I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon
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I wanted to try out Omarchy before doing a full install, but I only have an M series MacBook so I would have to find a laptop and there's no official M support yet.So I decided to create something that allows people to test and run Omarchy on their devices so they can understand how it feels.So I built an app that allows you to run Omarchy Quattro as a native, hardware-accelerated app on your Apple Silicon Mac!It uses QEMU and Apple's HVF, a custom built Omarchy ARM image, a swift app enclosing it, and custom patches on Omarchy, QEMU, Hyprland and more.I tried many things, and this approach achieved the best results. The native keyboard experience with Super shortcuts works very well, along with all the rest.It supports any resolution (fixed ratio), retina or non retina displays, audio input / output devices, shared clipboard, and many other features.Since it runs on top of macOS, native features like universal clipboard and AirPods work smoothly.It takes ~3min to install, works the same as any other standard macOS app.The whole project is open source, so feel free it check it out on GitHub, install, PRs, etc.
HN · launched Sep 2, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 22%) · 3 views
Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Porting an entire operating system distribution or specialized OS setup (Omarchy) to run on Apple Silicon hardware requires deep systems engineering, kernel configuration, and hypervisor/bootloader tuning.
What it would actually take: Requires configuring a tailored Linux kernel with ARM64/Apple Silicon device trees (such as Asahi Linux patches) or custom virtualization layers using macOS's Virtualization.framework. The hard parts include writing low-level drivers, managing display server protocols, bootloader configurations (m1n1/U-Boot), and hardware acceleration on proprietary Apple hardware. Deep kernel and embedded systems expertise is mandatory.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Hyprland, AeroSpace, SketchyBar, Hammerspoon, Ghostty
Concerns raised: Missing Quickshell layer and Hyprland groups/scratchpad functionality, Only 70% feature parity with original
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 545 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 546 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
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- omarchy-ios-kit · github · 2026-10-10 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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- Try Omarchy for Windows · hn · 2026-09-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- omarchy-in-omarchy · github · 2026-09-09 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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