Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by httpsoverdns on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:05PM
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So as someone that doesn't want to support DHH after what I've learned in this thread, but was interested in checking out omarchy based on some neat videos I've seen... What should I check out instead?
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Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by gausswho on Monday October 13, 2025 @10:51PM
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Omarchy is basically an opinionated set of libraries, largely centered around Hyprland tiling window manager, with minor celebrity marketing. I don't see why it's a distro, it may as well be a set of dotfiles.
Try out Hyprland yourself, it's fun and simpler to customize than its i3 ancestor.
Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by gedy on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:43PM
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Omarchy is really just some packages and defaults, you can assemble yourself. (It was not a beginner friendly distro to begin with)
Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by zahlman on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @09:19AM
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In what sense are other distros more than "some packages and defaults"?
Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by gedy on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:06AM
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They aren't really, just commenting on alternatives asked for, as Omarchy is just convenient repackaging.
Re:Thoughts on Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
by _bent on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:10PM
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CachyOS is also an Arch based distro with a GUI installer including multiple desktop options, such as Gnome, KDE Plasma, but also preconfigured Hyprland or Niri with a Waybar, Alacritty and a spotlight-esque application launcher.
I'm currently dual booting Windows & CachyOS with Niri and installation was incredibly smooth, including setting up secure boot or playing Windows games.