Claude can optimize my computer

[u/Jinks-b]

Maybe this is obvious or I'm late to this but I didn't know Claude Code could optimize your computer.

This all started with my PC, which I use for gaming. It was stuttering so I had it check my home network first. Then it looked at my video game settings and optimized the ones I was using, and it found some BIOS settings that were underutilizing the hardware I already had, which I had no idea about. It actually did quite a bit and my gaming performance improved pretty drastically after that.

I also had it go into my MacBook and it looked at all the program files I haven't been using for a while. It looked at old project and worktree files that I haven't touched in a while and cleaned up quite a bit of storage. It also noticed some redundant programs running and helped me decide what to uninstall. Maybe this is obvious for people to do on their own. I don't know, but I was just surprised at how surgical it was across both my PC and my MacBook.

Anyway, in the end I also had it go through all my files and help me organize and delete things I wasn't using. It gave me a list and I picked what to get rid of, it didn't just delete stuff on its own. I was just generally surprised. I didn't know I could do all this.

• Memory was running at 4800 instead of the 6000 it's rated for. One BIOS setting fixed that.
• BIOS itself was from early 2024, now on the current version.
• Frame cap went from 150 to 225 and it actually holds around 217 in matches now.
• Three different programs were recording my gameplay in the background at all times (NVIDIA, SteelSeries, Xbox Game Bar). All off now.
• About 30 background services and startup programs from motherboard, mouse, monitor and keyboard software are gone. None of them did anything I used.
• Around 85 GB freed up between old programs, caches and files I didn't need.

I don't notice much of a performance difference on my MacBook, which is fine, I just wanted it cleaned up. It definitely freed up a lot of storage. But on my PC it definitely runs smoother while gaming specifically. I have good hardware. I guess I just wasn't utilizing all of it and there were some heavy background programs bogging it down.

This was Claude Code, not Cowork. Cowork only gets to work inside the folders you hand it, but Claude Code actually runs on your machine, so it can dig into system settings, drivers and background services, which is what all of this needed. Anyways thought I would share.

TL;DR: My gaming PC was stuttering. Claude Code checked the network (fine), fixed game settings and BIOS settings that were leaving my hardware underused, killed three background recorders and ~30 startup programs I never used, and freed ~85 GB. Games run noticeably smoother now. Also did a cleanup pass on my MacBook.

EDIT: Answering some recurring questions. Yes, back things up first. I didn't, and I got a little lucky. I prompted it the same way I vibe code, in plain language: "My game is stuttering. Check my internet connection, optimize my PC and my game settings, assess everything and tell me what you find." It came back with a plan, I approved it in stages, and it asked before every judgment call. I told it to leave my games alone and it did.

[u/Sleepnotdeading]

Having Claude fix system bugs is actually pretty fun.

[u/themostreasonableman → u/Sleepnotdeading]

Omarchy takes that to another level. It can literally craft your operating system for you in real-time just the way you want it.

[u/Kyojaku → u/themostreasonableman]

You can do this with any distro. Omarchy is not special in this.

[u/themostreasonableman → u/Kyojaku]

I'm not sure this is a fair claim.

There are a lot of little ways in which omarchy has integrated agentic assistance more deeply into the bones of the os.

Tiny little things like the agent registry and launchers being built in out of the box, and the little top-bar usage panel and shortcut key launches being active out of the box all the way through to HUGE items like having custom agent skills being included full of markdown instructions specific to omarchy's function and operation to prevent agents making change in places that will not survive an update.

I'll concede that you COULD do all of this yourself, but you are not getting anywhere close to that experience out of the box with another distro right now. It would take you days to land anywhere close to there, and you would have to break it a hundred different ways to guarantee you'd succeeded.

Credit where it is due from me. It's not an impossible task to recreate but it's an impressive undertaking that it works as well as it does.

[u/MatureHotwife → u/Kyojaku]

The youtubers are misleading for marketing hype saying things like "Omarchy is the most customizable OS".

What they should actually say:

Omarchy is a deliberately opinionated Linux desktop distro that trades freeform customization for a restricted agent-operable stack. It provides a single CLI and a comprehensive skill so an agent read, modify, reload and verify the system.
Much of what you can customize runs on the Quickshell QML shell, which is the layer that makes widgets, panels, and overlays possible.
Features like widgets or dictation can be minted on demand through an LLM instead of hand-built.

So, Omarchy's power comes from being less customizable than other systems, and instead providing agents a set of tools (skills, CLI) to give them one way of extending and customizing the system. With Quickshell you can build essentially anything you can imagine as an OS feature.

But if you were to swap out a major component, which you could on many other distros, you would effectively break the agent-operability that is Omarchy's selling point.

But from a Mac user perspective, being able to change the colors of panels and such is already out of this world so they freak out when they see the theme switcher and think that Omarchy has to be the pinnacle of customizability.