Re: [PLUG] Have you tried Omarchy?

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

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 03:02:44PM +0000, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
> On 8/14/2025 9:32 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > * 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've played a bit with i3.  The problem is that some of those minimalist
> window managers is that they take the unix philosophy to the max.  That
> means that the overall UI is split into many components, and each component
> has one or more config files, and those config files end up all over the
> place.  So, when you want to add some shortcut, you have to figure out which
> file it goes in, and what syntax that particular file uses, and so on. 
> Editing things like this in text files is kinda painful IMO, which is why
> you get opinionated stuff like this.

It sounds like maybe what they need is a settings app to control all
of that from one page.

Personally I've got simple requirements. On the default Ubuntu install
I can search for apps with Alt-a, and it usually only takes a letter
or two to find it. For apps I use a lot I'll pin them to my dock so I
can start them with a single click. I feel like any other solution has
to be at least as easy as that, or it won't stick with me.

Walt
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