Omarchy

Omarchy 4.5 reached its third release candidate on Nov 2, with the final still pending and a few fixes left, according to the project's announcements and coverage. Discussion also centers on its Apple Silicon support, which began months earlier, and on controversy over funding and the founder's political views.

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Omarchy 4.5 hit RC3 on Nov 2, and the final is still pending

RC1 shipped Oct 21 for x86 and ARM, confirmed by Omarchy Central and Phoronix, which notes the ARM push also targets Snapdragon X and Nvidia N1X laptops, not just Apple Silicon. Starry Hope frames RC1 as a test build before the final, warning people to try it on a spare machine or snapshot first. The official GitHub releases page carries the standard RC disclaimer ("expect bugs, rough edges, and the occasional thing that breaks outright") and lists the RC3 aarch64 ISO with its SHA256 checksum. RC2 followed Oct 27 with an "F1 install technique" the project says has a record of 6 seconds (1,088 likes, 105,056 views). @ryanrhughes announced RC3 (898 likes), saying only a few fixes remain before the final. Omarchy Archive adds that 4.5 is the first feature release since 4.0, bundling multi-monitor work alongside a 4.0.6 patch that fixes stuck updates. Monitor layout and resolution settings are slated for 4.6 per @omarchy (1,497 likes). The account also said a kernel 7.2.15 CVE fix is on the stable channel (1,417 likes). Earlier, Omarchy 4.0.5 shipped with better Nvidia laptop support (HN, 3 points). Luke Byrne (22,811 views), @future.with.ai98 (1,084 views) and TechWorld (6,728 views) pitched 4.5 as a desktop built around Claude Code and Codex.

Apple Silicon is the 4.5 storyline getting the most X traffic, and it turns out to predate the RC by months

@OmarchyMac posted "Omarchy supports Apple Silicon!" with a macOS-native installer (493 likes), but Omarchy News shows DHH first announced the effort, called Omarchy M, on Sept 11, framing it as finishing what the Asahi Linux project started so people could "keep the machine and lose the operating system." Sublime Coding's field notes confirm Omarchy on Apple Silicon became official as Omarchy M around Sept 23, starting with M1 and M2, and call the writeup "a field report, not a verdict." @AGTPinsights reports the Omarchy Mac team then shipped its own Linux kernel for Apple Silicon, covering M1, M2, M3 and MacBook Neo machines, with release notes titled "Money for Nothing" from Chris Kearney. @JoshuaSWarren claims an M1 Max reaches 368 GB/s of GPU memory bandwidth on Linux versus 361 GB/s on macOS (287 likes). That is his own measurement, not a confirmed result. @dhh (2,816 likes) argues that people who try Omarchy on an old potato PC find a new MacBook "suddenly isn't very attractive in comparison."

The politics and the money follow Omarchy everywhere

A Hacker News thread titled "DHH (of Omarchy) openly expresses support for AfD party in Germany" drew 20 points and 10 comments, and a HN post on the patrons page called Omarchy "Backed by the Oligarchy" (9 points). @chiefgyk3d wrote on Threads that the issue "isn't technical," it's David Heinemeier Hansson himself. A GNOME blog post traces this further back, tying DHH's Omarchy promotion to a "collapse" in the Ruby community after a major Ruby Central sponsor, Sidekiq, pulled funding over his RailsConf 2025 appearance, which it calls a PR nightmare with its own community forum thread. A TikTok from irishtechconnect (737 views) claims ~$8M+ in billionaire funding. Reported backing includes $1.5M in Grok tokens from SpaceXAI per an HN post, $3M from Alibaba per Phoronix, and $10M for the foundation per The Register and heise. A TikTok titled "Exploring Omarchy Linux Without the Controversy" pulled 7,671 views.

r/omarchy is debating whether Omarchy is just Arch plus Hyprland

In the 99-upvote thread (88 comments), u/damanamathos (88 upvotes) says discoverability is the real value, and u/tomg813 (45) notes it takes "30 seconds to install omarchy vs a day to configure arch with hyprland." A 150-upvote thread says it "ruined other distros," while a 113-upvote post from someone who moved on after 13 months drew u/FineAntShill's reply that "Most of the hate I've seen is aimed at Omarchy because they hate DHH." ForrestKnight's 357-day review has 107,278 views, and a top commenter there (98 likes) criticizes how it handles AUR updates. Newcomers are asking too: r/linuxquestions has "Is Omarchy good?" (15 comments), and r/Googlebook has Omarchy on a Googlebook (99 points), where u/Koino_ (18 upvotes) says cheaper Windows laptops could run Linux.

The Omacom Foundation is staffing up while the repo balloons

The Omacom Foundation hired HANCORE as Head of Design and Community, its fourth staff member, in a post by DHH dated Oct 27. The omacom/omarchy repo sits at 46,157 stars and 5,942 open issues. A $100k bug bounty on HackerOne was posted to HN on Oct 9 (8 points). Around it, third-party projects include Daemonarchy (Omarchy desktop on FreeBSD), Omasharp (C#/.NET apps), and Velocitty 1.3, a terminal for Omarchy. @OmarchyUpdates says the 10 most-starred Omarchy repos are community-made, with Tobi Lütke's at #1.

A satire post about DHH's boot-time work reached HN

"DHH Spends 900 Hours Cutting Omarchy Boot Time by 0.4 Seconds" got 9 points and 2 comments, and a commenter flagged "Missing Disclosure: This is a satire website," citing its "Apple Aluminium Armrest" piece. Another commenter said that latency work is still worthwhile even at sub-second gains.