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I just switched over to it from Ubuntu. So far the nice thing is that it gives you a fully decked out hyprland setup without any of the hassle and pretty good U

I just switched over to it from Ubuntu. So far the nice thing is that it gives you a fully decked out hyprland setup without any of the hassle and pretty good UX. The problem I've always had with trying out a tiling window manager like hyprland is you're going to spend a very long time trying to get everything just right. With Omarchy I get a really nice hyprland setup right out of the box.

5-0 28d ago
I implore you to give CachyOS with Niri a try.
rounce 29d ago
Github is awash with people's dotfiles including fully featured DEs built on top of things like Hyprland and Noctalia, and they don't require you to use a mess of a distro to use them.
- dngray 29d ago
  100% this, either use a DE like GNOME or Cosmic if you can't be bothered, or spend a little time looking at someone's dotfiles. No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.
  - dmix 29d ago
    > No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you. I used Vim for a decade (and Linux for much of that time) and the constant tweaking and changing things drives you mad after a while. The more you invent it yourself the more it changes. This is why I prefer MacOS+VSCode these days, which comes with good defaults and simpler VIM-style bindings. Omarchy sounds like those popular vim configs such as https://astronvim.com/ https://astronvim.com/, which I also tried using and also ended up heavily customizing myself. It provided some nice defaults as a baseline but was ultimately comes with too much hyper-customization (which has a lot to do with vim/neovim trying to act like other more modern editors).
  - maxlin 29d ago
    There's a way to have 1000 poor decisions with your arch sure. I use Omarchy to avoid just that.
- oneneptune 28d ago
  Yeah, I mean when I set up my last distro I just installed claude and told it what I wanted and in about 30 minutes it was up and running. No need to install random distros!
dgellow 29d ago
So, one config file? Why would you use a distribution for that?
mplanchard 28d ago
The nice thing about wayland is you can easily combine a compositor/window manager with a wayland desktop shell and get a lot of the stuff you used to have to fiddle with when using like i3 for free. For example, I use niri with the “dank material shell” desktop shell and get status bar, notifications, clock, suspend/resume, etc. all “out of the box.”

5-0 28d ago

I implore you to give CachyOS with Niri a try.

rounce 29d ago

Github is awash with people's dotfiles including fully featured DEs built on top of things like Hyprland and Noctalia, and they don't require you to use a mess of a distro to use them.

dngray 29d ago
100% this, either use a DE like GNOME or Cosmic if you can't be bothered, or spend a little time looking at someone's dotfiles. No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.
- dmix 29d ago
  > No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you. I used Vim for a decade (and Linux for much of that time) and the constant tweaking and changing things drives you mad after a while. The more you invent it yourself the more it changes. This is why I prefer MacOS+VSCode these days, which comes with good defaults and simpler VIM-style bindings. Omarchy sounds like those popular vim configs such as https://astronvim.com/ https://astronvim.com/, which I also tried using and also ended up heavily customizing myself. It provided some nice defaults as a baseline but was ultimately comes with too much hyper-customization (which has a lot to do with vim/neovim trying to act like other more modern editors).
- maxlin 29d ago
  There's a way to have 1000 poor decisions with your arch sure. I use Omarchy to avoid just that.
oneneptune 28d ago
Yeah, I mean when I set up my last distro I just installed claude and told it what I wanted and in about 30 minutes it was up and running. No need to install random distros!

dgellow 29d ago

So, one config file? Why would you use a distribution for that?

mplanchard 28d ago

The nice thing about wayland is you can easily combine a compositor/window manager with a wayland desktop shell and get a lot of the stuff you used to have to fiddle with when using like i3 for free. For example, I use niri with the “dank material shell” desktop shell and get status bar, notifications, clock, suspend/resume, etc. all “out of the box.”