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Re: Omakase Computing

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post #17

Stock Fedora or nearly all the other Linux distributions are a thousand times more stable and secure than Omarachy is. https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

Well I guess that's the problem with

> getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions

Re: Omakase Computing

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is facilitated by Omarchy because all that stuff is dictated by text files that agents can directly interface with. Whatever the merits of MacOS, and there are many, it is not the paradigm there that all yo…

You can use the ‘defaults’ CLI to manage settings files for the OS and applications. For example: https://macos-defaults.com/

Other than being a proprietary OS that's getting more locked down every year, its disk performance is trash.

https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991

Re: Omakase Computing

#35
post #28

I’m very impressed with how easy Omarchy is to get going for someone who knows enough about Linux and computers to take over the rudder and steer the ship to wherever they are going. Proprietary tools like 1Password and Spotify are in place. It works wonderful in a Mac centric SaaS organisation. Actively developed and refined. It would be great to have a traditional taskbar oriented distro like this. But in the meant…

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Re: Omakase Computing

#37

> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch. Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about? Arch Linux I guess comes closest to it, but still isn't "everyone has to know everything about all tools", but I guess if you're launching some clos…

>> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools,

That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.

Re: Omakase Computing

#38
I'm a fan of omakase computing but in an "install stock fedora or debian" sense. I find the maintainers have great taste. I'm not sure any more ink needs to be spilt than that.

Re: Omakase Computing

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use the ‘defaults’ CLI to manage settings files for the OS and applications. For example: https://macos-defaults.com/

Other than being a proprietary OS that's getting more locked down every year, its disk performance is trash. https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991

Ah, the irony of posting "Your Mac is slowing you down" on the bloated JS hellsite that is X. That page took 10s to appear on my machine (before even thinking of rendering the video) whereas the HN front page is <1s.
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