Omarchy sounds very compelling (though I'm personally done with trying to run Linux on the desktop), but tiling window managers are just not very practical, for numerous reasons. DHH would be wise to also offer and optimize non-tiling WM setups.

Have you tried KDE/plasma6 recently? IMHO, it's better than anything else, including Windows and OS X.

Plasma isn't bad and better than Windows in most respects, but it's kind of the opposite of Omarchy in that it has a trillion toggles and its defaults don't work for many, so a good deal of tweaking is required to make it "cozy".

I'm curious which defaults you find so unusable. I'm rather fiddly and particular, but I haven't done much more to my KDE setup than disable mouse acceleration.

It's less about any specific setting and more that many aren't quite to my taste. It's usable, but getting to a place where I like it takes some time.

I agree, but that seems unlikely given his inclinations. While there's loads of options for distributions that ship with a traditional floating window manager/desktop environment, few have gone the extra mile in holistic design with e.g. unified configuration and eliminating hoop-jumping to the greatest extent possible.

> tiling window managers are just not very practical, for numerous reasons

What reasons? I've been using tilling window managers for years now, and I feel like it's 1995 whenever I need to deal with dragging and maximizing windows.

I agree with the gp. I like some aspects of tiling vms but gave up after a while.

The main pain points for me were

1) I often end up with two windows each taking a side of the screen leaving basically nothing of interest in the centre. So I end up jumping through some tetris-like hoops to make a window be centered.

2) If I close any window all the others move, often causing a repeat of problem 1

3) apps not supporting it properly causing weird graphical glitches

4) some apps should never be small windows, others never large.

Basically I ended up spending more time managing windows with a tiling vm than I ever did before, which eventually outweighed the benefits.

Curious to hear why you think tiling window managers aren't practical.

Hyprland is like half the point of Omarchy (the other half being Arch)

This is why I come to HackerNews. This made my day.

This command solve the problem for me: https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/commands/merge-all/

I have the $20 tier and I'm not seeing it, either.

EDIT: literally saw it just now after refreshing. I guess they didn't roll it out immediately to everyone.

Youtube was about to get destroyed by an avalanche of lawsuits by the TV/movie industry. Without Google's army of lawyers, they would not have lasted.

True. Android might be another example.

But there's also hundreds of examples of the opposite happening: Successful products being bought by a big company and then killed post acquisition.

We probably won't know which camp Pixelmator will fall into for a few years yet.

pipx is still the best tool for standalone utility type of packages: "yt-dlp", "glances" (like htop), etc.

You can, however, use uv for this, e.g., `uvx yt-dlp` works like it would in pipx.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/

This is where uv comes in to save the day.

With Datagrip, you get all the niceties of a JetBrains IDE: massive customization, numerous plugins (e.g. IdeaVim, GitHub Copilot), lots of documentation. But you also get support for countless Db engines - I haven't seen anything yet which wasn't supported. The only one that was half-baked was Redis support, but it's not exactly a Db, either. Most importantly, it's that the UI doesn't feel clunky, unlike with PgAdmin. Everything feels streamlined and 1 or 2 clicks away, at most.

I doubt any new hotness could tear me away from Datagrip. I've used loads of database admin UIs over the years, and Datagrip is by far the most impressive.

I suggest looking into Windows LTSC. It has solved most of the annoyances for me.

You don't need LTSC, you just need Windows Pro versions.

Lots of people bitch and moan about Windows problems that only exist because they buy the cheaper "Home" or whatever license and complain that Microsoft made different product decisions for average users than for people who have bought the explicitly labeled "power user" version.

Remember, the average computer user IS a hostile entity to Microsoft. They will delete System32 and then cry that Windows is so bad! They will turn off all antivirus software and bitch about Windows being insecure. They refuse to update and then get pwned and complain. They blame Microsoft for all the BSODs that were caused by Nvidia's drivers during the Vista era. They will follow a step by step procedure in some random forum from ten years ago that tells them to turn off their entire swap file despite running with lots of RAM and spinning rust and then bitch that Windows is slow.

Don't expect Microsoft to not deal with morons using their software. Buy the Pro versions if you don't want the version meant for morons.

I’m on Enterprise.

I shouldn’t need to spend this much time and energy turning off AI rubbish, bypassing cloud features, or knobbling telemetry and ads because some shitbag at Microsoft decided this was a good way of getting a promotion.

My computer is supposed to work for me, not the other way around.

Windows is only free if you don't value your time, it seems :-)

I prefer IINA on macOS, but it might be because the UI of VLC looks antiquated. Functionality-wise, VLC is superior.