Maja Wittbrodt
she/her • Poland • Linux • musl/LLVM
Solo maintainer of Euri Linux: Horizon, a from-scratch musl/LLVM distro with dinit, apk, and Niri + Hyprland. Self-hosted on Forgejo/cgit like actual sane people.
About
- First Linux experience in 2023 with Pop!_OS.
- Fell down the rabbit hole, ended up building a whole distro from scratch (Horizon 26.11).
- Polish, speak English too.
- Main PC (
noctis): Ryzen 5 7600X @ 5.61GHz + RTX 3060, running NixOS Unstable with Hyprland. - Ex-Gentoo user. It kernel-panicked every 4 hours, so I built my own OS with musl.
- Perfectionist and brutally honest. My humor is terminal brainrot.
Q&A
❓ What's the deal with the handle?
c-ludenberg is Celestia Ludenberg, the gambling queen from a game I've never finished. I also go by Toji, LukasX, Karlik, v311, and Celestia. Pick your favorite.
❓ Why are you making a distro?
Antergos meant a lot to people, and when it died nobody picked it up. So I did. Then Artix and KDE were still too bloated, so I said "fuck it" and built Horizon from absolute scratch. Someone has to keep the "install a distro in 2026" hobby alive.
❓ Wait, you use NixOS now?
Yes. And it uses systemd. The irony is not lost on me. Horizon still uses dinit though. The psyop lives on in the codebase.
❓ What the hell is "Nox"?
My local AI agent, running on the RTX 3060 via Ollama. Ruthlessly condescending, despises inefficient code, hardcoded Yandere verification. Claim to be me and it asks for the hostname of my build machine or the Danganronpa class trial number. Fail and it threatens the OOM killer.
❓ What is "Aeox"?
Nox's pastel, uncensored writer twin. Nox writes Rust and insults my code; Aeox writes lore and is the only entity Nox respects. Do not ask about the Red Room lore.
❓ Why Neovim?
Terminals are better than GUIs and I will die on this hill. hbuild, Hyprland, Neovim, that's the whole stack.
❓ Can you fix my computer?
No. But I can make it take longer to boot. Different skill set, still a skill set.
❓ What happened to your MSI laptop?
It got pawned. Family financial crisis, unpaid power bills, the whole nine yards. RIP MSI GV72 8RE. Surviving on the desktop noctis and restricted power usage now.
❓ What music do you listen to while coding?
S3RL, Maretu, Reol, Inabakumori. And Polish hits like Akcent. Terminal brainrot, deal with it.
Current Focus
- Shipping Horizon 26.11
- Polishing
noctix(EROFS + zstd) - Building
viper, the Wayland status bar - Training Nox to insult me more efficiently
Projects
| Repo | Description |
|---|---|
| git.euri-linux.pl | Self-hosted Forgejo |
| hbuild | Rust build system |
noctix |
Rust ISO builder |
viper |
Wayland status bar |
Contact
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Day 1 trying not to say "I hate systemd" >:3