By next year, Omarchy could become the number 1 Linux distro. It's growing like crazy currently! Feels like the early Ubuntu days back then (yes, I was there!)

For the nights when the terminal is still open. I made HALDO Phosphor for a calmer Omarchy workspace: ivory text, phosphor green and warm orange. v1.0.1 is out, with three backgrounds. github.com/mapski/omarchy-ha… #Omarchy

I built the HALDO Phosphor theme for the “one more commit” crowd. Phosphor green with highlighter green accents and a touch of soft orange. A minimal desktop for nights when the code keeps you up. github.com/mapski/omarchy-ha… #omarchy #archlinux #devops

Wow!

Omarchy v4.0.6 has been released! This patch release resolves a few small hiccups specific users encountered with v4.0.5 github.com/omacom/omarchy/re…

Omarchy 4.0.5 has been released. Another big batch of fixes, tweaks, and dependency updates. We're still hard at work on the next major update with new features, apps, and aesthetics! github.com/omacom/omarchy/re…

Omarchy Mobile update ⚡📱 The camera app was a big step. Since then, the project has gone from one phone to a family of Pixels, thanks to the community 🙌 Device support - Pixel Fold (felix): first light! It boots our mainline kernel to a console on the cover screen, with UFS storage enabled behind our storage guard. Huge thanks to @boozedog. - Pixel 6 / 6 Pro (oriole, raven): the build tools now build and flash Tensor G1 phones. The Pixel 6 has its device descriptor from a real retail phone, and Mesa now recognizes the Mali-G78 GPU. Thanks to @robotosaith and @bilacc, with the GPU and Pixel 6 Pro kernel work in review. - Pixel 4 (flame): our first Snapdragon phone, now with a safe, read-only first-light probe that runs from RAM. Thanks to @wirelessjoe. - One shared boot setup now serves every phone, so adding a new device mostly means writing its config file. Big wins on the Pixel 7 Pro - 🔋 Charging is on by default now, protected by a battery temperature guard. And when you plug in, the battery actually says "Charging." - 👆 Fingerprint unlock survives sleep. We found and fixed a bug where sleep left the sensor stuck. - 🐧 Our first Linux kernel patch went upstream. The battery fix was sent to the Linux kernel mailing list and got a Reviewed-by within hours. - 🤖 The AI Agent shortcut has been added, and first-run setup now asks which AI agents you want. Nothing proprietary is preinstalled, and you choose what goes on your phone. Up next: we're testing Wi-Fi through repeated sleep/wake cycles right now, which is the next step toward the phone sleeping on its own when the screen is off for real battery life. Got a Pixel? Device ports are open and contributors are welcome. Thank you to everyone who's sent a PR 🧡 github.com/derekross/omarchy…

Added some incredibly cool stats on omahcl.com & I cannot wait for the data to flow in!

Reading OpenCode’s breach disclosure, I kept coming back to the people who had connected their own AI providers. OpenCode says the incident affected 1.4% of Console users, a subset with external providers linked. I want to understand exactly where that access went. Who held the credentials? What could they authorize? What would still work if the tool itself was switched off? The statement calls this a distillation attack, but it doesn’t explain the route into the system. I’m keeping those questions separate until there’s a fuller account. I still love the feeling of getting a machine to do something new. Giving it access makes me want to look a little closer at the wiring. Do you know which tools still have access to your AI accounts? OpenCode’s statement HALDO.dev · @haldodev on X

The Girl in the Beige Case haldodev.substack.com/p/the-…

I made a quick Plex plugin, I have a N150 so Hvec/H264 and Av1 decode all sorted ... in a Zimaboard setup it's the perfect thing for Plex and we now have we Gliff to run the Omarchy desktop from remote ...so its all come together ..sweet

"[Linux] is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be." — Linus lore.kernel.org/linux-media/…

Proton Authenticator for Omarchy v1.0.2. Search accounts, check expiry and copy 2FA codes directly from your bar. Reads the official app’s local vault. Source and setup: github.com/mapski/omarchy.pr… #omarchy #OmarchyPlugins

Be honest. Name a Linux distro better than Arch. I'll wait.

Today in Omarchy (16-Oct-2026) Getting Linux onto a Mac is exciting. Getting the ports, displays and installer reliable enough that you can stop thinking about them is where it becomes useful. There’s progress on both in the last 24 hours, plus a small keyboard change that deserves more attention than its size suggests. 🍎 Fewer Mac display headaches Aurora 2026.10.15.19 arrived late last night with fixes for USB-C on M1 Pro/Max machines and HDMI on M3 Pro. The USB-C problem is particularly annoying. If the boot loader leaves a display controller disabled, the ports can wait forever for something that will never appear. This release changes that behaviour. On M3 Pro, HDMI should stop reporting a disconnect and reconnect while the firmware describes the display again. The release credits a contributor check on the 16-inch model. The 14-inch remains untested. These are still experimental hardware profiles. The specific USB-C failure wasn’t reproduced on lab hardware, and an intermittent M3 Pro Bluetooth startup problem remains. The maintainers report regression checks on M1 Air and M3 Pro, but that isn’t a blanket claim that every supported Mac is sorted. Useful progress, with enough detail to judge whether it applies to your machine. 🧪 Mac installation checks lose a manual step Emir’s change to the Mac installer merged today, moving VM acceptance checks onto Namespace’s Apple-backed ARM runners. Previously, someone had to register the M2 lab Mac as a temporary runner for each run. The new setup removes that preparation and runs the checks inside an Arch Linux ARM container. The linked validation run passed, including the fresh-install check and the recording of test evidence. That test happened before today’s merge. This is VM installation testing, not proof that a physical Mac’s speakers, sleep or external displays work. Still, removing manual preparation makes it easier to run the checks consistently. That matters when the installer keeps changing. 📸 A shortcut your fingers might already know Super + Shift + S now takes a screenshot in Quattro development, thanks to TripleU613’s merged contribution. Print Screen stays. Google Maps moves to Super + Shift + Alt + S. Small change, obvious benefit if your keyboard has no convenient Print Screen key, or your fingers still remember Windows. This is a development merge, not a new stable release. 🖼️ The Met joins the wallpaper rotation Pixel-Jack’s Met Wallpaper entered the plugin marketplace today. It rotates public-domain landscape paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with captions identifying the work and artist. The documented setup caches a week of images ahead and changes the wallpaper hourly. It needs an additional installation step to configure its user timers. Today’s news is the marketplace listing, not the invention of the plugin. I’ve already made my own Omarchy themes. Apparently the next reasonable step is giving the desktop an entire museum to choose from 😂