After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
Eduardo on Twitter / X
I built a version of Omarchy that runs on your MacBook.I wanted to try out Omarchy before doing a full install, but I only have an M series MacBook so I would have to find a laptop etc.So I decided to create something that allows people to test and run Omarchy on their… pic.twitter.com/VVEsBT9rEb— Eduardo (@martiano) August 25, 2026
DHH on Twitter / X
Going to double down on the MacBook mission with Omarchy. We almost have perfect coverage for the vintage Intel era going from 2009-2020. There's a straight shot to get the M1 and M2 machines going too, even if it's a lot more work. But we'll do the work. We'll fix everything.— DHH (@dhh) August 22, 2026
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Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
It’s kind of crazy but the shitstorm of supply chain issues has created a new best-in-class local AI deployment: M5 Max MacBook clusters.- The memory unit economics are great - each MacBook has 128GB @ 614GB/s for $5k- M5 Max added tensor cores (Apple Neural Accelerators) with… https://t.co/f8STQ0tLZs pic.twitter.com/FLm3oOnyEl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 14, 2026
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🤯 400 Token/S on a MacBook? Yes, you read that right!Shaohong Chen just fine-tuned the Qwen3-0.6B LLM in under 2 minutes using Apple's MLX framework. This is how you turn your MacBook into a serious LLM development rig. A step-by-step guide and performance metrics inside! 🧵… pic.twitter.com/31Cmycy8Mh— ModelScope (@ModelScope2022) October 13, 2025
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