Omarchy: What Happens When an AI Agent Takes Over My Linux

Oh man, I have been obsessed with this thing.

And, you know, we worked at Microsoft for a long time.

I worked for Microsoft for 20 years and all I worked on was Windows machines and worked on a lot of Windows servers.

So I was deep into Windows internals and I knew how to make that operating system move.

I learned identity, all of that.

And Linux was always such a foreign world you know and it's it was overwhelming it was scary to explore but the truth is majority of the systems that power the internet that don't have a desktop all run on linux right it's the the plumbing of the internet is basically powered by linux So, you know, it's always there.

There's a great community on Linux.

And a few weeks ago on X, I saw this on my feed.

It was like incessant.

Everybody's talking about this new desktop operating system called Omachi.

And it was designed and built and released by DHH, who was the inventor of Ruby on Rails, the programming language.

Ruby on Rails is extremely popular, open source framework.

Shopify basically runs on

Ruby on Rails.

There are hundreds of platforms that run on Ruby on Rails.

So DHS is one of the most prolific coders to have ever lived.

And then he kind of raised some money, built a foundation, built this thing.

And I'm like, I got to try it.

And so I did.

And I have been obsessed with it.

And the beauty of it is, man, you can run an agent in it.

And the agent basically becomes one with the OS.

And DHH calls this the malleable OS.

If you don't like something, you can change it.

You can build