Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote on 2025-09-24 00:28:
And then I came across Omarchy <https://omarchy.org/>.
Any experiences with Arch, Hyprland or Omarchy are greatly appreciated.
I tried Manjaro way back in the day, probably when Unity came out on Ubuntu 10.xx or so. Manjaro because I wasn't keen at the time on bootstrapping an Arch system as no "live boot" method was available. I wonder if that's changed? I really liked the `pacman` package manager. Worth noting that the Steam Deck is built on Arch and KDE Linux is moving to Arch (and is going to be the official KDE, so no more KDEneon). Seems like it's getting a lot of attention lately and that's a vote of confidence in my book.
I encourage readers here to at least have a look at it, described in loving detail by its creator in this YouTube video <https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHY0AEd2Uw>.
I did watch some of the video, Omarchy looks quite nice. I could see myself trying out a tiling window manager - maybe - someday. Might dip my toes in the tiling features already built into KDE's kwin first. At the risk of going off-topic ****************************** At the risk of going off-topic, that guy who posted the video, David Heinemeier Hansson, is a recognizable name. He's the guy behind Ruby. He's also been in the news because a week ago he published a controversial post that might be worth mentioning here:
As I remember London
London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.
Some people might be uncomfortable associating with DHH after that. https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
So after all that preamble ... my question is here, for anyone who has ever run Arch: Outside of the software-release and installation systems, is there anything significant that I would need to consider if switching?
Only thing I can think of is that installation procedure, and my knowledge of it might be way out of date. Back on-topic *************
If Omarchy is the killer app that I think it is, I might just try it, which means leaving Fedora after less than a year.
It looks quite nice and further tempts me into tiling. If I were to go that way, I think I'd stick to Hyprland to give me the choice of underlying distro though. That and the DHH post being highly sympathetic to "Tommy Robinson" makes me hesitant to touch anything he's involved with at this time. Not in a mood to be very forgiving of that stuff these days. YMMV!