Cursor IDE

In How to Stretch Cursor Pro Further, I argued for treating Cursor as the execution layer and routing planning, research, and cheap thinking elsewhere. Ollama got a few paragraphs — enough to explain why local models belong in the pipeline, not enough to actually set them up. This post is the missing piece: install Ollama on Manjaro, pick models for your hardware, and connect local agents that can read your repo, edit files, and run commands without sending code to a cloud API. ...

I use Cursor every day across a lot of codebases — not just one repo. At work that is mostly a large Angular/Nx monorepo plus many smaller web projects. At home it is broader still: playground companion repos tied to omid.dev articles, browser demos on playground.omid.dev, Rust/WASM experiments, Linux tooling, and whatever the next post needs. Agent mode, multi-file refactors, and inline edits are genuinely faster than doing the same work by hand on any of them. ...

Cursor is distributed for Linux as an AppImage, which works well on Manjaro because you do not need to wait for a package in the official repositories or the AUR. Before writing this post, I tried installing Cursor from the AUR, but it was not stable enough for me. I also did not love the extra Electron dependency, although that was not the main reason I moved away from that method. At the time of writing, there is no official Snap release, no official Manjaro or Arch package for Cursor either. ...

TL;DR Install zsh, then run the Oh My Zsh installer on Ubuntu, Manjaro, or Arch. Enable the vscode plugin, add Powerlevel10k, and install a Meslo Nerd Font. Point the VS Code integrated terminal or Cursor IDE terminal at /usr/bin/zsh in settings.json. On Manjaro, also see How to Install Cursor IDE on Manjaro Linux. If you use the simple Bash Terminal in your OS, you may want to give Zsh a try to use a faster and safer terminal with many more features. The simple Bash that exist in the common dist of Linuxes are not changed over years and just received some security fixes, but the community behind Zsh are improving it everyday and bring new useful plugins. ...