Installing Omarchy on My Surface Book for .NET Development

A developer installs Omarchy (an Arch-based Linux distro) on a first-generation Microsoft Surface Book from 2015 to test it as a .NET development machine. Installation took about two minutes and came with Git, Docker, Mise, Neovim, ripgrep, and the .NET runtime preinstalled. The author set up VS Code with JetBrains' ReSharper extension and Rider, using GitHub Copilot CLI to troubleshoot setup issues like keyboard configuration. Touchscreen and some Surface-specific hardware features (GPU, pen, camera, suspend) remain untested since the stock kernel is used rather than the patched linux-surface kernel. The keyboard-driven workflow and Omarchy documentation impressed the author, and next steps involve testing real .NET development workflows including Avalonia apps, containers, and comparing Rider against VS Code plus ReSharper.

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