Omarchy crashed Chromium on me, so I built my own setup instead.
I’d installed Omarchy on a spare machine a few months back and brought it back online. The intro animation played, and I figured I was off to the races. Then I fumbled around an unfamiliar interface, opened Chromium… and crash!
I’m thankful for the slap in the face and made me realize I should build my own setup, not rely on someone else’s preferences in a space where I have strong opinions.
pura-vida is my definition of a relaxing and easy development experience. After the machine-specific steps (install, drivers, and disk setup), I want to run a single command and be ready to start work.
I grew up on Windows 95 and 98. Then my uncle brought a laptop to our house and used it to remote shell into a Linux box. I can still describe the exact table, chair, and laptop. My mind was blown, and my journey began.
I learned Linux through Ubuntu, and a budget laptop with unsupported hardware gave me plenty of rude awakenings. I hated every minute of fighting Wi-Fi drivers that never loaded. Those struggles still shape my understanding of what a machine is doing.
It’s important to struggle and grind so that we can all reach our own pura-vida.