The Golden Era of Linux Is Now

And it's not because Linux distributions have somehow changed over these years. Quite the opposite. Just as you had to prop everything up with your own crutches, you still have to now. It's because of AI agents.

On my personal computer I now have Omarchy from DHH. It literally has no settings other than text configs. And I would have dropped this idea half an hour after installation, because it's too unfamiliar to me: tiling Hyprland, nvim as the default editor out of the box, from which I only know how to exit. I was close, but partly I wanted to try something that would break my patterns.

Would have dropped it if I didn't have Claude Code, which you can simply describe in words what you want from the system, and it will go and configure it itself. What a joy to not figure out all this software yourself, and just ask the model when needed. Linux flourishes precisely because of how CLI-first and file-first it is out of the box, and always has been. Before, there wouldn't have been enough time to fight with this, but not now.

Setting up a tricky three-monitor setup — easy. Redesigning Waybar (like a taskbar/menu bar) for yourself — trivial. Saying that you don't like a dozen default hotkeys and you want to remap them to a different modifier — one prompt and done. It will also tell you what they conflict with along the way. Pulling the MAC address of paired headphones from Windows on a neighboring partition so they work in both systems (what even) — I've done that too. It gets ridiculous, I don't know how to change wallpaper without a GUI, I just drop a link to an image and tell it to set it. And at the end you ask it to put everything into a separate note with a list of problems and solutions for your future self who's already forgotten everything.

This is my favorite use case for agents — working with the system as a power user. Coding is only in second place, I was doing fine before.

And how beautiful it is that Omarchy comes with a skill for Claude Code out of the box that can answer questions about it.

I haven't figured out yet what it's like to live here permanently, but the impressions are interesting, let's say. Need to live here for a month or two and see if this configuration ever ends or not.