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It should probably start with WTF is Omarchy. I recently moved my gaming desktop to CachyOS from Manjaro, but I have no idea what Omarchy is or whether or not
by alias_neo 1y ago
It should probably start with WTF is Omarchy.
I recently moved my gaming desktop to CachyOS from Manjaro, but I have no idea what Omarchy is or whether or not I want it, and there's not a single link in the README.
Guess I'll go look it up.
- theshrike79 1y agoOmarchy is an “opinionated” Arch distro by dhh of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp/Hey fame
- isr 1y agoIts not really a distro, nor does it pretend to be. What it really is, is an Arch Linux install, with a preconfigured set of apps & workflow, and a set of tools to easily allow the user to customise to their preferences - within the confines of the original config/workflow. Basically, it's a "curated Arch linux"
- unixhero 1y agoSo it could just be some files and a bash script or maybe better, an Ansible recipe??? Sorry for being reductionist but its late and I'm out of beer.
- isr 1y agoThat's essentially what it is. They don't really pretend otherwise. The iso is a convenience for 1 stop installs.
- theshrike79 1y agoAren't most distros like that when you really dig down into it? The bash scripts just get fancier over time, but that's it.
- alias_neo 1y agoAh, thanks for explaining (and the rest of the thread for clearing up the "not a distro" part). Kinda reminds me of some of the NixOS configs I created to pre-configure workstations for me when I was tinkering with NixOS, a "desktop configuration in a bottle" sort of thing. Makes sense for Arch I think since a lot of the time getting it ready for your task is a often more than "just install the package you need" as it is on other distros; the main reason I switched to Arch distros when I lost the energy to configure it myself for each new piece of hardware (laptops with media keys especially).