially better specced, and has none of the two issues above. Whereas a dedicated linux machine (like Beelink or Framework, or mostly anything outside the mac-world I guess) would likely run much better. Especially regarding the two issues above.

So how would thing look if the comparison was more fair? That's the big question. I go a bit back and forth, but I do believe Omarchy is a substantially better fit for most of my work-related tasks.

The MacOS is however a better fit for my private life, as the rest of my family use it and everything that comes with it. But to be honest, I don't use the computer much for private stuff anyway. I mainly use the computer during work hours for work (duh), and most of private stuff is anyway on the phone, which for now is an iPhone.

And it's not like the macbook goes away anyway. I have that, but I am very tempted to go all in on Omarchy as my daily system. But I'd like a better machine for it than my broken flexgate-ridden butterfly-keyboarded issue-prone macbook. Currently eyeing the Beelinks.