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omadesign

Linux creative suite for design, layout, paint & motion

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omadesign is a native Linux studio for design, layout, paint, photo, and motion. One document, one layer stack. Open-source (MIT). Built for Linux designers (including Asahi / Omarchy): not GTK or Electron. Install into ~/.local and start a file. v0.5.0: Design, Layout, Pixel, Photo, and Motion with templates, brand kits, and layered file interchange. Still alpha; rough edges welcome as bug reports. Install: curl -fsSL https://omadesign.app/install | sh Site: https://omadesign.app

PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 60 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views

Niche: ui components and design tools · 171 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Design Tools
  • Photography
  • GitHub
  • OpenAI Day

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Could you build this?

No Building a native, multi-purpose graphics engine from scratch for Linux (avoiding GTK/Electron) that handles vector, pixel, layout, and motion requires massive low-level graphics engineering.

What it would actually take: This software demands a custom 2D rendering engine built directly on Vulkan, Wayland/X11 protocols, and low-level rendering libraries (like Skia or custom GPU shader pipelines). It requires implementing complex non-destructive raster/vector layer stacks, font rasterization engines, color management pipelines, and keyframe interpolation math. Accomplishing this requires veteran systems programmers and graphics engine developers with years of experience in low-level Linux graphics architectures.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #5 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.

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