Switching to Omarchy was one of the best decisions I made last year that improved my everyday computing experience so much, and introduced me to so many amazing tools like neovim, tmux, tiling window managers, Arch Linux, and countless TUIs.. Haven't touched my old MacBook this year at all.
If you're in the market for a new laptop / operating system, I highly recommend you give it a try.
Dual boot, it's not exactly the same as the main Omarchy, but it works fine out of the box. Software can be limited because not many packages has been compiled for ARM but we are software developers ;)
Almost always you can get the PKGBUILD file from either Arch Linux Gitlab or the AUR gitlab and just add the aarch64 version of the package to it and then install from that. I have an M1 and M2 macbook airs that I use for home/work and I think the only package I've actually hit a hard stop on is discord, everything else can just be built from source if they don't have a bin version..
which laptop do you recommend, though? i type this on an m4 air that i wish i didnt buy; but i love its keyboard. i havea. t480s and do not like its keyboard...
I've been using ThinkPad E14 (AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD) - very happy with it. No problems with performance, battery, etc. at all. The new Dell XPS 13/14/16 is also good. Just get one with Windows and wipe it clean when installing Linux.
In fact, I was going to buy a $4K M4 MacBook before I saw Omarchy and decided to give it a try with a new $730 ThinkPad. Exceeded all my expectations. Omarchy literally saved me thousands of dollars.
The high end one that's recommended is the New Dell XPS 14 that essentially looks like Macbook Pro. Also Michael Dell is a notable supporter of Omarchy, so hopefully that means some good support and stability.
> Also Michael Dell is a notable supporter of Omarchy
Ah yes, like NVIDIA having good support and stability on Linux for many many decades at this point because Jensen is a fan of Linux :)
Don't purchase equipment and gear based on potential future support, vote properly with your wallet once things are supported instead, this is the only way these for-profit companies listen, and even that sometimes don't work. But don't go by what the CEO supposedly "supports" based on financial backing, it means little today.
DGX Spark and DGX Station ship with Ubuntu, every server they make runs linux, microsoft had to add gpu support to wsl because everything nvidia ai related works only on linux
nVidia has provided feature parity for their GPUs between Windows and Linux for longer than even fglrx was a thing.
Just because they don't give you all their source on command doesn't mean they weren't supporting Linux for decades. They were the only GPU that even worked halfway on Linux (and BSD) for a long time.
I am running it on the Framework 13 and 16. Both are awesome devices, but I'm partial to the 16. Beautiful screen, great keyboard, and I can easily swap in an NVIDIA card when I want.
Battery life isn't the best in this beast. I'd love to try a Dell Panther Lake laptop and may end up with one in the near future. DHH reports Apple Silicon-ish battery life.
After more than a decade with Apple (and Windows before that), I’ve been using Linux with Omarchy exclusively for the past few months and have been very happy with it. Can’t imagine going back to Mac or Windows at this point.
I had never really used Linux as a daily driver (aside from sysadmin stuff on remote servers), but Omarchy setup took less than 10 minutes and getting comfortable took just a few hours. Since switching, I’ve seen clear productivity boost, and the competency gained in Linux, Vim, etc. and overall performance made it totally worth it.
I’m running it on a cheap ThinkPad for all my daily development work and it likely saved me over $4000 since I was planning to buy a new MacBook Pro before trying this. Haven’t touched my old MacBook in quite some time.
Just wanted to share my experience with Omarchy, definitely worth trying if you're on the fence.
I know that there are many reasons for people to work after 65. I also know that sometimes life takes surprising turns. But it makes me nervous to see people so capable as Dave that are well known in our industry looking for a job. What is the hope of the rest of us ? I love software engineering but I still hope to be able to retire to work on my own projects.
This post shows how your application servers (Rails, Django, Laravel, etc.) can offload file delivery to reverse proxy servers like Nginx using the X-Accel-Redirect (or X-Sendfile) header. We'll also read a new reverse proxy's (Thruster) source code in Go to learn how this pattern is implemented at the proxy level.
Agreed, this should be the main link instead of giving AppSignal free publicity. The original is very much a light reworking of the original. It has the same content order and everything.
Fixed, good catch, thanks! I started my research using other people's spreadsheets rather than checking every vendor's pricing. Must have had old data.
Author of the original post here. I have no affiliation with either the Flatiron bootcamp, nor the SuperByte company. But I know Pedro and he (and his story) is real.
If you take a quick look at the rest of my blog, you'll quickly know that this was neither an ad for any bootcamp or company, nor an attempt to 'manipulate tech news readers'.
2024: the year where you write a touching piece about someone successfully implementing a late in life career change and the top comment accuses you of being a spammer. Only way it could be better is if he said it was all generated by ChatGPT.
I'd think so, given the same opinions when applied to a programming framework have generated hundreds of billions of enterprise value in the past.