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> I'm more and more inclined of switching my desktop (my main working machine) to Omarchy Never heard of it and the website and GitHub repo sure aren't doing a

by thunky 9mo ago

> I'm more and more inclined of switching my desktop (my main working machine) to Omarchy Never heard of it and the website and GitHub repo sure aren't doing a great job of describing it's benefits. "Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" are vague and really aren't adjectives I'd be looking for in an OS.

wackget 9mo ago
When anything is described as "opinionated" I just read it as "wilfully inflexible".
- TomatoCo 9mo ago
  Although there are some places you want that! WireGuard is often described as cryptographically opinionated because it doesn't even bother trying to negotiate crypto primitives which makes it immune to downgrade attacks. Though, to be fair, that also means that if its primitives ever do get broken you need to roll out an entirely new release.
- theParadox42 9mo ago
  It’s opinionated coming from Arch Linux. Compared to MacOS or Windows it’s a big giant push over. Opinionated in this context just means it comes with defaults rather than asking you to research your own display compositor.
- zemo 9mo ago
  opinionated versus unopinionated is a tradeoff. Things that boast about how unopinionated they are often require a lot of hand holding or manual config. I think there's a big audience of people that have non-Appleware that want an OS that is not Windows, but don't actually care to customize it.
- throw4r5t6y3 9mo ago
  It’s by David Heinemeier Hansson. Based on his writings, he’s very inflexible. He’s even unwilling to accept that a person of color who was born and raised in Britain can be British.
nemomarx 9mo ago
There's always been Arch linux based distros that come with more things set up and better (or just more specific) defaults. To my understanding Omarchy is just one of those, like Manjaro or etc in the past?
- deng 9mo ago
  Yeah, it's just one of those, but worse. It's basically run by a bunch of badly written bash scripts: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
kombine 9mo ago
I would instead recommend going for Fedora KDE Edition which will give you state of the art Linux desktop experience.
itbeho 9mo ago
I've been daily driving it for months now and really like it. It's a nice introduction to tiling window managers, has a well thought out key mapping and generally looks reasonably nice while getting out of my way as an embedded dev.
prmoustache 9mo ago
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by thunky 9mo ago

wackget 9mo ago

When anything is described as "opinionated" I just read it as "wilfully inflexible".

TomatoCo 9mo ago
Although there are some places you want that! WireGuard is often described as cryptographically opinionated because it doesn't even bother trying to negotiate crypto primitives which makes it immune to downgrade attacks. Though, to be fair, that also means that if its primitives ever do get broken you need to roll out an entirely new release.
theParadox42 9mo ago
It’s opinionated coming from Arch Linux. Compared to MacOS or Windows it’s a big giant push over. Opinionated in this context just means it comes with defaults rather than asking you to research your own display compositor.
zemo 9mo ago
opinionated versus unopinionated is a tradeoff. Things that boast about how unopinionated they are often require a lot of hand holding or manual config. I think there's a big audience of people that have non-Appleware that want an OS that is not Windows, but don't actually care to customize it.
throw4r5t6y3 9mo ago
It’s by David Heinemeier Hansson. Based on his writings, he’s very inflexible. He’s even unwilling to accept that a person of color who was born and raised in Britain can be British.

nemomarx 9mo ago

There's always been Arch linux based distros that come with more things set up and better (or just more specific) defaults. To my understanding Omarchy is just one of those, like Manjaro or etc in the past?

deng 9mo ago
Yeah, it's just one of those, but worse. It's basically run by a bunch of badly written bash scripts: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

kombine 9mo ago

I would instead recommend going for Fedora KDE Edition which will give you state of the art Linux desktop experience.

itbeho 9mo ago

I've been daily driving it for months now and really like it. It's a nice introduction to tiling window managers, has a well thought out key mapping and generally looks reasonably nice while getting out of my way as an embedded dev.

prmoustache 9mo ago

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