Omarchy - The Best Tiling Window Setup Ever?

This is just kind of ridiculous. I gotta say Omar G is you can tell a complete passion project. Just this is a screen saver playing in the background right now for this arch install script of Omari. Um I'm impressed. I'm very impressed by what DHH set up here. Now I do disagree with a lot of his sensibilities, but uh the nice thing is you can just change them. And I wanted to also make the install a lot easier as it starts to mature more. I'm starting to go, okay, I get it. But there's some things I would change. And I think how DHH set this up, uh, which Archie, I think just means like, hey, you prepare what the chef made you kind of thing. And Archie is for Arch Linux. Well, it wouldn't be me if I didn't change things. So, we're gonna get out of this really fancy screen saver that is ridiculous and pretty cool, you know? I mean, I gotta my hats off to him. What a passion project. So, let's let's just see what it looks like. This is the arch tiling setup. But what I love most about it is it has a whole host of menus and stuff you can go into. You can learn specifically, hey, what are the all the key bindings? You can easily go into there. You have the wiki that will be pulled up here. You can see the entire manual so you can blow through it. This is insane. Like, uh, I've never seen like most desktop environments, most full-blown companybacked distributions in Linux don't have this type of documentation. This is the first tiling window manager I think I've ever seen that actually helps the user along and doesn't just say go read the effing manual when most of it's just like cobbled together and you have to like read between the lines type of thing. This everything kind of just intuitively made sense. I never even have read the manual and I'm just like blown away that this is all right here. Uh but not even needed really. You could just kind of come in here and pop this up, hit learn, and then just go through each one. And you have all these manuals right here to reference. Uh, but I I really haven't needed to. Now, the setup style of Omari was a little bit more problematic when I did it on live stream because this is an existing install. So, Omari is really meant for a fresh install, but you know, you can hack around and get it. and I wanted to see kind of how it was structured so I could improve it because that's what every Linux user does. I probably will start doing PRs directly to Omar uh and it's on their official base camp repo but I wanted to first do one thing for you and that is the Linux utility expanded to a margie. Let's say you're in a new system. You can actually just go curl and do a a fizzle fs lowerase capital slitus.com/lininux and then pipe it to sh. I like to do all my scripts in postix compliance. Uh but uh omarie is bash. So you will probably need to be in bash when you launch this which is fine. That's what the default Arch one is. So if you're installing from arch that's fine. Uh so you launch that you come into here you do arch server setup. So, Omar Archi usually walks you through kind of the Arch install, and Arch install is fine. And if you want more granular control, that's probably what you want to do. But the server setup just chooses all the features for you for the most part, and just says, "Hey, what's your username and password?" And then just kicks you onto the desktop or well, I should say the the server login. So, this server setup is takes about uh 120 seconds. I've done various videos. I I'll link them down below and you can look at that if you need guidance. But for the most part, just click this. It'll launch the entire uh Arch setup and and then it would go. Now, about the sensibilities of DHH, you'll notice my bash prompt or my terminal looks way different than the stock Omar. The stock Omarie is DHH likes just an arrow with not telling you where the path is, not telling you the user logged in, not telling you the machine. Uh the the only thing he shows is on the top right of here, like let's say you're in a directory. Let's go to like GitHub uh GitHub. It would show like in the top right title bar sometimes. But I really didn't like this because I was just like, hey, where am I in my system? I was kindly constantly doing pwd and I was like ah I don't like this. So I was just like I'm just going to install my bash prompt. So again what I ended up doing was just saying you know what I want my elacrity. So I would just go you know what install my elacrity get those configs back. I was like okay great uh my bash prompt. I like my custom bash prompt too. Boom installed good to go. So, this removed his customizations for elacrity and also the bash prompt because he uses, I think, like some kind of really fancy like $1,500 Mac monitor. And me being a traditional Linux user, I have this piece of crap $60 Fire Legend monitor from Amazon. And uh yeah, I need bigger font. I need to see the pixels. So maybe one day I'll get a decent uh monitor. But as far as the actual Omari setup, it's really cool. So you can access this menu by just clicking it or you can go uh start alt space and then enter here. So then you can get this entire setup. So then you can change like the entire theme just in a go and say okay now we're Tokyo night or you know my favorite is obviously going to be Nord. It's just like my tried andrue. You also have the toggles at the start of it. I showed you the screen saver and he created a whole screen saver which is so cool. Overrides honestly on the startup reboot uh instead of seeing the the post messages which honestly I probably prefer but instead you get the Omari logo uh old school. So you gotta love the flare man. You don't see someone with artistic design capabilities in Linux very often and it's kind of a treat when you do. So that's why I kind of really love this. All of this at your beck and call. I thought it was really interesting how he did his audio. This right here um is like a a customized pau. So you can actually switch back and forth which uh I thought was really cool how he did it. Personally though, I mean a lot of times what I'll end up doing is doing a start space to pull up his app launcher. This is called Walker instead of like Roie, Wolfie, these other ones that are used a lot in Wayland. Uh I like his app launcher better than all of those by far. It's just simple, easy, straight, and to the point. So let's say I want a Pavu Control. This is what I'm used to. So usually in Pavu Control, I come in here. I I like to disable like things I wouldn't use. If there's HDMI outputs, I'll usually click these and go, you know what, I want to make sure we're not using that and I'll just switch them off. Uh that just makes my audio system a little bit better. Or if I'm switching like the output to be sent somewhere differently. Um let's say I'm on Chrome playing something, I might switch that output to a different out. Uh but I I do a little bit different and a little more complex audio routing than most. Most people will like his just setup here, which is great. And all of the sensibilities of this makes uh tiling window manager very easy. I didn't even read the manual and immediately I was just like, "Oh, I've used this. This felt very at home, very easy." And probably one other thing I love to show is the setup portion under configs. Like when you click these things, you can edit them directly and change them. So like hyperlands configs, we can just take this and edit all of them and go, "Oh, I see what he's doing here." Now, I am making a project specifically for my customizations to Omari. But what I wanted to make sure we did was honor DHH in the way that I never wanted to overwrite his defaults. Meaning, I'm not changing his project at all. So I usually come into Omari and you can come in here. Let's say he updates it today. I would do a get pull. It would grab his changes and everything would be right with the world. But I wanted different key bindings. So what I did, I made Omar Titus that sits on top of it. Now this is referenced uh to the hyper. So essentially this is inconfig hyper and all these files you see here are referenced in the official Omar config. All of these files are just pushed or sim linked here. The idea was during the set up this link, it would set that link up and then it would grab any of my changes. But you don't necessarily have to do this. Let's say you want to make your own omarky spin. What you do is just come into the hyper. And probably the biggest thing is like the bindings. I he did choose some like weird bindings like posting on X or Twitter uh with a hotkey which he's huge into that and I'm just not really. So I'm just like meh. Not my not my jam. So, I rebound that to terminal. Um, I added like E, super E for file manager. I think he had that rebound to something else. Uh, he had like Spotify and a few other things that I wanted to just get rid of. So, that's exactly what I did. I also added this super Q for quit window, the default super W. I like super Q better. Uh, super return for terminal execution. Um, I also added Super X. Instead of launching Twitter, I wanted to just launch terminal. You know, those are just some simple things. Things that I like kind of though was his execution of web apps. So, let's say I wanted to look up something um on chat GPT. That's just done with that. So, I was like, "Oh, that's kind of cool." So, very neat how all that is done. And then if you customize anything, it'll auto relaunch like Wayey Bar. Just so many easy things done here. I can't really say much more than this. You need to try it. And I wanted to give you guys an easy way of doing it. Just use my Linux utility, install Arch Server Setup, install Omari, and off you go. And if you want my bash setup instead of his minimal bash setup, switch that around. If you want, you know, my neoim instead of his, switch that around. But even more so, you can see how I'm kind of pancaking on top of Omari and doing these customizations instead of just accepting what he's uh put forth. I think this is a fantastic base. And then if you just want to switch a few bindings, you just want to switch a few things and configs around to make it your own, it's a great experience and it feels oh chef's kiss just fantastic. So great job DHH. I am super pumped about this. this. I'm going to be live streaming it over on Twitch. Thank you everybody for the YouTube members, Twitch subscribers, uh, and Patreons because my goodness, without you guys, I couldn't do fun like this. And I just love y'all. So, have a great one and I'll see you in the next

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