Re: [PLUG] Have you tried Omarchy?

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 01:16:58PM +0000, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
> 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...

Here's my take after watching the video on the Omarchy home page:

* I can do most of that window splitting stuff in tmux, but I hardly
  ever do because I can never remember all the control keys. I'd
  probably be the same way there.

* Omarchy looked like it was just Arch + a tiling window manager + a
  selection of default apps. It seemed to me you could try out each of
  those separately. I'm not super interested in Arch or a tiling
  window manager, but I might try out a few of the apps he
  mentioned. Of course this was before I learned that he made it hard
  to override his key bindings. That's just evil.

* Is DHH's mouse and/or keyboard broken? :)

Walt
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