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I don't think distributions or OS vendors focus on that because imagine the outrage if you installed Windows and it pre-installed Zoom, Spotify and 80 other app

by nickjj 1y ago

I don't think distributions or OS vendors focus on that because imagine the outrage if you installed Windows and it pre-installed Zoom, Spotify and 80 other apps for you out of the box. I think it's popular because DHH turned dotfiles into a product and it's being marketed as a distro. Arch + (Hyprland, Waybar, Walker and Mako) are all really popular and standlone tools that make up a reasonable looking desktop environment which Omarchy happens to use too. I have nothing against it. If it gets more people using Linux, that is a huge win. I just find it fasinating to see it from the outside.

marginalia_nu 1y ago
I think this is a bit reductive. I came from using basically the same configuration, configured piecemeal, and migrated to Omarchy because I really enjoy the cohesiveness of the experience. The bundled software aspect is also kinda exaggerated. It almost entirely consists of app launchers for a few chrome-based PWAs. There's like no software to speak off, it's just a .desktop-file you can remove if you don't want it (there's even a menu for that). It's arguably more of a demo of Omarchy's excellent PWA tooling than anything else, where you can create your own PWAs with a simple TUI that blend seamlessly into the rest of the system. This is the supposed bloatware looks like $ cat ~/.local/user/applications/HEY.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=HEY Comment=HEY Exec=omarchy-launch-webapp "https://app.hey.com" Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/home/user/.local/share/applications/icons/HEY.png StartupNotify=true
- nickjj 1y ago
  It's more than the PWAs. There's: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omarchy-base.packages https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omar... https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omarchy-other.packages https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omar... There's around 180 packages being installed, most of which are considered base packages. 1password and tons upon tons of other apps and tools.

by nickjj 1y ago

marginalia_nu 1y ago

I think this is a bit reductive. I came from using basically the same configuration, configured piecemeal, and migrated to Omarchy because I really enjoy the cohesiveness of the experience. The bundled software aspect is also kinda exaggerated. It almost entirely consists of app launchers for a few chrome-based PWAs. There's like no software to speak off, it's just a .desktop-file you can remove if you don't want it (there's even a menu for that). It's arguably more of a demo of Omarchy's excellent PWA tooling than anything else, where you can create your own PWAs with a simple TUI that blend seamlessly into the rest of the system. This is the supposed bloatware looks like $ cat ~/.local/user/applications/HEY.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=HEY Comment=HEY Exec=omarchy-launch-webapp "https://app.hey.com" Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/home/user/.local/share/applications/icons/HEY.png StartupNotify=true

nickjj 1y ago
It's more than the PWAs. There's: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omarchy-base.packages https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omar... https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omarchy-other.packages https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omar... There's around 180 packages being installed, most of which are considered base packages. 1password and tons upon tons of other apps and tools.