
Dad x3. Husband. In love with Omarchy. #wecanfixeverything Founder of https://xitter.cf/t.co/w341EtcoPv Writes at https://xitter.cf/t.co/5r0z5M4kre Creator of https://xitter.cf/t.co/AvoamZmK9i
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I've been using Omarchy for a week, and here's my full honest review.
It's an OS that made me excited about computers again.
I was planning to play with it for only a couple of hours. But I find myself spending more and more time using it. It's so pleasant to use that I don't want to go back.
Omarchy is a chef's special. And you can say that all the ingredients, like Arch, Hyprland, OpenCode, etc., existed long before, so you could always make it for yourself (not really true; people have built some things specifically for Omarchy from scratch). But someone spending so much time and resources to package everything nicely makes a big difference.
The fact that a fully working Omarchy setup is just a couple of minutes away makes a big difference. I can literally install it while I'm brewing my coffee and simply start using it immediately.
It just works ™️
And then I can spend all the time in the world tinkering with it because it's such a nice experience.
You can notice that Omarchy is built by a person who cares about a product. It's not just tech supremacism. Every minor detail matters, and every papercut is taken seriously.
As it should be.
Even an innocent tiny thing like "pressing an arrow or backspace key moves the cursor a little bit faster" makes a big difference for me. I do feel like the computer matches my speed of thinking and working.
Omarchy is not perfect. I had a minor issue with copy/paste keybindings with multiple language layouts (there's an open PR to address that already, and my agent fixed it for me locally). Terminal and browser windows take several noticeable seconds to start on my old laptop in a power-saving mode. My agent broke my theme once when I was trying to be too experimental with it (but then it easily reverted it to a working state).
But honestly, this is nothing compared to how bad Windows and macOS can be in areas that matter.
Omarchy will get better. Substantial resources are put into it, and I trust the @DHH vision to make it even better.
My biggest genie wish for now is having a better file browser, e.g. a TUI version of Total Commander or Far Manager style. But I've already seen someone working on a similar thing, so I have high hopes.
I just can't believe my oldest and least powerful laptop in my home is the machine I'm the most excited to use.
Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.
It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.
Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.
Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.
They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.
This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.
For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.
But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.
We can fix everything.
Let's do it together.
Let's go.
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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.
Replying to @thsottiaux
bugs and features for voice and codex remote
- voice mode in existing conversations in codex, just want to start a back and forth with the agent while working on something
- voice mode with codex remote (i would kill for this)
- ios and android codex remote parity
- fix codex remote bugs that makes conversations started in remote disappear on main client
- codex remote full parity with codex: side chats, model change in ongoing convo
- terminal in codex remote
- codex remote from web browser
buzz is cool if you're a normie "wow a slack alterantive for agents".
buzz is EXTREMELY cool if you know nostr and that it supports everything that works on nostr.
there will be thousands of web apps, mobile apps, bots, dashboards, admin tools that all work with buzz because we already built all of it in the last 3 years.
crazy how open protocols just compound.
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We have over 520 paying customers, we only lost 5 the past 3 months. Not 5%, 5 in total.
In 2023, we lost 20 customers in total.
If your churn is low, anything is possible.
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Newsrooms has a new name! 😱 Meet Sites, a space that goes beyond PR for creators like you to publish awesome content that helps you grow.
Read on for a little trip down memory lane and some questionable design decisions – the ghosts of Prezly past 👻!
prezly.com/news/newsrooms-ha…
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I believe this is one of the most important cases of our time, and one of the best ways to challenge monopoly power.
Rumble vs. Google
greenwald.substack.com/p/cou…
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GM. We had our all-hands company retreat last month, I collected all costs in a blog post, and shared what we believe the ROI of a retreat is - jailhouse.be/the-cost-of-run…
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I've made a UI Kit for the Bea Prezly Theme (public and free) on @figma! 💪
Check it out ⬇️
figma.com/community/file/108…
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Tonight's celebration 🥳🍾
My post in r/SaaS is up there the all-time posts, alongside
@digitalbase's very transparent post about @prezly
@mijustin and his AmA
@davidcoallier's spontaneous AmA
DigitalBase retweeted
Dus, mondmaskerplicht vanaf 6 jaar.. welke incompetente kinderhaters zitten eigenlijk ons beleid te bepalen??
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We are living in the strangest times I have ever known. The entire world has gone full batshit crazy and yet so many people carrying on as normal like everything is absolutely fine 🤔
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Nog langer negeren en zwijgen wordt medeplichtigheid. Zo is het @RF_HFC
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Het zou helpen mochten voor-en tegenstanders van het CST een beetje sérieux leggen in het debat. Steevast krijg je verwijzingen naar wappies, gelach, of “wie heeft nu tijd voor een ethisch debat over privacy” (@conner_rousseau).
Het CST ís een inbreuk op jouw en mijn privacy.
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Een minister voor Volksgezondheid moet de tekorten in de zorg aanpakken, overtuigen in plaats van dreigen en niet groepen patiënten in het ziekenhuis tegen elkaar opzetten

























