| ▲ | robinhood 4 days ago |
| The great strength of Omarchy is the fact that they've repackaged every good things from many different projects (arch, hyperland, and many packages) so I can install a fully functional distro with nice defaults, and every hardware working (bluetooth etc...), in less than 3 minutes without any interaction whatsoever. And it just works. Not because of Omarchy per se, but because they scripted the hell out of it so it just works™. It's not magic, but damn it's nice. |
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| ▲ | boxed 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Isn't that just Ubuntu? |
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| ▲ | babypuncher 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The "nice defaults" of Ubuntu and Omarchy cater to completely different audiences | | |
| ▲ | efreak 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Isn't that just tasksel and defaults? Iirc the various Ubuntu flavors each have a package for their default settings... |
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| ▲ | wyclif 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Way, way better than Ubuntu. And it adheres to *NIX philosophy by making all the config editable via text files. | | |
| ▲ | flexagoon 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | What exactly in the UNIX philosophy says configs should be editable via text files? It specifically talks about CLI tools using plaintext for their I/O to allow piping commands - not about configuration. | | |
| ▲ | wyclif 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It's called the "Rule of Textuality", a component of which is: "Store data in flat text files." This principle recognizes that text files are human-readable, easily editable with any text editor, version-controllable, and can be processed by standard UNIX tools. |
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| ▲ | sleepybrett 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | having run ubuntu-server for awhile for my home server.. what config files do i need to edit without a text editor? | |
| ▲ | IshKebab 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | That sounds worse. |
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| ▲ | Perz1val 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, but ubuntu made stupid choices most developers don't agree with | | |
| ▲ | whitepaint 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Like what? | | |
| ▲ | input_sh 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Right now, snap (2016-present). Before that, Unity instead of GNOME (2011-2017), Mir instead of Wayland (2006-2015), Upstart instead of systemd (2013-2017). They always do something custom-made and not adopted by anyone else, only to completely backpedal and go with what everyone else has already been doing. So, even if you like their custom-made solution you'll eventually end up being disappointed. After that, it becomes like a relic that only some frustrated sysadmins like me will have to deal with whenever we interact with some legacy systems, which definitely doesn't help with Ubuntu's overall reputation. | |
| ▲ | slipheen 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The big one for me is moving packages to snap. You can work around it, but that defeats the whole “works out of the box” aspect |
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| ▲ | slightwinder 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How well does it work if I want to move outside the scripted defaults? |
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| ▲ | nextos 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not hard, but it's advisable to eventually set up a parallel blank Arch install where you configure everything from scratch based on things you liked from Omarchy. I think the beauty of this is to get to understand all components in your system, which is quite simple actually. | |
| ▲ | homebrewer 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You're not supposed to with these macOS-like distributions, that's their whole idea, "take it or leave it". | |
| ▲ | xeromal 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Don't. Just use arch if you plan on changing. It's not for you |
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| ▲ | nixosbestos 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Right. Bluetooth notoriously isn't enabled and working out of box on literally every main distro I can think of. /s (and yes, yes it is.) |
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| ▲ | 1oooqooq 4 days ago | parent [-] | | it's one package install tho. did you try to search for Bluetooth on the arch wiki? |
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