Who’s CJ? Let Me Put You On.

So this is it. My first real blog post. No template filler, no placeholder text. Just me.

I’m CJ — a programmer, creator, and the person behind Aura Linux. This site is where I’ll be sharing everything I build, open source, for anyone to use, learn from, or make their own.

But before we get into all that, let me tell you how I got here.

It Started With Game Mods

I didn’t get into programming the “normal” way. No one sat me down with a textbook. I got hooked because I wanted to mess with games. Modding, tweaking configs, figuring out how things worked under the hood — that was my entry point.

Something about cracking open a system and bending it to do what I wanted just clicked. Once I got that first mod working, that first script running, there was no going back.

From there it snowballed. I mixed self-teaching with some formal learning along the way, but honestly the real education was just building things. Breaking things. Fixing them. Repeating that cycle over and over until it stuck.

Why I Built Aura

If you’ve ever tried to set up a Linux desktop from scratch, you know the pain. You install Arch, you pick a window manager, and then you spend the next three days configuring everything just to get a halfway decent looking setup. And if something breaks? Good luck.

Linux is powerful. But it’s ugly and hard out of the box. I got tired of it.

So I took matters into my own hands. I forked Omarchy, built on top of it, and turned it into Aura — a streamlined Arch Linux experience with multiple shell options and a desktop that just works out of the box. Clean, fast, and beautiful from the first boot. No ricing for hours. No hunting for configs.

And it’s completely open source.

What This Blog Is For

This isn’t just a code dump. I’m not here to throw repos at you and disappear.

This blog is where I’ll share the projects I’m working on, the thinking behind them, the mistakes I made building them, and how you can use them yourself. Docs, tutorials, deep dives, honest write-ups — the stuff I wish I had when I was starting out.

Everything I build, I’m sharing with the world. Open source. Free. Because that’s how it should be.

One Last Thing

You don’t need a degree to build something great. You don’t need permission. You don’t need to follow anyone else’s path.

If you’ve got an idea and the will to sit down and figure it out — that’s enough. Open source makes all of us better. The best tools I’ve ever used were built by people who just decided to share what they made.

So that’s what I’m doing.

Welcome to Logix. Let’s build.