Era XII: a desktop built for one distribution is grafted onto another. Omarchy's Hyprland experience, rebuilt on openSUSE Tumbleweed as Omaweed — a package manager taught to answer to a foreign name, a migration still in flight, and an old Quadro that took 7.5 seconds to draw a single frame. Missions M60, M170–M171.
Four rounds of tuning failed to fix a remote desktop, because none of them touched the broken layer. One benchmark ended the argument in seventy-five seconds, a split driver package made the fix look impossible, and the result was a 236x speedup no config file could have delivered.
Upstream changed its configuration language from .conf to Lua in the middle of the port. A half-migrated desktop looks exactly like a finished one until the moment it doesn't — and the failure modes are invisible, silent, and cheerfully painted across the top of the screen.
A desktop that calls pacman from a hundred places cannot be ported by rewriting every call site. So pacman was made to exist on a system that has never had it — and then the installer around it had to survive being piped into bash on a stranger's machine.
Omarchy is an opinionated Arch desktop. The fleet runs openSUSE. Taking the first and putting it on the second is not a copy — it is a fork with obligations, and the obligations start the moment you realise which assumptions the original author never had to write down.