I was almost ready to install Omarchy.
The workflow looked great. Keyboard-first, fast workspaces, tiling, minimal mouse usage — pretty much how I wanted to use my computer.
But I stopped before switching.
I'm generally becoming more skeptical when a project or ecosystem starts getting surrounded by heavy marketing and Big Tech money or influence. That doesn't automatically make the software bad. It just makes me want to look twice before jumping onto the next hyped thing.
Then I had a much simpler thought:
Why replace Linux Mint when I already like Linux Mint?
So I started stealing the parts of the Omarchy workflow that I actually wanted.
My setup
The biggest change was workspaces.
Super + 1…9 → switch workspace
Super + Shift + 1…9 → move the current window there
This is probably the change that made Mint feel the most different.
For windows:
Super + F → fullscreen
Ctrl + Super + ← → ↑ ↓ → tile the window
And:
Super + Enter → terminal
Inside Brave, I use its keyboard shortcuts heavily too — switching tabs, closing tabs, reopening them, jumping to the address bar, etc.
That's basically it.
No massive customization project. No need to make Cinnamon look exactly like Hyprland. I just wanted the workflow.
And surprisingly, that was enough.
A small Doikayt connection
learn more here -> https://doikayt.org
This is also why I find the idea behind Doikayt interesting.
Technological independence doesn't have to mean constantly finding a new platform to depend on.
Sometimes it's much simpler:
Keep what works. Take what you like. Change what you don't.
Instead of changing my entire operating system because somebody built a workflow I liked, I made that workflow work on my existing system.
Maybe that's a small form of de-big-techifying too.
Not chasing the next ecosystem.
Just making your computer yours.
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