{"id":53015,"date":"2026-08-26T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53015"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:20:03","slug":"omarchy-and-omacom-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/26\/omarchy-and-omacom-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Omarchy and Omacom Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Omarchy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Omarchy is an omakase<\/a> Linux distribution based on Arch<\/a>, the tiling window manager Hyprland<\/a>, and the desktop construction-kit Quickshell<\/a>. It ships with everything a modern, savvy computer user needs to be productive immediately. From Neovim<\/a> (btw) to Chromium, Obsidian<\/a> to LibreOffice, and Kdenlive to OBS Studio. Hell, even a retro Winamp-style music player is there!<\/p>\n

This isn’t just a grab bag of preinstalled packages, though. It’s a complete system designed with both aesthetics and productivity in mind.<\/p>\n

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Omarchy isn’t like Windows and it’s not like macOS either. It’s not trying to be as familiar as possible. It’s trying to be beautiful and better<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I do not find this, or Linux on the desktop in general, very appealing. I don’t agree that it’s beautiful, though neither is current macOS. But I do find this effort interesting. The concept—preconfigure a well designed system and try to make it different and better—is good. This is not your average open-source project. It has $10M in backing<\/a> from the founders<\/a> of Shopify, Stripe, Dell, Twitter, Cloudflare, Sesame, and 37signals, and now<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Drew Houston<\/a>, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox<\/a>, and Peter Steinberger<\/a>, creator of OpenClaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And OpenClaw has essentially provided the roadmap for how Omarchy should tackle its explosive growth. How do you deal with PR backlogs that suddenly go parabolic? What about security around plugins?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Many of these were\/are Mac users.<\/p>\n\n

Eduardo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Run the upstream Omarchy<\/a> desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac.<\/p>\n

Try Omarchy packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple Hypervisor Framework, and a small Swift\/AppKit launcher into one macOS app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

One Happy Fellow<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only describe as regrettable (because I promised my mum I would swear less). There are bangers like video title bash injection<\/a> or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All projects have security issues but not all projects have such predictable security issues. We know how to deal with untrusted inputs. We know we should not use AI-generated bash scripts for processing untrusted input, particularly with seemingly no review.<\/p>\n

And you can’t get to a reasonably secure system by starting with a pile of bash slop and hoping others will catch and fix the issues before they are exploited.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n