I Was thinking about switching to full-time Linux for years, maybe decades. I’ve had Linux installed on side-computer (Ubuntu and Mint on my home server), but not on my main laptop. I made the switch on 23 March. I decided to install Omarchy, because it looked cool and it was a new and refreshing user experience. I thought I´d give it a try.
But I don´t love the fascist captain and I don´t love the bloat. Now I also hear that it is being build and maintained by AI.
But also, I love the way Omarchy works. I love the keyboard oriented aproach. I love the super-button. I love the menus. I love the nvim setup. I love the desktop layout. I love that it just works out-of-the-box and that it is (or appears) stable. I love that installing anything is so easy.
I appreciate Omarchy for being such a good gateway drug into the Linux world for people like me and I think it deserves some credit for that. But I also have ethical complaints that ruin the fun.
So what I’m really looking for is, how can I take all these features I like so much, and apply them on a proper distro?
The obvious solution seems Arch, but I want my computer to work without having to spend weeks learning how all the mechanics and fine configuration details work. I don´t even now what the configuration details are that make the things I like. Maybe that’s not an issue with Arch, but I don´t know much about Arch tbh. I haven´t had the time to learn about it.
Or maybe I’m just asking too much as an old man (though dhh is a decade my senior) and I should just go back to Mint…
Isn’t omarchy just a preconfigured Arch + Hyprland + Dmenu?
I never went that route have always been using Arch with gnome until I like you liked what I saw with Hyprland (it was before Omarchy blew up) and just configured it myself over time and pushed my configuration public once it was stable enough: https://git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfiles
It’s just dot files (configuration files) anyway.
In the beginning I sometimes had to log in to gnome because some things didn’t work but over time it happened less and less.
yes Omarchy is essentially opinionated dotfiles for Arch.
Yes, and it’s configured for webdev and being a social media junky. Just use Arch and Hyprland with practical settings.
I decided not to try omarchy when I saw it came with grok preinstalled.
Then I learned who DHH was. Now I’m definitely not bothering.
I didn’t mention that because I try to keep politics out of the technical side of programming but that insufferable fuckwad brought it upon himself.