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kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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bazzite
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
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container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
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hyprmon
TUI monitor configuration tool for Hyprland with visual layout, drag-and-drop, and profile management
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omarchy-on-cachyos
Installation script for DHH's Omarchy on top of CachyOS. (Read the README.md before proceeding!)
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tilingshell
Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more.
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Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro
I agree with the author's general sentiment, but I would give Omarchy credit for some design features that I find either really innovative or well executed.
I find the launch menu the most interesting I've seen out of any desktop environment / OS. It puts easy access to your apps front and center and above esthetics, and yet it still looks great. It's not a sane request, but I'd love to be able to swap the launcher/start menu in another DE for a fully customizable version of that.
Omarchy also has a very smooth way to 'install' web apps. There exist packages that do that for you, but I've tested several and wouldn't recommend any of them. They're bloated (this should really only be a couple lines of bash, like Omarchy's [0]), some use web views (I really want an actual browser under the hood so I can have my extensions), and all that I've tested leave litter on your machine after removing apps or the software. I find web apps as .desktop files so useful that I'm actually using a hacky DIY script now (which I'm considering releasing under GPL if I ever find time to clean it up).
Also, whether you're a beginner or a pro, having a sane starting config for Hyprland is just convenient. Which tells you something about it imho. My conclusion would be similar to the OP's, if you're Omarchy-curious, try Cosmic on your distro of choice. Or at least a cleaned up version with the most egregious personal preferences (like a global keybind for opening Twitter/X) removed, if anybody cares to maintain that.
[0] https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/dev/bin/omarchy-web...
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McLovin: the cross-platform link router
On Mac I used Finicky. I switched to Linux with Omarchy almost a year ago and went looking for an equivalent. Junction only asks every time, mimi doesn't carry routing rules. The remaining path was "build your own", and I did. It worked well, with a TUI that paired nicely with Omarchy. Then I thought: this should be a built-in feature on every OS, the same way each OS has a rule for which app opens PDFs. So I decided to do McLovin the right way: a cross-platform router, configurable by anyone, with a browser picker when nothing matches and rules to send every link to the right place.
- [PT-BR] McLovin: o roteador de links multiplataforma
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Why I traded my custom "Opinionated Linux" for Omarchy
About hardware: it runs well even on older machines. Several old Intel Macs that had been sitting in drawers are back in action running Omarchy. Some hardware takes more work to configure, but the community on the project's Discord and GitHub has usually been there before and helps you sort it out.
- [PT-BR] Por que troquei meu "Opinionated Linux" autoral (DIY) pelo Omarchy
- Omarchy 3.4.0
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Omarcacca
Omarchy looked amazing, it had some rough edges but had everything I needed, and it was flying.
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Is Omarchy Any Good...?
In case you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard the buzz about Omarcy Linux (the new-ish Linux distro that is the brainchild of 37signals co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson). I've been slowly rolling it out across my home systems, and blogging as I go.
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2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
Timely! I just re-setup my Pi5 with the help of Claude. https://github.com/kaihendry/ai-pi
Tbh I did the mistake of throwing away Ansible, so testing my setup was a pain!
Since with AI, the focus should be on testing, perhaps it's sensible to drop Ansible for something like https://github.com/goss-org/goss
Things are happening so fast, I was impressed to see a Linux distro embrace using a SKILL.md! https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/default/omar...
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Emacs Is My New Window Manager
you can do the same with https://omarchy.org/
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