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This is the dumbest thing i’ve read this month.
Stopped reading after that.
The implicit amount of hate for DHH is almost at tinfoil hat levels.
Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse)
Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty?
If I want in labwc I can drag the window to the side and it snaps to half screen just like windows.
I stick with this set up even with 32GB ram it literally never fails and never has in over a decade.
My guess is hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks
Openbox/labwc looks great out the box without this flailing about.
"if you're new to Linux, skip omarchy..." I've been using linux for 20+ years. I used to spend way too much time ricing my system when I was young. I don't have time for that now. I installed Omarchy, and I like it. "... install a real distribution - not some guy's personal dotfiles." "the entire 'omarchy distribution' amounts to little more than Arch linux" Your own statements contradict each other.
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The DHH haters seem incapable of explaining why they are offended by sponsorship from CloudFlare for a project they do not want to use.
I think they very clearly did explain: they think that money could be better spent
It is understandable to be frustrated at a project without technical merit gaining so much traction when, as in the author's words, "longstanding distros like Debian have struggled with funding and sponsorship for decades". However, I do feel the author fails to come up with any conclusion as to why there is such a disparity between interest in traditional distributions and this rice. I agree that it is almost suspic…
> almost suspicious how quickly it has risen to prominence. I don't think its suspicious at all. I think it filled a long standing need for some subset of current and on-the-fence Linux users of needing and wanting a really opinionated, well put together set of defaults that you don't really get with a vanilla OOTB experience on most distros. The popularity of the various dotfiles repos proves that enough, Omarchy ju…
I wish people were as critical in more relevant areas.
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I was just talking about my experience. I don't think DHH's entire goal was only to help people install Hyprland, it's weird that you're getting this idea.
It is not what I'm saying, of course. I'm saying that if they ended up shipping the house because the house contains their new useful microwave but forget to ship the microwave independently, it is something that should decrease their reputation, it looks silly and amateurish. Of course, I'm not saying that they should solve my problem for me. Simply, they are doing things in a complicated way either uselessly or eit…
"Oh there's a half furnished house. Silly amateur house builder, why they don't just sell microwaves?" ?!
We seem to have arrived at a set of assumptions that states that if a large number of people like something that we don’t, or don’t subscribe to some cultural norms that we doggedly adhere to, then there has to be something sinister afoot. The out of box experience with Omarchy is highly functional, aesthetically pleasing and challenges users to lean more on keyboard shortcuts than they’d typically be used to. That’s…
True! I love it when I buy a computer pre-installed with windows and it has a bunch of extra software bundled in like norton antivirus, dropbox, and opera. Plus the OEM makes money and I get a bunch of free apps. It's a win win. I hope the author of omarchy gets sponsor money for including nordvpn, spotify, and 1password. I love seeing linux become more conventionally attractive and steer in the direction of windows…
Having tried both Omakub and Omarchy I think Omakub is the more interesting approach, and it certainly matches the OP's description - just a set of scripts and defaults applied to a standard Ubuntu. I'd love to see a bunch of similar projects based on slackware, debian, suse or whatever. I think most current distros/DE's dump "everything and the kitchen sink" at the user leaving him or her to finish the setup themsel…
What's missing from standard Ubuntu? I recently did a fresh install and it seems finished to me
Do you use gnome-photos or shotwell, and does the system tell you how to use either? Do you use rythmbox or gnome-music - or for that matter, do you use KDE, xkcd, budgie, cinnamon or MATE?
Does the software installation show you how to install HAM-radio tools in the same UI as where you install Spotify or Chrome? Does changing the theme also change the terminal theme? Browser theme? Are useful tools like localsend included by default?
I haven't used Ubuntu "proper" in years, so all of my questions may be outdated, but Omakub certainly felt like a breath of fresh air when I tried it. It really felt like a big step forward for attention to detail compared to any other linux distro I have tried.
Not perfect by any means, but still, I think the "proper" distros should take some inspiration from it.