ArchBang Linux

Am away over weekend for a short break, normal service will resume early next week. Have a great weekend 😉 Stay safe….

Opinionated Linux distros aren’t new. ArchBang has been shipping a minimal Arch system with sensible defaults for over fifteen years, and it was never the only one. So when Omarchy arrived, the “beautiful desktop, decisions already made” pitch didn’t impress me much. I’d been doing that for years. What did catch my attention was something … Omunchy: I Reverse Agent Engineered Omarchy

I have build and uploaded a new ArchBang image, mostly package updates. Mango 0.18.0 has config changes that may break older versions. If you are having problems with config then follow this link to Mango Website Site Have checked and run mentioned migration script and worked fine. Basically things like exec-once have gone to exec_once. … Iso update and new Mango version updates…

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…..