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ogigyesterday at 7:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

I agree. As a long time linux user, coding assistants as interface to the OS has been a delight to discover. The cryptic totality of commands, parameters, config files, logs has been simplified into natural language: "Claude, I want to test monokai color scheme on my sway environment" and possibly hours of tweaking done in seconds. My setup has never been so customized, because there is no friction now. I love it and I predict this will increase, even if slightly, the real user base of linux desktops.


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vunderbayesterday at 8:06 PM

Heavily agreed - LLMs are also really good at diagnosing crash logs, and sifting through what would otherwise be inscrutably large core dumps.

nielsoleyesterday at 9:32 PM

I recently accidentally broke my GUI / Wayland and was delighted to realize that I can have codex/claude fix it for me.