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New comment by rufugee in "SmartOS"

rufugee — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:16:38 +0000

As short-lived as I want them. Recreating them is one command and about 10 seconds (I have scripted apt/gem/etc installs as a part of the recreation).

I tend to use them for a bit, and then destroy/rebuild. Think days, not weeks.

New comment by rufugee in "Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby"

rufugee — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:37:24 +0000

Looking forward to experimenting with it. Looks awesome!

New comment by rufugee in "Show HN: Rails UI"

rufugee — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:35:08 +0000

Sad for the creators of the world. I enjoy the benefits of AI, but I hate if for creative individuals like @justalever.

We (developers) were all sold a promise years ago of technology/software being our future. That's changing rapidly, and there's no going back.

New comment by rufugee in "SmartOS"

rufugee — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:06:46 +0000

Using incus heavily on Omarchy here and love it. I created a script to read yaml configs and create ephemeral incus containers with certain capabilities and certain directories mounted within. It's a wonderful experience for sandboxing Claude Code.

New comment by rufugee in "Django 6"

rufugee — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:43:42 +0000

I have tried both Django and Rails for this, and honestly, very surprisingly, Rails did much better, at least with Claude Code. This is for a rewrite of an old .net application. Claude nailed it almost perfectly with Rails, but struggled with Django. YMMV.

New comment by rufugee in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

rufugee — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:04:09 +0000

I only wish Fortnite were possible. that’s the only thing I keep windows around for.

New comment by rufugee in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

rufugee — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:07:05 +0000

After reviewing the available options over a year ago, I decided to implement our own migration tool using https://dbup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (we have a pre-existing, sizable .NET codebase). It's worked perfectly for our needs.

New comment by rufugee in "Zorin OS 18"

rufugee — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:49:20 +0000

And here I am looking at the Windows 11 machine I keep around to play a few games that has forced to me to do a complete reinstall four times because Windows updates broke it overnight, even though I had auto-update turned off...

New comment by rufugee in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

rufugee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:55:51 +0000

As much as I despise the macOS experience, this small feature was a bright spot. So easy.

New comment by rufugee in "Thoughts on Omarchy"

rufugee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:13:02 +0000

Omarchy uses limine plus snapper to give you (by default, but configurable) five system rollbacks. Each time an update happens, or a package is installed, a bootable btrfs snapshot is created. I've leveraged this myself to after an update caused an issue with nvidia drivers.

I don't mean this to come across as snarky, but before you spread misinformation, you might want to inform yourself.

New comment by rufugee in "Thoughts on Omarchy"

rufugee — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:35:36 +0000

The elapsed time from burning the ISO to productive development environment is impressive. Also, folks worry so much about customizing it, but you don't have to. And hyprland and Omarchy almost entire driven by text files, so Claude Code and its ilk are super effective at customizations.

New comment by rufugee in "Thoughts on Omarchy"

rufugee — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:39:18 +0000

For me, it's not about ricing. I find Omarchy to be an incredibly productive setup, from the launchers for webapps to the focus on TUIs.

I'm conflicted about the drama and still learning more about it, so not ready to draw a conclusion yet. But Omarchy is definitely a very, very fun experience for me.

Granted, I've heavily customized it and am using hy3 for i3-like capabilities, so whatever path out of this for me is likely to i3wm or sway.

And, fwiw, I've been running linux since the late 90s, and most of that as my primary OS (with a decade-ish period of macOS I'd rather forget). I know what I'm doing.

New comment by rufugee in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

rufugee — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:24:51 +0000

same experience here with Omarchy. it’s been (mostly) flawless. the only reason i keep windows around at this point is fortnite.

New comment by rufugee in "Designing agentic loops"

rufugee — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:26:52 +0000

This is gold. Thanks so much for sharing. Being able to put claude in handcuffs and use --dangerously-skip-permissions without concern is a game changer!

New comment by rufugee in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

rufugee — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:39:13 +0000

This is great. Thanks for the detailed reply!

New comment by rufugee in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

rufugee — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:56:11 +0000

So do you configure firejail to give each app their own separate, permanent home directories? Like "firejail --private=/home/user/firejails/discord discord", "firejail --private=/home/user/firejails/chromium chromium", and so on?

New comment by rufugee in "Jeena's Hyprland Demo"

rufugee — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:12:36 +0000

Check out https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3. I use it for i3 capabilities on top of Hypr. It's AWESOME.

New comment by rufugee in "Jeena's Hyprland Demo"

rufugee — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:11:25 +0000

As a long-time Linux full time user, I begrudgingly switched to a mac for company reasons around a decade ago. I've lost a little bit of light in my life ever since, and was constantly fighting macOS to just let me work the way I want to.

I've switched back full time to Omarchy, and couldn't be happier. I'll likely eventually land back on NixOS with hyprland and my custom configs, but for now, Omarchy is wonderful.

DHH is just the salesman a Linux distro like this needs, and the combination of smart decisions (most menu'd commands just call out to shell scripts behind the scenes) and text-based config make Omarchy a techie's dream.

Add something like claude code in your ~/.config directory and you have almost instant and infinite ability to customize.

It's so much fun.

For any former i3 users, I've found https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 to be a very acceptable replacement.

New comment by rufugee in "Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone"

rufugee — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:33:45 +0000

Hello fellow lurker. I for one am glad you are here ;-)

And I echo the thanks. HN has made me a better technical professional in so many ways.

New comment by rufugee in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

rufugee — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:31:38 +0000

I share your concerns about homebrew. It was one of the reasons I gave up on Silverblue/Bluefin.