goodbye windows! today i migrated to @omarchy by @dhh i downloaded omarchy because: - i like the integration of agents into the os - i'm a supporter of oss - i'm tired of bloat in windows - i dislike both microsoft and apple - frankly, i want to use software made by people who don't hate me. some initial thoughts: these are from the perspective of someone who's used distros like ubuntu and fedora in the past but hasn't been a linux user in years due to work. omarchy downloaded in under 2 minutes, which impressed me. upon trying to install, i got a black screen, i had to resolve this by pressing the 'e' key, appending nomodeset and pressing ctrl+x. after setup, in the top right there was a 'process crashed: 1password' popup which told me to click it to diagnose with ai, but nothing happened for a while when i clicked it (it did eventually work when i came back to it later). i love the opinionation and that most of the software i use is there out of the box or conveniently installable via the omarchy menu, however, i was disappointed not to see mullvad in the list. it has really great ui/ux which feels intuitive, obviously a lot of thought has gone into it and it's delightful to use. the deep integration of agents into the os with skills for debugging is innovative and effective. for me, the esoteric errors in linux were frustrating in the past. i use three monitors, and it was unclear how to rearrange them. i got around this by using the displays arranger plugin. i'm really enjoying hyprland so far! there were small pop-up windows on each of my screens (which are from the screensaver) featuring green japanese text on a black background like in the matrix. i believe this was a bug as they were displaying in smaller windows instead of as the fullscreen screensaver. the themes are great, the default background images are less so, i dislike the generic digital painting style. it comes with great functionality for area-based screenshots which are important for the work i do, i know there's issues for this on some other distros. i dislike that the sleep timer is so short at 5 minutes by default. i was concerned that my keyboard lighting wouldn't work, but it did out of the box. there's also an rgb plugin called omargb which is fantastic. it's so much better than asus' software, however, unfortunately there's no linux support for my prime b850-plus but this isn't an omarchy-specific problem. there was no audio or scrolling issues which i had in the past with ubuntu - refreshing! having grok's speech mode on to query as i went was helpful, although most of the shortcut recommendations it gave me didn't work/were outdated, i'm hoping shortcuts don't change too much if i'm going to put effort into learning them. overall, i'm glad i've switched and i'm looking forward to seeing the project develop, i even bought a t-shirt. onwards to learning the shortcuts!