and we wonder why does arch have DDOS problems
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Omarchy.. the new hype.. especially for youtubers..
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Next time I buy some new hardware I might give this one a try. I tried installing Hyprland a while back, and despite its many attractions I lasted three hours before switching back to KDE. I like customising my system, but the amount of work required to bring Hyprland to a half-way usable starte was too much for me. I think I spent half an hour trying to figure out how to set my locale to Ireland (there being little in the way of documentation for my oft-overlooked country).
A Hyprland system with sane defaults might make me reconsider it. It certainly seemed like it had a lot going for it!
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i only update when i reboot or shutdown, and only when i remember too, so ranges from once a week to once a month lol.
I do this so updates that require restart like kernel or drivers won’t cause me any issues from me not restarting.
You will not find hyprland with sane defaults, hyprland is for tinkering. If you want sane defaults use kde or lxqt
Personally, I prefer “insanity” to anything “sane” in any fields and in any matters that someone else has decided. 
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At the end, me too, succumbed to the “HHHYYYYPE”
I just ran the bash script on top a minimal Arch.
No ISO, no entire disk (encryption)…
I guess I’ll be keeping it around for more than 3 minutes before I switch back to Linux 
Joking aside, at least, for a tiling wm uninitiated user like myself, this can be an opportunity to look under the hood of Hyprland and the dotfiles without having to set up and configure everything by myself.
Once I can find my way around the dotfiles, I think I’ll set up my own from scratch.
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@cactux Be interesting to hear your thoughts on Omarchy vs. ML4W Starter. For a one-man show, Stephan Raabe has done excellent work with ML4W and making Hyprland available to larger audiences. He structured the dotfiles with enough abstraction so anyone could modify them fairly easily.
But I’m a simple cat, with simple needs. No need for gradient window frames, blurring, animations, ricing of any sort. I still found Hyprland to be too much for my needs. Too many dotfiles, too many options. In general it’s like Hyprland wants to be KDE Plasma when it grows up, the only distinction tiling WM vs. dynamic WM.
So I went back to i3, then moved to Sway so as to build in forward-compatibility as Wayland becomes ubiquitous. Sway has its own issues that slow it down from being adopted broadly**, but for now I’m able to get work done AND tinker around without crashing things too badly.
**As I age I find that philosophical underpinnings weigh a bit more as a factor to consider. Hyprland has a whiff of edgelord about it, whilst Sway holds a forever grudge against Nvidia to its detriment. I’m so grateful that Endeavour sticks to a pragmatic middle ground.
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I’ll gladly do so but that may take a while. Hyprland, specifically, and tiling windows managers in general are uncharted territories for me. Instead of a bare-metal install, perhaps I should do a VM install of basic arch plus Omarchy install script to be able to run it on my daily driver. That would give me more occasions to interact with it.
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A detailed (and harsh) assessment of Omarchy (with a tl;dr summary).
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I’ve tried it (and found I really didn’t like it)…so I actually look fwd to what the review piece says 
Edit: Yep, it’s as opinionated as Omarchy is, and probably not wrong 
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Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer, utterly captivated by all the cool things that Linux can do , but lacking the architectural knowledge to get the basics right, and the experience to give each tool a thoughtful review.
Exactly my same impression
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That’s rookie therapy man I am writing this from an LFS build. Update? What’s update?