Re: [PLUG] Have you tried Omarchy?

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 8/13/2025 5:26 PM, Rich Mingin (PLUG) via plug wrote:
> Using Super-X to launch Twitter is deeply insulting.
>
> Removing that isn't trivial, unless you want to hard-fork and do all
> the updating yourself from there on.

I don't really have an issue with pre-shipping dumb defaults - distros 
do that all the time, because it is impossible to do anything that some 
FOSS enthusiast wouldn't consider dumb.  Making it really painful to 
change is a whole different story.

I also learned that keyboard shortcuts are always a nice add-on, but 
windowing/etc systems that are 100% reliant on them are really painful 
to get used to, and especially if they aren't your daily driver.  Plus 
there is always that time you want to do something a little different 
and there isn't even a config page to pull up where it is mapped to, 
because that is buried in one of 47 text config files scattered/layered 
all over the filesystem behind 12 layers of #include's.  If you want a 
super-minimalist UI a reasonable solution is to have some shortcut that 
toggles all the traditional UI elements.  So you can do everything with 
shortcuts, and then when you need to do that one thing you hit the one 
shortcut you have to memorize and suddenly you're back in a traditional 
UI with window decorations and task bars and start menus or whatever.  
Then you hover over the button you were looking for and it displays the 
keyboard shortcut you were looking for, and you can choose to memorize 
it for next time or just click the button.

Likewise I'm transitioning to Colemak and I keep a Qwerty keyboard 
plugged in as well, so that when my brain just needs a rest I can reach 
for it.  I can also see where all those symbol keys that use shift are 
located as well since those don't show up on mappings.  You need to 
think about the transition experience even for power users...

--
Rich

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