๐ Is Microsoft building a Windows answer to Omarchy?
๐ฏLocal AI is now a fundamental assumption!
Microsoft revealed Project Zenith, and it isn't just a cleaner Windows desktop (min hw requirements are crazy).
This is Microsoft's definition of a LOCAL AI developer PC ... Specs ๐
๐ง 64GB+ unified memory
โก 250GB/s+ memory bandwidth
๐ค 30B+ models running locally + unmetered
๐ง WSL + Linux containers
๐ป VS Code + Terminal ready out of box
๐ค Local/agentic development
๐ OS-isolated agent execution
And the first machines use AMD Ryzen AI Halo.
Microsoft talks about โtoken economicsโ. So the OS could use ...
โ๏ธ Frontier models for frontier problems
๐ฅ๏ธ Everything else runs locally on a small Local AI
That's VERY different from the Copilot+ PC pitch.
It isn't a new Windows distro. Zenith is a specially configured Windows 11 experience + a certified hardware class.
... honestly, the comparison is hard to miss.
Omarchy is an "opinionated", agentic Linux for developers
Zenith is a ready-to-code, local-AI Windows for developers
And Microsoft's minimum is 64GB of unified memory + 250GB/s bandwidth. ๐ฅ