WilliamShakesGibson: “UI is quite customizable, and while not having tried 4.5 yet…”

Shane Smith @shane-smith1de73fee9

I decided to try OMARCHY and it seems pretty good. So far I'm just running the "Try Omarchy" app on my MacBook, but I think I'll try dual-booting it later instead to make the most use of system resources.

Bismark @kojoarhinful1ddfa071a

looks very nice

Shane Smith @shane-smith1d4a43f8c

Yes, it's a very simple UI, and heavily keyboard shortcut driven. I am playing around with it and quickly picking up on what all the shortcuts are meant to be. The browser in the middle is Zen, a fork of Firefox, which I use elsewhere too and installed afterwards (not installed…

Bismark @kojoarhinful1d2057a0c

I’ve wanted to try it but keep putting it off. How customizable is the whole UI, can you easily change it to your taste?

WilliamShakesGibson @WilliamShakesGibson1d

UI is quite customizable, and while not having tried 4.5 yet, it appears in it they expanded beyond using only a tiling window manager via Hyprland (which was offputting to some), and added a more traditional floating desktop mode. Nuno put out a video earlier today on what's coming in 4.6 too.

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Bismark @kojoarhinful1d

Oh ok, really interesting stuff going on there. I saw Nuno share the Try Omarchy project (https://github.com/omacom/try-omarchy) in a reply on someone’s post, but I don’t know if the new stuff coming in Omarchy itself would be part of it, or even already is. Either way, I’m still…

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