Re: [PLUG] Have you tried Omarchy?

If tiling sounds good to you, and Hyprland sounds good to you, but Omarchy doesn’t, I can recommend ML4W, a much more reasonable Hyprland dotfiles setup. Has a few Flatpaks included which do things like centralized settings and config management, fewer nutty defaults, better handling of edited configs on update. It had an AUR package until recently, I’m not sure why it’s missing ATM. I’ve used ML4W off and on for a year or two, and it’s much better behaved than Omarchy IMO. It also supports Fedora and derivatives as well as Arch, and it doesn’t require a fresh install.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:57 Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

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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