Omarchy isn’t for me, but for those who find a minimal tiled Linux desktop interesting but don’t want to get lost in the jungle setting their own thing up, I don’t think you can possibly do better. It’s throughly thought through, polished, streamlined, and designed specifically to be accessible to newcomers.

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zeppelin101 4 days ago | parent [-]

Omarchy sounds very compelling (though I'm personally done with trying to run Linux on the desktop), but tiling window managers are just not very practical, for numerous reasons. DHH would be wise to also offer and optimize non-tiling WM setups.

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thomastjeffery 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Have you tried KDE/plasma6 recently? IMHO, it's better than anything else, including Windows and OS X.

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cosmic_cheese 4 days ago | parent [-]

Plasma isn't bad and better than Windows in most respects, but it's kind of the opposite of Omarchy in that it has a trillion toggles and its defaults don't work for many, so a good deal of tweaking is required to make it "cozy".

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thomastjeffery 4 days ago | parent [-]

I'm curious which defaults you find so unusable. I'm rather fiddly and particular, but I haven't done much more to my KDE setup than disable mouse acceleration.

	▲	cosmic_cheese 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's less about any specific setting and more that many aren't quite to my taste. It's usable, but getting to a place where I like it takes some time.

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cosmic_cheese 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree, but that seems unlikely given his inclinations. While there's loads of options for distributions that ship with a traditional floating window manager/desktop environment, few have gone the extra mile in holistic design with e.g. unified configuration and eliminating hoop-jumping to the greatest extent possible.

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yoavm 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> tiling window managers are just not very practical, for numerous reasons

What reasons? I've been using tilling window managers for years now, and I feel like it's 1995 whenever I need to deal with dragging and maximizing windows.

	▲	Kon5ole 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with the gp. I like some aspects of tiling vms but gave up after a while. The main pain points for me were 1) I often end up with two windows each taking a side of the screen leaving basically nothing of interest in the centre. So I end up jumping through some tetris-like hoops to make a window be centered. 2) If I close any window all the others move, often causing a repeat of problem 1 3) apps not supporting it properly causing weird graphical glitches 4) some apps should never be small windows, others never large. Basically I ended up spending more time managing windows with a tiling vm than I ever did before, which eventually outweighed the benefits.

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pythonaut_16 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious to hear why you think tiling window managers aren't practical.

Hyprland is like half the point of Omarchy (the other half being Arch)