BONUS EPISODE: 37signals is moving to Omarchy

Welcome to Rework, a podcast by thirty seven Signals about the better way to work and run your business. I'm Kimberly Rhodes from the thirty seven Signals team. Today, joined by David Heinemeier Hanssen, thirty seven Signals cofounder and CTO. If you've been following David on any of his social media channels, you've seen over the last year or so that he has switched from Apple products to a framework laptop. He's now on Linux and has been working on a new project called Omarchy to bring all of these things together. We're here to talk about it today. David, I'm gonna open it up to you. Why don't you give us kind of a high level overview about what all these things are that we've been doing? And I wanna dive into an announcement you made internally at thirty seven signals about how we're gonna be moving forward. Certainly. So I switched to Linux about eighteen months ago. And the first port of call when I switched to Linux was Ubuntu. That is the most popular Linux distribution out there. It's been maintained for many years by a company called Canonical. And it's really nice. I found that that Ubuntu default wasn't really set up for developers. It didn't have all the tooling. It didn't have all the keyboard affordances that I wanted. So I quite quickly built something called Omicube, which was kind of a remix of Ubuntu. And I ran that for about a year. And then just a few months ago, I decided to try another adventure into Linux land and experiment with this combination of Arch Linux, which is the distribution kind of like Ubuntu. And then this window manager, it's called Hyperland that sits on top of Arch and drives all the windows and how everything works together. The big difference is that Arch is incredibly bare bones. When you get it out of the box, it has basically nothing. You have to run terminal commands so you can set up your Wi Fi. You have to install everything from scratch to, like, each individual package. And I initially thought, you know what? That's not what I want. I'm trying to get the opposite. I'm trying to get my ideal environment up and running in ten minutes or less. But then I started scratching a little bit at the surface, and I started realizing, you know what? There's an advantage here to the fact that Arch gives you nothing in that I could do whatever I want. I am no longer bound by the choices Canonical made for Ubuntu. I could put everything together just perfectly right. And that is the combination of factors that then led to Omachi. And Omachi is Arch Linux plus Hyperland, plus my Omakase opinions, choices, configurations, all put into one single install script, and very soon a full installation device, ISO, that you can just run and get up and, going. And I've been running this for a …