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May be that just means I'm not enough of a tinkerer for these setups.
Is it a hard problem to remember more than one configuration and link them to the displays connected to your computer? Or is it just that Omarchy users really don't mind editing monitor.conf[1] often?
I don't really need it, but maybe my setup is too simple. I set my laptop monitor to auto-right, external display to auto-left and that's it. Set it and forget it for me.
Editing a text file to configure displays is definitely an acquired taste, though. Maybe Omarchy needs some utilities to provide a UI around those config files.
On the occasion when I (dis)connect monitors without restarting the laptop, I just have some command line aliases (home/office/laptop) which run the appropriate config
There are some utilities for this though. nwg-displays comes to mind
I used to have this issue too but was pleasantly surprised I don't have this issue with my new machine using EndeavourOS w/ wayland. I switch displays a couple times per day and it's been fine.
Maybe that just means I am currently at a point in my life where I haven't got the time or energy to play around with these things. I'd rather have KDE Plasma with a hint of tiling window manager than a tiling window manager with a hint of Plasma, if you get what I mean.
The README on this github link does not explain to me why this is necessary, or why someone is doing it.
I recently moved my gaming desktop to CachyOS from Manjaro, but I have no idea what Omarchy is or whether or not I want it, and there's not a single link in the README.
Guess I'll go look it up.
Pretty unconventional...Is this a bad idea?
There's space for both - some people do need password protected separate users, but not all of us do.
Who am I kidding, how many laptops actually sleep or hibernate properly when running Linux anyway...
I mean in this day and age we all agree you need disk encryption (for a least 20 years) but what about SELinux, application sandboxing for example?
Especially for a desktop OS like Omarchy shipped with a bunch of apps and "plugins".
This has been a Linux Desktop weakness for more than a decade (compared to macOS, Windows and Android). App sandboxing is a bit sketchy and hard to get right.
The fact they do not explicitly state their strategy regarding those things make me believe this is a bit amateurish.
- [0] https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/faq/#security--best-p...
- [1] https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/93/security
Omarchy is _just_ a set of scripts to have a nice looking Arch Linux and some helper scripts for day to day tasks. It's not a distribution per se, it doesn't have repositories or packages of its own.
Therefore, your criticism of app sandboxing is more for Arch than Omarchy IMHO.
I've never been an Arch user but deeply respect the project since their wiki as always been my favorite documentation.
From what I understand Arch is very much DIY, non opinionated and you you need to decide and build the security level / strategy that fit your needs. It seems you can go Flatpak, SELinux but only if you want.
I was kind of lurking for an equivalent of SecureBlue in the Arch world, meaning an Arch derived distro with a strong security posture. Allowing me to get started without worrying too much about it.
It's totally right to point out that it's amateurish but it seems unfair to single out an individual project when it's an ecosystem level issue.
Same with selinux/apparmor/competitors, they're all mutually exclusive to some degree and have different pros and cons. RHEL shoves selinux down everyone's throat without caring how well that works in practice, and coincidentally 100% of RHEL systems I've interacted with have it disabled.
Until there's solutions that are mature, the best solution for distros is still to let users choose the lesser evil for their specific use case.
- CachyOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution with built-in performance optimizations tuned to high end computing and gaming. See more at https://cachyos.org
- Omarchy is a Hyprland-based "desktop" crafted by DHH that is slowly turning into its own distribution, also based on Arch. See more at https://omarchy.org
Why would you want to use this instead of vanilla CachyOS?
You want to use Hyprland and want a very strong starting configuration. CachyOS includes its own configuration of Hyprland, but I find it's pretty anemic. There are other pre-packaged Hyprland "spins" to try as well, including MyLinux4Work ands JaKoolit. I've found Omarchy to be the most refined. If you have no interest in Hyprland, neither this script nor Omarchy are for you.
Why would you want to use this instead of vanilla Omarchy?
You prefer CachyOS's defaults and/or enhancements to vanilla Arch, or you do not like all of the out-of-the-box decisions Omarchy makes via its auto-install of Vanilla arch (such as LUKS disk encryption or the enforcement of a single user login.)
Just use archinstall and set up your arch how you want with it. I would usually install Gnome and some other DEs and then just start whichever one I currently feel like using from GDM. My dotfiles already handle all the Hyprland config and are way lighter than Omarchy.
I mean... I get wanting sane defaults but I feel like plain arch already provides that.
