I'm giving up on Aerospace

I continue to use both Omarchy and MacOS as my daily computers. Some days I feel like MacOS, and some days I feel like Omarchy.

I really started to enjoy the tiling window manager in Omarchy (Hyprland), and naturally started to put in work trying to make my MacOS take the best bits from it and still keep all the good things I enjoy with MacOS.

But it didn't work.

I've really tried, and given it close to two months daily, but it just feels too "hacky" for lack of a better word.

It's all kinds of janky and frustrating at times, and I can't get the shortcuts set up in a way that feels natural to me because of how Mac uses the CMD key mixed between system-wide shortcuts and app-specific shortcuts. In Omarchy it feels very natural: CMD is only for system-wide operations, whereas CTRL and ALT are app-specific. It feels very natural. But in Mac it all gets blended together and I don't like it.

I've tried everything from a complete adaptation of the Omarchy shortcuts, to a more mac-workaroundy solution, but it all just ends up feeling muddy.

The same goes for JankyBorders and Sketchybar. They are really great apps and they do get you very close. But still, its not quite there for me, and ends up feeling more noisy than helpful.

So now I'm going back to a plain old MacOS setup for a while, and just use Omarchy as intended, and MacOS as intended.

Less time spent fiddling around with configs, which is always a good thing.

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