I’ll be straight about it: Omunchy is a clone of Omarchy. It’s the same idea, a keyboard-driven tiling Wayland setup where everything is a keypress away, rebuilt to run on much lighter hardware. It isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by the Omarchy project. Why I made it I ran Omarchy on an old Chromebook and … Omunchy a fat free Omarchy clone….
Ran a pacman update today and hit a package conflict related to SceneFX. It turns out SceneFX is now in the main Arch repos, and so is MangoWM. That means I no longer have to build them to ship ArchBang, and we can all simply update via pacman. To my mind this is the first … Some good news….
ArchBang is still very much a one-person, spare-time project — hosting, domain, and the hours that go into keeping it in sync with Arch Linux updates all come out of my own pocket. Recently that’s gotten a bit tighter, so I wanted to flag the ways you can help if ArchBang has been useful to … Not Asking for Millions, Just a Few Coffees…..
Been testing different shells over the past few weeks and finally settled on Noctalia. So ArchBang is switching. What’s a shell? For anyone that doesn’t know, a shell is a graphical layer that adds most of the functions generally outside of the window manager’s control. Sure, some WMs come with bars and other bits, but … ArchBang gets some shell candy…
Quick roundup of what’s been keeping me busy lately. A new iso image has just been uploaded, no major changes other than usual package updates. Themebang has more features added, still work in progress — let me know what you think. Been trying to get the installer more secure and to flow better, never happy … Anyone for Vibe Ricing…..
There’s a particular kind of Linux distro that exists to make a point. Not “here’s a stable base you can build on,” but “here’s how I think you should compute.” Opinionated distros. The ones with a philosophy baked into the package selection before you’ve even opened a terminal. I like them. I build them. ArchBang … Opinionated Distros, and Wobbly Windows
Am just uploading a new release image of ArchBang for Autumn. New look and updated theme. Also shipping 7.2 kernel that was released only a couple of days ago. Have made quite a few changes to installer now comes with auto disk setup for faster installs. Usb device detection should you wish to install to … Finally ArchBang Autumn release…..
Am working towards a Autumn release got a new theme, wallpaper and ironing out features before I build and upload. More than likely it will be early September just to make sure things are right. Did find something I had not seen before when I replaced internal drive on my laptop. ArchBang booted fine it … Upcoming ArchBang release and fixing features…
Omarchy is getting a load of hype lately so I thought I would put my spin on it. The worst thing about Omarchy is you have to install it to even try it out. So it got me thinking why not blend it with some ‘bang goodness and create a true live version you can … Want to try Omarchy live, try out Omunchybang …..
Been watching Omarchy as it is one the most feature rich arch based based distro out there. Not only beautiful to look at, but comes with so many useful features far too many to even begin to share. Biggest downsides are iso image is huge, comes with everything including the kitchen sink and the biggest … Omarchy running as a live iso……
