Can Omarchy be used in a more Windows-like fashion?

[river berry]

I am fed up with Windows, for plenty of obvious reasons. I just installed Omarchy dual boot and like it in general for how it gets you quickly up and running for software development. But, I don't foresee me ever liking/understanding Hyprland.

The tiles don't make any sense to me on a small laptop screen, I cant figure out how to do basic things like move the tiles around, resize them, snap them to sides etc... - all things I could do in a few key presses in windows. And when I change windows from tiled floating, they just seem to perpetually be floating on top of each other rather than bringing the active one to the front.

Moreover, the lack of any sort of dock/drawer to show what apps are open in the current workspace, as well as lack of window previews when you Alt+Tab makes me continually guessing as to what I have in the current, let alone all, workspaces.

I'm sure that all of this can be fixed with configurations and learning, but I'm just not interested. I'd love for it to look and behave like Windows, and even seemingly like Ubuntu, and I presume Mac as well (never owned a mac).

I have to figure that I'm not alone with all of this. Are there any simple ways to implement something like this? If not, I think i'll have to explore other distros.

Thanks!

[brittle juniper]

It sounds like what you want is Omakub instead of Omarchy

Omarchy is specifically tiling window manager based and if you're looking for that classic desktop environment; it's not the place.

I'd recommend giving Omakub a go

[river berry]

ok, thanks! That may very well be the case. Are there any other major differences between them, beyond tiling and arch vs ubuntu?

[brittle juniper]

That's really the gist

There are definitely a lot of differences and they're really on the same in principles and being linux

[river berry]

Thanks very much. I'll try to install omakub on a bootable usb of ubuntu for now, just to see if I like it.

I'll also try PopOS, which recently released a new 24.04 beta version with their own custom desktop environment COSMIC. It looks PERFECT to me - tiled and floating windows are both first class citizens, has taskbar/dock, alt+tab previews, drag and drop, resize and more.

It seems to work on any linux OS, including arch. All their distros https://system76.com/cosmic/download

This video does a nice job introducing it (on arch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oChh1XN5xM

I hope its ok that I am sharing this here. Surely other people will be in a similar situation as me and might appreciate finding it.