Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250 pull requests processed, and one heck of an awesome Arch + Hyprland Linux environment to show for it!

The latest release is 1.11.0, and it brings an entirely overhauled control menu to the experience. Now everything is controlled through a single, unified system that makes it super fast to operate Omarchy's settings and options through the keyboard. It's exactly the kind of hands-off-the-mouse operation that I've always wanted, and with Linux, I've been able to build it just to my tastes. It's a delight.

There's really something special going on in Linux at the moment. Arch has been around for twenty years, but with Hyprland on top, it's been catapulted in front of an entirely new audience. Folks who'd never thought that open source could be able to deliver a desktop experience worth giving up Windows or macOS for.

Of course, Linux isn't for everyone. It's still an adventure! An awesome, teach-you-about-computers adventure, but not everyone is into computer adventures. Plenty of people are content with a computer appliance where they never have to look under the hood. All good. Microsoft and Apple have those people covered.

But the world is a big place! And in that big place, there are a growing number of computer enthusiasts who've grown very disillusioned with both Microsoft and Apple. Folks who could be enticed to give Linux a look, if the barrier was a little lower and the benefits a little clearer. Those are the folks I'm building Omarchy for.