Every software developer should own a potato PC. It's the easiest way to ensure your application is fast enough. Put your agents to work within it and watch the weight drop. There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.

Sep 27, 2026 · 1:36 PM UTC

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That looks identical to the potato PC I've been subjecting my agents to all day for Omarchy optimizations 😄
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Smart guy. I do want to get a beast laptop to run Omarchy on though...
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You're allowed more than one computer. I think I have about 22 in the house right now 😂
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hypoland.org/ can now be a drop-in replacement for Hyprland for GLES2 hardware. My 2008 Thinkpad now works on Omarchy
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Ohhhh. That's super cool. How far back does this allow things to go?
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Yeah I used to do this all the time in the early days building web server software. Get a hunk of junk and if you could refresh the page a few times and it loaded instantly, that thing was fast.
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I hand them off to my gf, but she just hoards them. She uses all my old laptops simultaneously and won't give any of them back for very potato purposes😂
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Love that because of Omarchy I can now think of vintage computers like I think of vintage cars.
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Omarchy on potato machines with AI is a great dream for this! Right @dee_hw @autonomous_labs
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Felipe Knorr Kuhn
@knorrium
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who's working on getting Omarchy running on the OLPC?
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I do wonder if the agents using significantly limited CPU's in their environment (no GPU) are one reason the apps I make are quite performant.
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where do you pull this shit out of? The hardware is literally different. It means a lot actually.
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Windows users in disbelief
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Thinkpad t440p coded
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Instaled Omarchy on an Old Microsoft surface book 2 that could not update to windows 11. The agents somehow installed surface kernel and everything works. Touch screen included. It feels super smooth and the battery is great ( Windows was unusable with 8gb of ram )
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All of my computers are a potato PC Problem solved
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this reminds me of this
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2012 MacBook Pro running Omarchy - even put the Windows XP desktop background on it for nostalgia.
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You mean ... like my MacBook from late 2008? 😄I'm still hoping for that "fly like superman" moment - the fan certainly sounds like it's about to take off...😏 But hey: it works 🤷‍♂️
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Firefox starts up in loooong 3 seconds in Omarchy on my ThinkPad X1 7th gen. Time to rewrite gecko, I guess!
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I say it for years! Finally DHH said that!
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every PC ive had has been a potato, it forced me to build efficiently, and to use minimal resources wherever possible, adversity is the mother of true opportunity!
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16y in the case of a macbook 2010
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My ancient 2010 MBP is named "MashedPotato."
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My 3. One 4gb and two 8gb
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Installed Omarchy on a 2012 MacBook Pro Retina. Completely reasonable speeds on a 14 year old machine! Sure it is "slow" compared to modern equipment but still completely usable. Installation time was 1:59!
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Acer Chromebook
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@Grummz said this was Blizzard's practice, to ensure optimized performance games
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