Omarchy on an ASUS CN60 Chromebox

Background If you haven’t noticed, AI and the datacenter build-out have taken a real toll on personal computing. Prices of RAM, NVMe, GPUs, and more have grown astronomically. As a point-in-time example, the desktop workstation I built in 2023 for $2075.29 (including tax) now costs $3459.48 (before tax). That is nearly a 67% increase before tax! Even before personal computing started getting so expensive, I’ve always been a fan of reducing and reusing old electronics, as have many others [1, 2, 3]. But I’m also practical. There’s a moving threshold: machines older than that often aren’t worth the extra work, or are too slow even for light use. That threshold is different for everyone. When the stars align, it feels great to get some use out of an old computer that would’ve otherwise been destined to be e-waste. An ASUS CN60 Chromebox Recently, I happened on an old ASUS CN60 Chromebox from March 2014. This is a dated x86_64 machine that came configured with an Intel Celeron 2955U, 2GB…