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#112This article is from June 26th. The real news is that Omarchy 2.0 has just been released, as well as an Omarchy distribution ISO based on Arch. Installation is fairly quick (~5 minutes on a fresh machine), given you have bandwidth. https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/releases/tag/v2.0.0 Here is the updated Omarchy Manual to get a good feel for things: https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual
I've been seeing a lot of people setting it up on old macbook pros.. and think I'll do the same
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#113For mac users interested in tiling (ish) managers, but not willing to make the leap DHH made, I highly recommend the Magnet app, which gets me most of the goodness he is demoing in the first part here ... (and maybe a little more?)
I would also like to recommend Aerospace which is closer to i3 on Linux: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
Aerospace is great, but macos is not, and unfortunately, there are enough immutable things (given the discussions in the GH issues around them in the Aerospace repo) about macos' walled garden/closed approach that annoyed me/got in my way enough after a few weeks of using it that I have concluded (for myself/my purposes at least) that macos is not tiling/custom WM workable now or in the forseeable future.
How Aerospace (and others) degrade under heavier system load, etc (again, not b/c they are poorly written, but b/c macos inherently does not want these kinds of packages to even exist and makes things very hard to say the least, if not impossible, requiring some very awkward gymnastics) made this incredibly frustrating at the worst possible times.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm beginning to really like scrolling window managers. It's optimized for minimal splits (let's say 2-3 windows) per view but it makes it effortless to flip between apps. Floating windows is also an option and making any of them full screen is available too. Imagine tiling a bunch of pieces of paper on your floor and now you want to focus on a few of them at a time. That's basically what a scrolling window manager a…
Happy niri user checking in. Hard to imagine going back to a non-scrolling wm. Niri also has a decent config and builtins like screenshotting too.
Yep. It keeps getting better. I was recently in the market for a new laptop, and Niri is partly why I didn’t buy a MacBook. It’s hard for me to imagine going back to osx.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows still has advantages for certain use cases, as much as I want to like Hyprland for everything. For example, imagine this screencast recording set up: - You have a 4k monitor - You only want to record a 1920x1080 section of your screen (OBS can do this in both set ups) - You only want certain windows to appear in that 1920x1080 zone - You want other adhoc windows (notepad, etc.) floating around that recording…
I'm probably not thinking about your use case the same way you are, but it seems like you could run a nested hyprland session in a 1920x1080 window and screenshare just the nested hyprland window. Run the apps you want to share inside that nested hyprland session. I don't know of any reason that wouldn't work, but I haven't tried it so I'm not certain it would.
Yep. I’ve done this with Niri, too. It’s a really nice capability.
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I mean, your comment doesn’t exactly sound non-whiney.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm beginning to really like scrolling window managers. It's optimized for minimal splits (let's say 2-3 windows) per view but it makes it effortless to flip between apps. Floating windows is also an option and making any of them full screen is available too. Imagine tiling a bunch of pieces of paper on your floor and now you want to focus on a few of them at a time. That's basically what a scrolling window manager a…
Happy niri user checking in. Hard to imagine going back to a non-scrolling wm. Niri also has a decent config and builtins like screenshotting too.
Indeed, although I find hyprshot + satty a pretty good combo. It's almost as good as Flameshot.
I think it's really important to be able to take a region, specific window or full display screenshot with an ability to annotate afterwards and then also have an option to save to disk or copy to clipboard depending on what you want to do for that screenshot.
Flameshot was ideal because it lets you adjust the region size while also having the annotation controls at the same time. All of these other solutions don't let you adjust the region during annotation time since you're piping the image data into a different annotation tool.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm probably not thinking about your use case the same way you are, but it seems like you could run a nested hyprland session in a 1920x1080 window and screenshare just the nested hyprland window. Run the apps you want to share inside that nested hyprland session. I don't know of any reason that wouldn't work, but I haven't tried it so I'm not certain it would.
Yep. I’ve done this with Niri, too. It’s a really nice capability.
How did you end up managing things like waybar?
You'd end up with 2 copies of it running and you typically killall/pkill to reload it because it's expected you'd only run 1 copy but now with this nested solution there's 2 copies running.
The only thing really stopping me from Niri is it doesn't seem to have dynamic configs to let you have 1 main config and then source in a smaller 2nd config to overwrite settings in the main config.
That's really useful for having personalized changes per device or overwriting specific colors to change themes.
Hyprland has a `source` feature for this.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear Hyprland second only to Gnome in the NixOS world (where it's arguably easier to try different desktop environments compared to e.g. Ubuntu). Now it could just be that Hyprland users are more vocal than XFCE or plasma users, so it's not definitive, but it definitely has "buzz"
That's... surprising. GNOME and Nix has very contrasting philosophies. Anyways, Hyprland is primarily driven by the Arch side of things, considering that: * there are way more Arch users than Nix users * Arch is much more trendy amongst non-developer/Linux users. * Arch is easier to setup and use - less friction * Arch is more popular in the unixporn reddit/YouTube world, which is where Hyprland gained much of its po…
1. GNOME is the 800lb gorilla of linux DEs, so I would be surprised if it weren't the most common DE on any distro that doesn't default to something else.
2. I didn't mean to imply that Hyperland is driven by NixOS (NixOS is niche enough I doubt it drives anything); just that it seems to have hype on NixOS. I use NixOS, I'm semi-active in the NixOS community, and I regularly interact with NixOS users. I don't regularly interact with anybody that uses Arch, so why would I comment on the Arch community?
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#120First page explaining Omacom:
It's the idea that most people don't actually know what they want, at least not at first.
Several pages after:
Making a choice # I built Omakub when I first switched to Linux. I ran it as my daily driver for over a year. It's an excellent choice for anyone making the switch from Windows or Mac for the first time. But today I run Omarchy. It's not as familiar, it's more of an acquired taste, but boy, when you acquire the taste for tiling window managers, it's hard to go back to using the mouse to drag windows around. The whole system just flows through your fingertips!
Why? You just killed the whole omakase concept