Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS

I skipped through the 38 minutes and landed on like 8 instances were he was switching themes/wallpaper and 4 showing of bash scripts that opens a webpage. It looks like all the fluxbox/openbox themed minimal desktops in the 2000s - function follows form. Feels really performative.

DHH switched from Mac to Linux and is in the process of experimenting with his setup, but since he's famous within tech, it's getting a lot of attention. There's really nothing special about it.

I mean.. that vscode-like command palette for system actions incl updating, installing and removing packages looks rather nifty

Haven't "launchers" existed for decades at this point though? I remember Crunchbang (RIP) having something similar for example, and that must have been almost two decades ago at this point.

There are a lot of them yeah.

In this case, Walker is the launcher being used in Omarchy, https://github.com/abenz1267/walker. It's not specific to Omarchy.

One of Walker's features is being able to create your own custom menus quite easily with shell scripts.

Its basically LARBS or an autoricing script. But its happening in kind of a cultural moment where Linux gaming is good enough and Windows is bad enough for people to see ricing and say "I want that!"

I think it is function follows form, but it turns out a lot of people actually want that.

Not to mention - if you're coming from Windows or MacOS and you've never had real tiling before, you could install a bunch of goofy electron launchers or whatever and still get form improvements.

I'm not a Rails guy, so I've always kind of thought their scaffolding system was a little silly. It's going to autogenerate a config and then I also have to edit it?

But I'm coming to terms with the idea that there is actually tremendous value to lowering the barrier to entry as much as possible, and providing scaffolding for people to learn along the way

I had the same thought.

They made a "micro fork" of chrome to support having it auto update to the system theme.

That's... Dedication. I guess. But it's dedication at the wrong spot for my tastes.

And having to hear him recall those forced keyboard commands just makes me itchy. Here you hit space to select, over there it's "d" for default. Here it's enter, this menu is actually vim, so it's !wq here...

Want to configure those monitors? Just come edit this file! Bleh. Hope you know the name of the things you want to touch!

Some of the dev tool suggestions are fine, but those are all standalone tools (mise, yay, lazy docker, etc).

Basically: I'm glad there's space for people to do this. It's not my cup of tea.

To much attention to things I don't care about. Too much magic in the things I do. Too much crap that's entirely specific to this guy (who the fuck wants a default top level hot key for opening Twitter. It's not me, that's for sure).