Omarchy

Their wordsWhat's really important is that if you get a new computer, a new laptop, you get one with an Intel Panther Lake chip. That is the revelation that um just leaped in the Intel side forward. Intel has finally matched Apple on efficiency in terms of uh power usage

Their wordsanyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.

Their wordsIt's crazy that it took me more than thirty years to realize this, but while I spent time in Apple's walled garden, the free software alternative simply grew better, stronger, and faster. The Linux of 2025 is not the Linux of the 90s or the 00s or even the 10s. It's shockingly more polished, capable, and beautiful.

Their wordsSo, it shouldn't really startle me or surprise me that Linux is able to create a not just competitive but superior desktop experience to something like the Mac in a whole host of areas. Not in all of them.

Their wordsI don't know when we'll literally get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop", but I've never been as convinced that its coming as I am now. There's enough dissent in the water. Enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.

Their wordsdo you know what is a differentiating experience if you if you run Linux and that's just a virtue of it being the path less taken

Their wordsThis is a computer system made for pros, and I mean that in the sense of professional computer lovers. People who are willing to invest time and energy into learning how their system works, and reap the benefits that come from that investment.

Their wordsOf course, Linux isn't for everyone. It's still an adventure! An awesome, teach-you-about-computers adventure, but not everyone is into computer adventures. Plenty of people are content with a computer appliance where they never have to look under the hood.

Their wordsArch has been around for twenty years, but with Hyprland on top, it's been catapulted in front of an entirely new audience. Folks who'd never thought that open source could be able to deliver a desktop experience worth giving up Windows or macOS for.

Their wordsI think perhaps to some extent this has been a weakness of Linux because someone can look at that and go like oh that's kind of the same as what I'm already using. Why would I go through all the trouble to end up with something that's very similar?

Their wordsA nix based Omarchy would be amazing. Want to see this!

Their wordsMaybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.

Their wordsWe do not have to accept that these computers that are literally a trillion times faster than what sent us to the freaking moon have to take 42 minutes before they're ready after you unbox it. No, unreasonable. These computers are so damn fast, they should feel damn fast.

Their wordsBecause I do think that Hyprland deserves its reputation of being difficult! Not because the core tiling window manager is hard, but because it comes incredibly bare-boned in the box.

Their wordsA quarter of Omakub is trying to work around the fact that helpful tools like Alacritty or LazyGit or whatever rarely have official packages for Ubuntu, so you're left doing a lot of manual scripting to get everything a developer would want from a modern Linux setup. Not so with the AUR!

Their wordsSo while the downside of Arch + Hyprland is that literally every last detail requires you to make a choice and a config file to move on, it's also its upside: you can change EVERYTHING!

Their wordsThis means that if you're interested in running Hyprland, and you intend to set it all up from scratch, you're probably signing up for at least a good 10+ hours — just to install and configure everything!

Their wordsIt is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my computer, and this is where the agentic age needs a new operating system. When you can vibe code whatever app comes to your mind, you should be able to vibe code your operating system.

Their wordsLinux conquered everything else. All the AI infrastructure that everyone runs off, it's all running on Linux. All the systems, all the servers, everything is Linux. So it was kind of a curiosity that the desktop and the personal computers we were using really hadn't been captured, but clearly it was just waiting for this moment. Linux spent the time from '91 to now waiting for agents to fully flourish as an end user operating system.

Their wordsI don't require anyone to be as excited about AI or agents as I am. It's completely fine. But we also need someone in this camp in this Linux camp who are really excited about AI, who really leaning in with agents.

Their wordsNow you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s

Their wordsYou can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.

Their wordsThere's not this two-tier system where, well, there's Apple or Windows and they make the real thing and then you can try to hack or patch your little thing around it and it's going to look second tier, it always does.

Their wordsyou can see like we're about two little bunny hops away from having a computer that's so locked down that I don't get to run the software of my own choice.

Their wordsAnd if there's a one thread that goes through my entire career, it's just an absolute loathing of asking anyone for permission about anything.