your blueprint
The Rice Farmer
You will spend four hours making the terminal transparent. Worth it.
- base
- CachyOS: Arch, precompiled, guilt-free
- desktop
- Hyprland + Waybar, or Niri if you want your windows on one endless sideways ribbon
- gaming
- Steam + Proton
- escape plan
- Bottles, for that one app you won't admit to
- terminal
- Ghostty
- aesthetics
- you will handle that part yourself
second opinion · EndeavourOS, if you want closer-to-vanilla Arch under the rice.
What will still annoy you: Your own perfectionism. The rice is never done. You know this.
your setup prompt
Paste this into the LLM of your choice. It contains your hardware, your skill level and your blueprint. The AI walks you through the switch, one step at a time, and debugs with you when something breaks.
This is the generic The Rice Farmer blueprint. Take the quiz to personalize it with your hardware, your Windows anchors, your terminal comfort, and to get a copy-paste setup prompt that makes an AI install it with you.