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Re: Omakase Computing

#41

> 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…

> Ruby-on-Rails fanboi

Lol. The author is the creator of Rails

Re: Omakase Computing

#42
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/

To me, personally, the value of Omarchy is more like a pre-riced developer environment, nothing else, and I am totally cool with that. Some people say it's not a distro, but then again, that would mean that kubuntu is also not a distro... btw, I work with fedora, so take my posture on this with a pinch of salt.

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#43

Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.

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…

"it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files."

This is inherently untrue. A .plist in XML is nothing but text. It might be formatted text, but it is still text nonetheless, like almost every other configuration file in existence.

Re: Omakase Computing

#44

Listened to DHH on The Primeagen’s The Standup podcast - talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. Like a dumb marketing droid parroting some inane talking points his VP has come up with to sound “AI relevant”.

I watched the same and I didn’t hear any marketing speak. He’s excited about his ideas, puts in the work and genuinely trying to make Linux accessible.

About calling Mac trash, I think he should have added “for engineers”. I like/use macOS and Omarchy both and they are meant for different audiences.

Re: Omakase Computing

#45

> 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…

"Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about?"

Probably Gentoo, since that's where the truly competent Linux users that do understand their tools tend to migrate.

Re: Omakase Computing

#47

This is not a distro. It's a masterpiece in trolling.

It's a top to bottom approach. Get the UI/UX working, make incredible marketing, sort out the technical foundation later. Excellent executed from a strategic point of view. Let's see if Arch is the best foundation for such a project. I don't know.

Personally, I hope, Debian isn't shutting the door on LLM-supported coding to improve their legacy tooling. I believe we have a very short window to use almost-free LLM fixing internal debt and outstanding issues with our FOSS setup.

Re: Omakase Computing

#49
post #16

DHH had been anti AI first. Then he got a board seat at Shopify. Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation. Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in. Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI w…

Something, something [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?is=yb-7gQhRCMelk-BH

Re: Omakase Computing

#50
post #16

DHH had been anti AI first. Then he got a board seat at Shopify. Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation. Now DHH pushes AI in a simple Linux distribution, one of millions of others. And the money flows in. Why would DHH want to keep foreigners out if he wants to make everyone unemployed? The same applies to Musk. It is interesting that these two figures support DEI w…

Almost everyone was anti AI first until they a) found out about agents b) found out about how to deal with halluciation and context management c) best practices in tests, prompts, skills.

Last year I wrote a gist to collect tweets to record the approximate date when known industry people made the change https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/133d6aaf759ee9341bea0029f03bd...

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