I’ve never used bcachefs and only recently read about some of the drama. I wish the project the best but at this point it is hard to beat zfs

I’m of mixed views about this. Omarchy is popular purely because of DHH. I don’t see anything of benefit beyond the notoriety of a famous dev.

There’s also some dissenting opinion about DHH in general that taints the project: https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

Being based on hyprland also has some potential social issues.

I don’t get why cloudflare didn’t donate to arch instead.

This was a really great read. The numbers don’t lie: 7 companies each independently invested 100 bn in AI and have seen little revenue in return (relatively speaking). When overlaying that on top of its impact on the us stock market as a whole, once the veil has been lifted that this is not leading to super intelligence, a bubble will burst and the entire economy will feel it.

That doesn't mean "nothing to see here, move on." It means that AI isn't the bow-wave of "impending superintelligence." Nor is it going to deliver "humanlike intelligence."

It's a grab-bag of useful (sometimes very useful) tools that can sometimes make workers' lives better, when workers get to decide how and when they're used.

This is the part that is overlooked when discussing anti-ai hype: these tools are very useful, but they appear only useful to the skilled laborer wielding them, instead of the investor claim that they will be replaced.

There’s also archinstall which comes with the latest os image which is just like any other installer and holds your hand through the process.

It’s really very simple to get arch installed

Here’s my journey from arch to proxmox back to arch: https://bower.sh/homelab

I was in your shoes and decided to simplify my system. It’s really hard to beat arch and I missed having full control over the system. Proxmox is awesome but it felt overkill for my use cases. If I want to experiment with new distros I would probably just run distrobox or qemu directly. Proxmox does a lot but it ended up just being a gui on top of qemu with some built in backup systems. But if you end up using zfs anyway … what’s the benefit?

If you want low effort high value then get a synology 2 bay. If you want full control over the host OS then run Debian/arch with zfs

The asahi project shouldn’t even exit with Apples purse, this is their job as far as I care. To be honest I would never use asahi for that reason.

Because if you are into minimalism there’s no eye candy. I use river as well and decided to ditch the status bar. There’s literally nothing to see on my screen except for my terminal. It might have neovim but again, i went super stock on my neovim config: https://erock-git-dotfiles.pgs.sh/tree/main/item/dot_config/nvim/init.lua.html

There’s really nothing to see

gnupass + git repos works great.

For anyone looking for a simple rss-to-email digest I recommend this service: https://pico.sh/feeds

I don’t really understand the question. All you have to do is run archinstall and then add a desktop environment like KDE and that’s like 80% what other distros do.

I think arch used to be hard to get started but not anymore. That’s reserved for gentoo now

Agreed. Website needs some improvement as well

I didn’t use any of the terms you used in your post. I’m not using those products in part for the reasons I discussed but also I don’t see it particularly useful beyond a cult of personality building it.

While not the same I use an rss-to-email service that hits the minimal sweet spot for me

https://pico.sh/feeds

Quadlet

Why not just run bare repos on your n100? That’s what I do. I have no need for a code forge with code collab when it’s just me pushing

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server

If you want a web viewer use a static site git viewer like https://pgit.pico.sh/

I use https://tuns.sh/ which doesn’t require any local installs to work since it’s just ssh. Its not as fast as vpn but its easy to use

Many political terms are so emotionally charged they are virtually useless except to insight controversy. In media it’s all a complete distraction to cause in-fighting and control how we think

It is being rewritten using swift

My salt is just a memorized password I put in addition to the one stored in pass