A tour of the open source, AI-first Linux desktop that lets you edit the operating system itself just by asking an agent.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
Omarchy pairs an open source Linux desktop with native AI agents, so any part of the operating system, down to how windows resize or notifications behave, can be rewritten just by asking an agent instead of waiting on a vendor update.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You already run multiple AI agent harnesses (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok) day to day and want them integrated into the OS itself instead of living in browser tabs.
You're comfortable with Linux and keyboard-first workflows and are frustrated with Windows or macOS bloat, ads, or forced updates.
You're curious what it would look like to have an AI agent modify your operating system's behavior on request.
SKIP IF…
You depend on Windows- or Mac-only software (Adobe Creative Suite, certain games, enterprise tools) that has no Linux equivalent.
You're not willing to learn keybind-driven, mouse-light navigation instead of clicking and dragging windows.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Omarchy is an open source, AI-first Linux operating system built by DHH (Ruby on Rails, Basecamp) that Alex Finn now uses as his daily driver over Windows and macOS. It's keyboard-first and tiling-only, meaning every window fills a segment of the screen instead of floating, and every AI harness (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok) runs natively. The core argument: because it's open source, any part of it can be rewritten by simply asking an AI agent, and Finn demos this live by having an agent add a window-evening keybind and a notification close button that didn't ship with the OS. It runs on almost any hardware, including a seven-year-old gaming PC, and installs from a USB drive with an AI agent able to walk a user through the process step by step.
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Alex opens with the internet-buzz hook and previews what the video covers: what Omarchy is, why it matters, how to install it, and demos of things he says an OS has never done before.
00:40 – 06:48
02 · Why Omarchy is different
He introduces Omarchy as DHH's open source AI-first OS and lays out two reasons it's now his daily driver: it's simply a faster, less bloated OS than Windows or macOS, and because it's open source, every part of it can be edited by talking to an AI agent.
06:48 – 12:20
03 · Full Omarchy demo
Screen-recorded walkthrough of the keyboard-first, mouse-free workflow: super+arrow to jump between tiled AI-agent windows, super+1 through 5 for virtual desktops, super+enter and super+shift+enter to launch the terminal and Chrome, and super+space to browse and swap desktop themes (Osaka Night, Osaka Jade, Retro '82, Last Horizon) live.
12:20 – 18:20
04 · Why this is the future
He walks through two live examples of asking an AI agent to modify the running OS itself: a custom keybind that evens out all tiled window sizes, and an added close button on notifications, both built and installed by his agents in real time. He argues open source plus native AI agents means the OS can morph around whatever the user is doing.
18:20 – 19:00
05 · Which computer you need
Any computer works, including his seven-year-old Alienware; DHH recommends a roughly $600 Dell XPS, and Alex shows off his own newly-ordered Framework laptop.
19:00 – 21:46
06 · How to install
Installation is a USB flash drive; he says an AI agent walked him through flashing and installing Omarchy on his old gaming PC step by step. Closes with a subscribe/notifications ask and a tease that he may cover more open source and hardware content.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Omarchy is an open source, AI-first operating system built by DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp.
Because Omarchy is open source, any part of it, from window sizing to notification behavior, can be rewritten by simply asking an AI coding agent to change it.
The operating system uses a tiling-only window manager: every new window splits the screen instead of floating, which forces you to keep only what you're actively using open.
Every core action in Omarchy is bound to a keyboard shortcut built around the super key, eliminating the need to reach for a mouse.
Two of the keybinds shown in the demo, evening out window sizes and adding a close button to notifications, didn't ship with the OS; they were built live by an AI agent during the recording.
Omarchy ships with desktop themes that recolor every open app at once, not just the wallpaper, so switching themes changes the whole computing environment in one keystroke.
Omarchy is lightweight enough to run on hardware with as little as two gigabytes of RAM, including a seven-year-old gaming PC.
DHH recommends a roughly $600 Dell XPS as a budget-friendly machine to run Omarchy on.
Installing Omarchy requires flashing it onto a USB drive, a process the presenter says an AI agent walked him through step by step.
The presenter argues that because closed operating systems like Windows and macOS aren't open source, users can't remove unwanted changes, like ads or slowdowns, that vendors add over time.
All of the presenter's AI harnesses, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, run natively inside Omarchy out of the box.
Takeaway
Open source plus AI agents rewrites the OS
OPEN SOURCE + AI
Because Omarchy is open source and runs AI agents natively, any part of it, from window sizing to notifications, can be rewritten just by asking an agent to change it.
02Why Omarchy is different
An operating system built specifically to run AI agents natively removes friction that mainstream OSes add on top as an afterthought.
Stripping out preinstalled bloat, ads, and background services is itself a productivity feature, not just an aesthetic preference.
Being open source is what unlocks AI-editability: closed operating systems can't be changed by an agent because the agent can't see or touch the underlying code.
03Full Omarchy demo
A tiling-only window manager, no floating, no dragging, forces you to keep only what you're actively using open, preventing the slow accumulation of clutter that degrades a machine over weeks of uptime.
Designing a tool so every core action is one keybind away, with no reach for the mouse, measurably speeds up repetitive workflows.
Cosmetic customization, like themes that recolor every app at once, is a low-cost way to make a tool feel personal, which increases how much someone actually wants to use it.
04Why this is the future
When software is open source and paired with an AI coding agent, a user can request a missing feature and have it built and installed in minutes, without waiting on the vendor's roadmap.
Closed platforms leave users stuck with whatever the vendor ships, including unwanted changes; open source plus an agent turns that into something the user can simply reverse.
05Which computer you need
Because the OS is deliberately lightweight, hardware requirements stop being a real barrier, old or budget hardware becomes usable again for demanding, AI-heavy workflows.
06How to install
When a process is unfamiliar, like flashing a USB drive to install an OS, an AI agent can substitute for a written guide by walking through it interactively step by step.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Omarchy
An open source, AI-first operating system for Linux created by DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp), built around a keyboard-first, tiling window layout with AI agents integrated natively.
Tiling window manager
A desktop layout style where every open window automatically fills a segment of the screen edge-to-edge, splitting the screen further as new windows open, instead of floating and overlapping like on Windows or macOS.
Super key
The keyboard modifier key (the Windows key on a PC or the Command key on a Mac) used as the base for nearly every shortcut in Omarchy's keyboard-first design.
DHH
David Heinemeier Hansson, the developer who created the Ruby on Rails framework and co-founded Basecamp; he built Omarchy.
Resources
Things they pointed at.
01:44linkDHH (creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp, built Omarchy)
the clearest proof-of-concept moment in the video, an AI agent modifying the running OS live→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
19:45
“It's like your ex girlfriend introducing you to your new girlfriend. Sorry, Mac.”
the video's most memorable one-liner, tight punchline with no setup needed→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
20:52
“You're allowed to have fun using computers, believe it or not.”
closing thesis line, works as a standalone pull-quote→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
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The entire Internet is going nuts talking about this brand new agentic operating system named Omachi, and for good reason. It is the only AI native operating system I've ever used, and it has made it basically impossible for me to go back to Mac OS or Windows.
Plus, it's completely free and open source and runs on basically any computer or laptop you have. In this video, I'll go over what Omachi is, what makes it so special, how you could install it yourself on basically any computer you have, and show you some mind bending things it can do that you've never thought an operating system could do before.
Now let's lock in and get into it. So here it is. This is Obachi.
This is running on, like, my seven year old Dell Alienware gaming computer I've had, and it is the most amazing computing experience I've ever had. What you can see here is I have a bunch of different AI agents open and running and working together native to this operating system. My productivity has absolutely exploded.
I've never gotten so much use out of AI in my life. And, also, I just haven't had this fun using computers since I was a little kid. I'm gonna go into a very deep dive into what exactly it is you're looking at here in just a second.
I'll show you some incredible things I don't think you even thought computers can do towards the end of the demo. But before we go into, I just wanna level set with you on what Omachi is, how it works, and what makes it so special. So Omachi is an amazing open source AI first operating system from this developer here, DHH.
He is a very successful developer. He built Ruby on Rails. He built Basecamp, and he wanted to build an AI first operating system that didn't suck like basically Windows and Mac OS today.
There are two massive reasons why I think this operating system is a complete game changer and why it is now my daily driver. The only reason this video is being filmed on Mac is because my Mac is set up to all my cameras and lighting equipment, but that will change soon.
We'll hook up my Omachi computer to here as well. I I got another computer coming in soon I'm gonna install it on. But two reasons why it's incredible, and we'll get into the demo.
I'll show you all the mind blowing things it can do. Number one, it's just straight up the best operating system. It's better than Windows.
It's better than Mac OS. Right? We take out the fact that it's even open source and all this.
It's just the best operating system to use, period. It's super fast and super light. It doesn't have any of the kind of bloatware of Windows with Copilot and all this other crap and ads in the menu bar now and all that.
I mean, Windows is, like, the most unusable operating system in the history of mankind right now, and it's also not macOS. And I think, basically, everyone can agree macOS is significantly worse today than it was five years ago.
I don't know what they've been doing. All they've been doing is adding in crap and slowing it down for, like, five years now. It doesn't have any of that either.
It is only exactly what you need and nothing you don't. And because that is super fast, super performant, it is incredible for productivity.
I have never been so productive in my entire life as I've been the last couple weeks of using Omachi. I'll show you why in a second, but its entire operating system builds around your keyboard.
You're basically a key bind away from literally anything you wanna do. It makes it so fast. I'm just getting so much more done.
I think you'll see when I get into demo why you'll get a lot more done as well. By the way, just as a side note, every time I talk lovingly about basically any product on planet Earth, I get accused by a thousand people of being, like, a paid shill. I am not sponsored.
They're not paying me. Also, the people that think free open source tools are paying people to, like, undisclosed shill their products. You're insane.
This is not sponsored whatsoever. I just truly love this product. Few other things you saw when I showed you my screen a second ago, all of the AI harnesses are built in out of the box.
They all work with it. ChadGBT desktop works with Claude.
GrockBot's out of the box. Everything works. Hermes' agent is out of the box.
Everything works with this operating system. It is beautiful. It is nice to look at.
I've never considered myself really an aesthetics type person, but using this operating system, like, everything just looks so nice on the eyes. And this honestly is probably the most important part of them all.
It is just plain fun. It is just a plain fun operating system to use. I am having the most fun using a computer that I've had since I got my first Alienware gaming computer, uh, when I was 13 years old, and I was playing starcraft brood war and counter strike 1.5.
I am having the most fun using computer since then, and I promise you will have a lot of fun using it too. And on the other side of it, just being a straight up good operating system, I have had an awakening the last couple weeks because I I've had a couple awakenings over the last few years.
First time I used cursor was an awakening. Opus four five was an awakening. Using Open Claw for the first time was an awakening.
And now I had an awakening using this. What was the awakening?
Well, was the fact that I now believe open source operating systems are the stone cold future. I will show you this when we get into it, but you can change literally any part of this operating system you want. Because the operating system's open source and you can see the code, that means you can change the code.
And the fact that you can change a code means you can go to an AI, tell the AI, hey. Change this. Move the menu bar around here.
Change the colors. Change the corners of this. Change the way these notifications work.
And you can edit and customize and personalize literally any part of this operating system. I have a Windows gaming computer just because that's, like, the best way to play games, unfortunately.
I hate literally every part of it, but I've just gotten used to the fact, like, oh, I'm stuck using Windows' unintuitive mess. But it opened my mind the first time I went to my Hermes agent, and I said, hey. Edit this part of the notifications, and it changed, and I was able to change the operating system.
I mean, uh, there's so much to go into on this side, and I'm gonna go into it in a second. But the fact that you can edit your operating system with AI, I think, is the biggest revelation out of all this, and I'm gonna cover it all.
Anything you don't like, get rid of it. If this was a Windows and you didn't like Copilot, you can go to your agent and say, hey. Get rid of Copilot, and it would do it.
Any part of this, you can edit, which makes this, in my opinion, the ultimate personal computing experience.
Because AI is so native and because it's open source and you can change any part of it, the entire computing experience changes. The entire computing experience morphs and evolves around whatever your needs are at that moment.
You need something done. You need something to work a certain way. You just go to your agent and say, hey.
Change this, and it does it. It really is the ultimate personal computing experience. I cannot wait to show it to you.
Alright. So let's do it. Let's go back into Amache here.
I'm gonna take you through everything you know, show you how edit the operating system, all the capabilities, all the amazing things going on here. So let's go through the basics first. Number one, this is a keyboard first operating system.
What does that mean? It's not meant to be used with your mouse. Every time you take your hand off your keyboard and put it on your mouse, you're slowing yourself down.
So everything you see here is a key bind away. Right now, you can see I have Grok bot over on the left hand side. That is what's selected.
You can see that here. But now if I wanted to jump around and use the other windows, all I have to do is hit super and then the arrow key towards that window. Super being like your command or your Windows key.
I'm using a Mac keyboard, so it's command for me is the super key. So super arrow key bounces around the focus. I can say, hey there, chat GPT.
Then I can do super up. Now I'm in Claude. Hey there, Claude.
If I were to use my mouse and click around, it'd be going so much slower. So everything is a keyboard keystroke away. You get multiple desktops.
So super one, two, three, four, five takes you to all the desktops. This is the CLI music player I absolutely love. I listen to lo fi music all day.
This has actually, like, eliminated my need for a second monitor. This is so efficient and productive that you really don't even need a second monitor for this. I actually love this one screen experience so much.
I ordered a Linux laptop to install Omachion so I can use this on the go because this just feels like it's perfect for a laptop. I ordered a Framework laptop, paid for it out of my own pocket. I'll have, like, demos and videos on that soon.
If you're curious about a, uh, demo video for the Framework laptop, let me know down below. It's super sick. Anyway, any app you need, there are shortcuts for it all.
If I wanna open up my terminal, I just do super enter and boom, the terminal opens up just like you see there. Here might be my sneaky favorite part and biggest discovery this all, though, is there are no floating windows.
Everything you see here is a tile. What does that mean no floating windows, only tiles? Well, that means you can't click and drag this around your desktop.
Every time you open up a new window or a new app, it just splits your screen further. Right? Like, if I wanted to open up a Chrome window, I do super shift enter.
That opens up Chrome. You can see it splits my screen further. This actually has turned out to be a massive productivity boost.
The biggest reason is if you're anything like me and use Mac or Windows, the more you use the computer, the longer you use the computer, the more tabs in Windows you accrue. And if you go, like, a week without restarting your computer, you end up with, like, 10,000 Windows and tabs open and your computer slows to a halt, and finding what you're doing is basically impossible.
But by forcing you into tiles that continuously split your screen, it in a way adds this, like, kind of friction that forces you to only have open what you're working with.
So you can't just accrue this massive amount of windows and tabs. I used this for a week, and then I went back to Mac. And I had, like, a 100 different windows open.
They were all over the screen. They were on top of each other, and it, like, gave me anxiety. I had to, like, stop using it and go back to Omachi.
It was just such an awful experience. This is such a nice experience. And if you need more desktops and screens, you just do super two, and now you're onto your next screen.
I just have my music player up there. Super three, I go here. I wanna have a screen just for my terminal.
I'll go super enter, and boom. I have my terminal open. I wanna open up Hermes agent next.
I do super shift h. Now my Hermes desktop app opens right up next to that. Now I have my one desktop for my terminal and Hermes agent.
The tiling is just so nice and is so neat and so nicely done. It's also just straight up beautiful as you can tell. Like, this is my theme.
It's called Osaka night. There's so many other themes. If you do super space that kind of brings up, like, your finder like you'd see in macOS, and you can just search for anything you want.
Looking look at the different themes here. I like Osaka Jade, Retro 82. You you just go through all these.
They're all really well done and really well nice. You just hit enter. The whole thing changes for you.
Let's go back to theme. There's some really nice ones here too. Last Horizon's pretty cool.
And everything when you change the theme changes to that color too. So as you can see here, the colors of all the apps kinda change with it. Everything matches the theme.
The CLI, all the colors in the CLI changed. So it's really, really nice and beautiful and just a very pleasure to look at operating system. Let's go back to Osaka night here.
I like that. I like the green. I feel like I'm, like, in, like, cyberpunk when I'm on the Osaka jade.
Alright. Back to this. So was talking about earlier too, completely AI integrated operating system.
So if you look around, there's little bits and pieces of AI everywhere. For instance, you click here, you can see how many tokens you've been using on the computer as well for all your different, uh, AI subscriptions. I have codex built in here, Claude code.
I can see all my token usage on this computer built into the operating system, which models I'm using. It is really, really cool. And as I said earlier, all of the apps are built ins.
Like, Rockbot built in, ChadGBT, built in.
Claude, built in. All the AI harnesses are built in, so you get it up and running. You're good to go.
You can start talking to all your agents like I do here. I find when I have my agents up like this, Rockbot, next to ChadGBT, next to Claude, and I'm just sitting here hammering prompts away, I'm just getting so much more done. But let's get to the part that I actually think is the most important out of all this, the part where I had, again, one of those massive awakening moments.
And when I have these awakening moments, I basically see the future. I basically see the next ten years and how everything plays out.
This happened with Open Claw. This happened with well, I originally started using cursor with sonnet three five.
This happened with Opus four five the first time I and I just kinda see how everything works moving forward. I had one of those massive awakening moments here with Omachi. Why is that?
Because I am now convinced open source operating systems are the future, and open source offerings will actually end up beating macOS and Windows. Why is that?
Well, let me take you through how this experience went. So I'm using Omachi. I'm opening up a bunch of Windows.
As I showed you earlier, they're kinda splitting the screen. But the way they split the screen's very interesting where it doesn't keep splitting them all evenly. It keeps splitting your last window in half and half and half and half, which means you kinda get, like, these different sized windows here, which I get why they do it.
Like, you wanna have a main window and your others are kinda secondary windows. You don't want them to all be the same size. But there are times where I wanna split the screen evenly.
I want, like, four windows open each in their own corner. It didn't exist in Omachi. That option did not exist.
You were just kinda stuck with the sizes of the windows as they were. So I thought for a second, like, okay. Well, this is an open source operating system.
Right? That means the code's there, which means I can edit it, which means I can just go to one of my agents and edit the code myself. I went to my agents.
I have a few, uh, developer agents on my Grok bot team here. I went to my Machi dev, who's my one Grok bot I made that just edits my operating system here in Omachi. And I said, can you make it so I can just hit a keybind and it makes all my windows even size?
And I'll open up a six window here just so you can see how this is gonna work. And it was like, yeah. Let's figure that out.
Thirty seconds later, it's like, here's a key bind, and that will even out all your windows for you. I'm like, alright. Well, let's try that out.
And I did super e, and I hit super e, and boom. All of the windows just became even sized. And I sat there.
I'm like, I just edited the entire operating system. And then there was another thing I didn't really like.
Some of the notifications in Omachi, you can't really exit out of if they're marked as critical.
You have to, like, click into them and open up the window, and then then the notification disappears, which I found really annoying if I was in the groove of things and being super productive. I don't wanna go and jump around in different windows in order to get rid of notifications.
I went to my Hermes agent, and I said, hey. Can you add, like, a close button on every single notification even if it's a critical notification or not?
And then if I hover over notification, now you can see there's an x button there. I made that x button. That didn't exist before.
I told my Hermes agent to put it there, and it went there. Right? I edited this the whole notification system of the operating system so every notification has a closed button.
It didn't have closed buttons before. I wanted to integrate my to do list with the operating system. I wanted to hit a key bind and a window pops up where I can enter a task, and that just saves my to do list directly.
So I asked it to have some sort of to do list capture. I said, alright. Try super a now.
I hit super a, and boom, I can now enter this is a task. I can enter. Now it's saved to my personal OS to do list.
Right? Integrated into the operating system. And I'm just sitting there flabbergasted.
I'm thinking, wow. This is the future.
You know, taking this even further and even further, imagine a world where depending on what you're doing on your computer, the entire operating system morphs around you. If if I'm in code editing mode, all of a sudden, the entire operating system goes into some sort of code mode that's super optimized for the task.
And then I go into a video mode where maybe I'm watching a YouTube video or a movie or something, and the entire operating system goes around that and changes everything around that. Like, just imagine a world where contextually based on what you do, the entire operating system morphs around you. A totally personalized, customized operating system that's not possible with macOS, that's not possible with Windows because they're not open source.
You can't change things. You can't edit code. If they put out a new update on Mac that absolutely stinks, that slows the entire thing down, you're screwed.
There's nothing you can do. If they decide to shove another ad down your throat on the start screen of Windows, there's nothing you can do.
You have to see that stupid ad. But because Omachi is completely open source and you can edit the code and because it's integrated with all your different AI agent harnesses, I can just go to any of my AI agents and say, hey.
Change the color of this. Change the way this works. Change the way this operates.
And I hit enter, and it's just done, and the entire operating system morphs around you. It is the only hyper personalized, hyper custom operating system on planet Earth.
Now listen. All the other Linux distros, they are open source too, so you can technically do the same edits.
I was watching a couple DHH interviews over the last few days, and one thing he kept saying is a lot of the other Linux distros, the other Linux forks, they're being built by people that don't really like AI, and so they don't really have AI integrated or built in. Omachi, on the other hand, DHH is very AI forward.
And I imagine if you watch this YouTube channel, then you're pretty AI forward as well. And so he built everything to be very AI forward and AI integrated. So that AI integration combined with open source, now you get this incredible personalized hyper custom operating system, which I think is just absolutely mind blowing.
So which computers do you need to run Omachi? Well, here's the stone cold truth, literally any computer. They've been showing people running on computers with two gigabytes of RAM.
You can run this on any computer. I have this running, as I said earlier, on my Alienware, which I've had in my closet for, like, seven years. Any computer you have in your closet, any old dusty computer can run it because it's so lightweight.
The DHH recommends Dell XPS. They have, a $600 version of laptop, which is really good. I just got this framework laptop.
It again, it looks sick. I'll I'll show a demo of that later. Not sponsored at all by them.
I just think it's a great looking laptop. But you can literally put it on any computer you have. Any of them.
Fifteen year old computer, put it on there. How do you put it on there? You need a USB drive.
You flash the operating system onto USB drive. If you don't know how to do that, well, I have very good news for you. You have about 14,000 different AI agents available for you.
You say, hey. I wanna install Omachi on my other computer. I have a USB drive.
Please walk me through it. It'll do everything. I literally plugged my USB drive into my Mac, and I said, hey.
I wanna flash Omachi on my other computer. Uh, help me do that. It, like, downloaded it, put it onto the USB drive, and then walked me through step by step how to install it, uh, on my old gaming computer.
Little did that Mac know it was, uh, leading itself to its own demise by helping me switch over to Omachi. It's like your ex girlfriend introducing you to your new girlfriend. Sorry, Mac.
Now I'm I'm main driving Omachi now. If you're kinda hesitant to use it, I totally get it.
It's a brand new operating system. Most people stick with the same operating system their entire life. Again, if you just have any sort like, I I had my college laptop I put it on.
You just put it on there, test it out for a little bit, back up whatever you had on there. If it's for you, great. I'm gonna be very confident.
If you're watching this channel, it means you're a very smart human being, which means it's probably for you. But my productivity has exploded.
Again, I think this is more than just using a new operating system. I think this is getting with the future. Right?
Now we paint you a picture of the future. Imagine this. You have an open source local LLM running on your computer.
It's on an open source agent harness that can do whatever it wants, and that is on your open source operating system. Think about what that means for a second. That means you have completely customizable intelligence and compute and an operating system to do anything you want.
That is the ultimate personalized custom computing experience because every part of that stack is customized to you.
Every part of that stack is exactly what you need and nothing you don't. I believe that's the future of using computers. I believe that's how you get the most done, and I also just believe at the end the again, I think this is the most important part.
I think it's just the most fun way to do things when the computer is custom to you. You're allowed to have fun using computers, believe it or not. Did you learn anything at all?
You're gonna you're gonna start using Omachi? Subscribe. Turn notifications.
I might make just way more videos about this. I'm a primarily AI channel, but, like, I also, more importantly, make videos about things I love, and I love this.
So I might go more into the hardware and open source side. So let me know down below if you're okay with that. Would you still watch those videos if I went into that?
Leave a like if you learned anything. I am so, so grateful you would choose to watch videos, learn from me, go on this journey with me. We're we're on this learning journey together.
So thank you for joining me for it. I hope this is helpful. See you in the next video.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Alex Finn says he can no longer go back to macOS or Windows after switching to Omarchy, DHH's free, open source AI-first operating system, and spends the next twenty minutes proving why with a live demo of an OS he can rewrite just by talking to an AI agent.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
07:05list
Omarchy keyboard shortcuts shown in the demo
Super + Arrow key — jump focus between tiled windows
Super + 1 through 5 — switch between virtual desktops
Super + Enter — open terminal
Super + Shift + Enter — open Chrome
Super + Shift + H — open Hermes AI agent
Super + Space — open app finder / theme switcher
Super + E — custom keybind added live by an AI agent, evens out all tiled window sizes
Super + A — custom keybind added live by an AI agent, opens a quick-capture to-do input
Every action in Omarchy is designed to be reachable without touching the mouse. Two of the combos shown, super+e and super+a, didn't ship with the OS; Alex had an AI coding agent build and install them during the video.
Steal forany keyboard-first tool or admin dashboard, mapping every core action to a chord instead of nav clicks
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A hands-on first look at the newly launched multi-agent AI product Grok Bot — its cloud-hosted agents, teachable skills, and agent-to-agent messaging — and whether it's good enough to replace open-source tools like Hermes and OpenClaw.
Alex Finn runs both models through five self-designed benchmarks, crowns Opus 5 the winner on price and quality, then spends the back half explaining why he's not fully switching.
A creator walks through eight concrete prompts for using a newly-restored flagship Claude model, from code review to game design to auditing your own daily tasks.
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