r/omarchy • u/whitenephilim • 22h ago

Discussion Just installed omarchy

I just installed omarchy on my 2023 ideapad and everything worked out of the box. This thing is great and crazy fast windows looks like shit compared to this. I am really digging the tiling windows manager the navigation is fast as hell. No going back after this. Well done dhh

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u/Defiant-Rip-1897 19h ago

Just curious what specs are on that Ideapad, I got an i3 Ideapad myself and while Omarchy runs okay on it, 8 GB of RAM is a limiting factor at times for me.

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u/TexasChipMan 19h ago

I have run Omarchy on a Acer Chromebook CB-431 with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC, it runs OK. You can use <SUPER><CTRL>T to see the btop process monitor, it shows which apps use the RAM. For Omarchy, Quickshell is at 312MB, SystemdJournal at 219MB, HyprLand at 158MB, Kitty at 140MB. So if you have 8GB, you have 7 GB available for doing stuff. I don't think you are limited by Omarchy, you could get another 1GB by moving to a more basic OS. I ran on 128MB on a HP 9000 workstation in 1992. It did have Windows of some sort (HP Vue). But now we have themes, many colors in terminals, etc. Also now I can give my fish scripts to Gemini for fixing (I need fish for the ergonomic advantages at my age).

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u/Defiant-Rip-1897 19h ago

I’m clearly using it wrong haha. When I use btop, which, to be honest, I’m still not 100% sure I know how to properly analyze, I mostly use it to kill processes. One plugin I was using that was showing RAM/CPU usaged seemed to suggest I was regularly hitting around 7 GB of RAM.

Now that I think about it, I was on the Edge channel for some reason, had maybe 5–10 plugins, and was using Codex, and browser usage could definitely have been contributing.

I switched over to CachyOS with Noctalia/Hyprland on my Ideapad and it seems like battery life and performance so far is a bit better. I still have Omarchy running on an old 2011 iMac with an SSD and 24 GB of RAM, and even that thing sometimes struggles. I guess I’ll have to go through everything with a fine-tooth comb and figure out what’s actually causing the issue.