The Omarchy 4.0 distribution has been released. The project is being developed by David Heinemeier Hansson, the author of the Ruby on Rails web framework, who is trying to create the ideal for himself. LinuxAn environment based on the "Omakase Computing" principle, which assumes that most users don't know exactly what they want at the beginning of their journey, and it's better for them to avoid the hassle of choosing, and instead use a toolkit prepared by someone whose expertise and taste they trust. The project's work is distributed under the MIT license. The ISO image size is 6.2 GB.
Omarchy is based on the Arch package base. Linux, but doesn't simply offer a set of pre-installed packages; it strives to offer an environment of interoperable applications, selected with aesthetics and task-solving efficiency in mind. According to David, motivation is essential for high productivity, and a beautiful and aesthetically pleasing environment is part of that motivation. The graphical environment is built on the Hyprland composite manager with a tiled window layout.
The distribution does not try to be like Windows or macOS, to please the majority or to appeal to users familiar with the language. Instead of targeting the hypothetical average user, Omarchy offers only the apps David uses every day—from Neovim, Chromium, and LibreOffice to Spotify, Omawrite, Foot, and Zoom. It's expected that the prepared environment, coding in Neovim, extensive use of the terminal, and tiling will be unfamiliar to many, but those who dare to step out of their comfort zone and learn something new will be able to improve their productivity.
Changes in Omarchy 4.0:
- The desktop environment has been completely redesigned using the Quickshell framework - the panel, the program launcher interface, the menu, the notification system, the on-screen indicators, Control PanelThe screen lock interface and privileged operations execution agent have been rewritten using QtQuick and now run in a single shell process with a plugin-based architecture. Third-party packages such as Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg, and polkit-gnome have been discontinued and replaced with a custom implementation.
- A new interface for selecting a design theme (Style > Theme) has been introduced, which supports previewing existing themes.
- Implemented visual switching of desktop wallpaper by pressing SUPER + CTRL + SPACE.
- The menu and interface for launching programs called by the SUPER + SPACE combination have been combined.
- Using widgets placed on the panel, the launch of full-fledged control panels for sound settings (SUPER + CTRL + A) and network connection (SUPER + CTRL + W) is implemented.
- Added a panel for viewing the weather forecast.
- A drag-and-drop interface is used to position the panel and attach it to different screen edges. Double-clicking on an empty area of the panel can be used to change its opacity.
- To perform privileged operations, pkexec and polkit are used, with a prompt to confirm the operation and a field for entering a password.
- The ability to use different AI agents is provided (Setup > Defaults > Agent), such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Oh My Pi, Gemini, Grok, Copilot and Crush.
- Instead of Typora, the Omawrite editor is used for editing text in Markdown format.
- Omacu has its own application for trimming videos, using ffmpeg.
- Omacalc is proposed as a calculator instead of GNOME Calculator.
- Foot is suggested as the default emulator, Tensaku is for image annotation, Moonlight is for game streaming, and dua is for viewing free disk space.
- An installation mode without adding a user has been added. In this case, user creation and basic setup are performed during the first boot.
Source: opennet.ru
