I am happy to report that for the past few days, I have been using Linux again as a primary workstation. Mostly, due to the influence of @DHH on Twitter!

Being a technologist, I have used several OSes trough the years. I started my computer journey with Windows 95, then Linux with the French distro Mandrake. Then a decade running FreeBSD, to finally join the Mac team at the end of engineering school. But this setup has become boring. And a little bit sluggish as well: all software becomes bloated with time.

But let's be honest. The fun part of computing is learning new things and challenging the status quo. This is why I have been running Omarchy for the past few days.

My computer setup is fixed+mobile. A desktop computer (which used to be a Mac Mini) and a portable computer. I will keep the portable computer running MacOS for the time being, I like the Photos ecosystem and its connexion with the iPhone.

My Omarchy (test) setup:

• a €99 Dell Optiplex with a i5 10th + NVMe disk + 8G of RAM. I would say that this is the lower tier, and a better/newer machine would make sense for modern use-cases.
• 1G fibre connexion
• using mostly Chromium for my CEO jobs (GMail, Google Slides)
• running vim and Cursor for my coding activities

Current notes on the setup:

• Had to run loadkeys fr-latin1 for a smooth installation with my AZERTY keyboard
• Hypr has to be configured for the French keymap, it somehow did not inherit my Arch keymap settings, see Omarchy's Manual.
• Was already using Obsidian for my notes, storing them in iCloud. I simply moved my vault to Dropbox.

Learning new keymaps is hard + some of them do not really work with an AZERTY keyboard: SUPER+minus for example is captured by SUPER+6 which is already mapped to a virtual desktop change. But that's the fun part!