Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M

So this is announcement. I was thinking if it is going to be Omarchy Server edition. But reading the names of all founding members I can see why it is worth the hype.

I guess for now most people will be trying Omarchy on their old PC laptops. Especially when new one is expensive. It would be great if there are certain test case or certification to make sure given laptops works with Omarchy.

I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum. ChromeOS isn't one because most of it usage is like a consumption devices appliance used for education. And those Download numbers and Internet video views seems to back it up.

There are roughly 30 - 50M professional software developers, I wouldn't be surprised if it is closer to 100M if we include hobbyist and other adjacent roles. Even if it is 10% of this market is a sizeable trunk.

On the other hand it is sad to witness the birth of Omarchy is precisely because of Apple macOS, iOS and its software ecosystem. I hope we have more senior leadership changes in the coming months once John is officially CEO.

Switching to Omarchy was one of the best decisions I made last year that improved my everyday computing experience so much, and introduced me to so many amazing tools like neovim, tmux, tiling window managers, Arch Linux, and countless TUIs.. Haven't touched my old MacBook this year at all.

If you're in the market for a new laptop / operating system, I highly recommend you give it a try.

This is absolutely incredible. And the caliber of the people funding it is incredible!

Been a happy Omarchy user for over a year, it's changed how I work with lots of Hyprland grouped windows spread across multiple virtual desktops which I can easily get to each with just a few keystrokes, it's a pretty fluid workflow after you get used to the keybindings.

Things I like about Omarchy:

   - Great job at blending Native Desktop, Web and CLI Apps - they launch & look the same
   - Polished themes - applied to most Apps (inc. running)
   - Built in installers for most dev tools, lets you get setup with most popular programming langs in a few secs
   - Built-in Windows (run in Docker container) great to have when you need it

Also something I only started doing recently is whenever I hit any Linux issue I now just paste it into ChatGPT and let it fix it for me which saved a lot of time porting my customizations over to Quattro. There's now built-in support for passing the crash info to your default AI Agent when a process crashes.

I'm using AI to power a lot of my desktop tasks now, even ended up buying Davinci Resolve yesterday since the paid version had scripting support which let me use ChatGPT to implement some video effects.

I installed Omarchy on an old laptop yesterday and was impressed with the smooth installation. The UI is definitely a different approach, I can see any developer who prefers the keyboard to the mouse would love it.

Good to see some innovation. Desktop Linux feels like it has been stalled for years and needs new ideas.

Also, having an AI to pre-flight compatibility issues and help with UEFI and BIOS configs makes life so much more pleasant.

Lots of negativity in this post. As someone who is an engineer and not a software engineer, this has improved my technical capability tremendously by giving me training wheels and removed decision paralysis because there's so much crap out there and everyone is so opinionated. I don't have time to try out pi and herdr and opencode and codex...

"what the malleable computer of the future looks like" ??? Excuse me? This is just a linux shell script repository. What is the point of having $8m to maintain a shell script?

I came to Omarchy from Arch. The value for me is that the whole keyboard-first environment comes assembled as one simple system instead of being a weekend of choosing and wiring together individual pieces. Omarchy is interesting because it treats the defaults themselves as the product.

TIL a really good r/unixporn post is worth $8M

Wondering why start a new foundation? Why not support the existing Linux distro? :thinking:

I use it every day for work and it is really fun. It's different from Mac and takes a while to get the gist of it, but for me it has been worth it.

I don't care if people see it as a hyped-up collection of scripts, it's calm and fun.

I highly encourage anyone e.g. on MacOS to get a cheap laptop and give Omarchy a try. My feeling of using this system compared to MacOS is a whole another level. And now one of the promises of Omarchy Quattro is that AI agents will help you tweak it to your liking very easily, avoiding having to spend dozens of hours ricing your system.

Can someone explain why I (a relatively Linux-naive engineer) would use Omarchy over Ubuntu or other popular distros? I'd like to take a look, but i'm having the hardest time understanding the value proposition.

I really want a good local LLM setup. It's kind of funny now that the best deal for LLMs is an M5 Macbook, Macs have become very uncool, especially I have been running Linux on my computers for over a decade.

I guess people who aren't poor can afford a 5090 or even RTX 6000. Plus the latest Linux desktops look cooler.

I have a really hard time getting excited by this. I'm a Hey customer, and it's one of my biggest regrets. DHH promises a lot, then gets sidetracked with killing DEI or spending years migrating off AWS (for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any) or bending over backwards to have a framework to avoid front end frameworks or whatever the hot new flavor of the month is. Meanwhile, my Android app email client performs terribly when I'm on LTE (!) and I'm strong armed into using a calendar app that I don't want or need, while obvious spam and phishing emails routinely doesn't get caught and the search feature is less than useless. If changing email addresses was less tedious, I'd have done it already. I'll never trust DHH with another of his company's products, let alone trust him with my computer's operating system.

> We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in!

Let's go :)

Was about to sell the parts of my old Haswell Hackintosh which I did replace with a M1 Mac Mini a couple of years ago after 10 years in use, but now I might just dust off my old Lian Li case build it back together for Omarchy as my dev and tinker machine. Still has double the RAM of my Mini..

I have had so much fun with Omarchy! great news!

insofar as this gets people off macos/windows and onto linux, especially among younger people where macos has managed to hold on to the position of a default that developers are comfortable e.g. being the only platform they support, this is a good thing imo

the fact that it's largely hype-driven is par for the course for how things work these days

Does anyone have experience with Dell XPS / Omarchy/Arch and docking stations? I've had a lot of trouble getting it to work reliably with my ThinkPad. I'd switch if I knew it was plug and play on Arch/Omarchy.

I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views:

- https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i...

- https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

Anything that gets hyprland on more devices is a beautiful thing in my book

My gripe with omarchy is that it could be a script applied on top of bare arch or bare cachyos, i'm not sure why it needs to be a standalone distribution. Also try as I might - I cannot get down with hyprland. KDE for life! All this being said, positivity and investment in the Linux ecosystem is always a good thing.

Must be nice to have 1M to throw into hobby projects, happy for them.

This is dope. Love to see any efforts to get Linux on the desktop more ready to use.

I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday.

I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primarily). There are tradeoffs, but I haven't enjoyed working on computers this much since the 2010 era, first learning to build web apps with Ruby on Rails. The distro is merely 6 gigs and takes minutes to install. And the video DHH just released Quattro with is worth a watch to get a feel for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE

macOS is finally getting some serious competition with an open platform!

Related: DHH is appearing live on Primeagen's twitch/yt/kick channel in 5 min (10am PST).

https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen

These guys are fighting the good fight.

Vibe coded techbro Linux? No, thanks.

Isn’t Omarchy a vibe coded Linux distro with Claude?

Seems you can just vibe code anything and get funding for slop if you’re rich.

If this is needed for the “year of Linux on the desktop” have at it I guess.

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