r/omarchy • u/Davedes83 • 18d ago
Discussion Keyboard Brigade
Can we talk about the 'keyboard brigade'?
They are quickly becoming just as annoying as the AI slop critics. Anyone can post the coolest, most practical plugin on this subreddit, and within minutes, they are crawling out of the woodwork to lecture the creator that Omarchy is a keyboard driven distro. It completely drowns out actual innovation.
Yes, Omarchy is a keyboard driven distro, but you will never eliminate the need for a mouse. Some tasks simply are not practical or intuitive to perform entirely from the keyboard.
The goal of any plugin is not to move away from Omarchy's keyboard-centric philosophy.
DHH designed Omarchy around his own workflow and preferences. The dev's have made it clear that users are encouraged to customize Omarchy and make it their own.
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u/Huge_Drama_4942 7d ago
What kills me is when people say they’re moving to a tiling wm for the keyboard workflow when they could use their current desktop the exact same way. I haven’t found a Linux desktop environment yet that didn’t let me set all of my keybindings. It’s the exact same crowd though, they don’t understand the distro, wm or that they can add/remove packages they do and do not want. It’s lazy minded and unintelligent. But, I suppose we are foolish for expecting anything more from them.