My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My Platonic ideal of what a developer environment should look like.
It's not for everyone, though. Arch has a reputation for being difficult, but while I think that's vastly overstated, I still think it's fair to say that Ubuntu is an easier landing for someone new to Linux. And that's why this exists as a sister project to Omakub — my opinionated setup for Ubuntu — and not a replacement of it.
Because I do think that Hyprland deserves its reputation of being difficult! Not because the core tiling window manager is hard, but because it comes incredibly bare-boned in the box. You have to figure out everything yourself. Even how to get a lock screen or idle timing or a menu bar or bluetooth setting or... you get the idea.
Omarchy is an attempt to solve for all that. To give you a default set of great, beautiful configurations for Hyprland, and installing all the common tooling you'd normally want. You could setup this, not change a thing, and you'll have exactly what I run every day.
But you can also just use this as a paved path into the glorious world of Linux ricing. The flip side of Hyprland being so atomized is that it's infinitely configurable. You can really, really make it yours. No wonder its the preferred platform for r/unixporn, and even what PewDiePie picked up for his amazing Russian nuclear core build.
I don't know when we'll literally get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop", but I've never been as convinced that its coming as I am now. There's enough dissent in the water. Enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.
And between Valve going all-in on Steam on Linux (the Steamdeck runs Arch!), major creators (like PewDiePie) switching to Linux, and incredible projects like Hyprland — which offer not just a cheap visual copy of the two major commercial operating systems, but something much more unique and compelling — I think all the factors are in place for a big switch. At least among developers.
But broad adoption or not, I'm in love with Linux, and thrilled to share my work to make it easier to enjoy.
我们身边有两个双鱼座朋友 A 和 B,按照宿命论,他们俩在去年年底都会有「高光时刻」,比如站在人前、完成项目、得到嘉奖等等,具体的形式是因人而定的。朋友 A 闭关半年,终于完成了利用宏观经济和反身性理论搭建的 AI 模型,从而用来预测市场走势,因为这套模型的完成,他得到了自己导师的赏识并被邀请入职,他还拿到了家里提供的几十万的天使投资,同时他对经济学的理解又更近了一步;朋友 B 也处于「闭关」,但是他的闭关更心高气傲一些,众人为他铺好红地毯想要给他资源的时候,他为了证明自己拒绝助力,凭自己的能力找到了一份被对方吹得天花乱坠的一个月只有 400 元的保险销售的工作,但对他而言这就是他的高光时刻,因为他想向所有人证明了他所谓的尊严。
朋友 B 的爸爸会算命,一直告诉他接下来运势会有所提升,于是他就一直在等那个所谓的「时机」,就好比两个都有财运的人,一个人躺在家里等机会,而另一个主动走出门去寻找那个机会,最终,一个人躺在家里得到了 400 元,怎么不算财运呢,而另一个人因为到处走动,得到了 40000 元的订单。
报告的主题是关于进化的,第二个主题提到了Y染色体。虽然我们文化上现在还属于男权社会,但研究上Y染色体可以说是个被嫌弃的对象。最早被确认的Y染色体是昆虫,距今120年,之后人类基因组计划用Sanger测序紧赶慢赶,测了不到一半就交差了。其实也不能怪他们,主要是Y染色体上全是重复序列,Sanger测序这种打断了重拼的技术本身就不适合搞。甚至到了疫情后的2022年,telomere to telomere consortium 发布完整人类基因组时,也把Y染色体扔一边了。Y染色体被完整测序是长读技术的功劳,2023年才测完,我们研究所就是完成这项工作的团队之一。但其实在被完整测序之前,Y染色体就有很多有意思的研究了。
和我一样在等这个情感问题真实答案的,是一个正在情侣附近用电脑做 PPT 的上班族女性,在等答案的时候,她停下了手中的工作,却又因为听到这么无聊的答案,从鼻腔里挤出了一声轻蔑的笑,她意识到这个动作后,立马假装鼻子不舒服用纸擦了擦鼻子。年轻女性显然不接受这个答案,所以她瞥了一眼这对情侣。然后继续手里的工作,给 AI 输入指令,为她制作 PPT。
另一个正在工作的女性,是在咖啡厅的吧台工作的店长,她正在处理一杯客人退回的饮料,大概是糖分的问题,是她拦下了正准备和客人争吵的店员,深吸一口气后让饮料开始重新制作。我想她经常遇到这样的事情,所以早就处变不惊——如果这一切都用 AI 替代呢?未来的咖啡厅不再有柜台,而是一个冷冰冰的机器,它绝对不会出错,也会因为是人与机器的操作,在付款那一刻契约已经生成,消费者不能再以任何的主观上的要求去为难机器再重新制作一杯,没有人情味的咖啡,是否意味着咖啡的味道也跟着改变了?
在伦敦的美食评价软件 TripAdvisor 的榜首,出现过一个根本不存在的高分餐厅,叫做 The Shed At Dulwich,它不仅不存在,它的一切都是造假的——这是一场有趣的社会、也是人性的实验,实验者是 Oobah Butler,是一名杂志写手同时也是通过为餐厅写假评论赚钱佣金的专业评论师。
其中有一个喜欢玩 SM 的女人与恶魔签署了让丈夫净身出户离婚的契约,在一场 SM 游戏里被玩到高潮的那一刻,才意识到对方是恶魔的化身,她死在了最高潮的那一刻;还有一个和恶魔交换,让感染自己艾滋病的炮友受尽折磨后,自己想要逃脱违约责任,被恶魔抓到,在一场欢愉的性爱中结束了生命,而恶魔在他耳边的最后一句话是:「你以为杀了他你身体里的病毒也会跟着消失吗……」参与破案的警察意识到,这是一场「协议谋杀」,而自己也曾是与恶魔交换过掩盖自己罪行的签署者。