DHH releases Omarchy Quattro, version 4 of his Arch plus Hyprland Linux distribution, and spends 81 minutes touring every corner of it on launch day. The shell has been rebuilt on Quickshell with a draggable, pluggable menu bar, a community registry at omarchyplugins.com with 114 plugins on day one, and Omarchy itself repackaged as a system package you layer your own config on top of. He demos the whole machine keyboard first: 20 themes plus Aether wallpaper extraction, pre-update snapshots with Limine rollback and a factory reset, a private Cloudflare hosted package mirror running one month behind Arch, Rails in one keystroke via mise, gaming through Proton, Windows in a VM, and new dual boot. The real pitch underneath is an agentic operating system: coding agents installed out of band through mise, wired to crash diagnosis and OS skills, used to vibe-code your own bar plugins, and entirely optional if you want none of it.
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At a glance
One year after the original release, David Heinemeier Hansson ships Omarchy Quattro, version 4 of his "beautiful, modern, and opinionated" Linux system built on Arch, Hyprland, and now Quickshell. This is the launch day video, an 81 minute unscripted tour of literally everything in the box, recorded in Copenhagen on his Dell XPS 14 with the release itself scheduled 90 minutes out via the OS's own reminder feature. His framing is grand and unapologetic: Omarchy is "a new kind of computer for people who just love computers," a mission to hand Windows and Mac users a more malleable alternative without demanding the hundreds or thousands of nerd hours a bespoke Linux setup normally costs. He already spent those hours for you.
The headline changes in Quattro: the entire desktop shell now runs on Quickshell, which powers a draggable, translucency-aware menu bar made of plugins you can toggle, rearrange, clone, and replace, with a community registry at omarchyplugins.com that hit 114 plugins on release day. Omarchy itself stops being a git checkout in your home directory and becomes a proper system package you layer your own changes on top of, which means updates stop clobbering your customizations. Fresh installs get a factory snapshot you can roll back to before selling the machine, Windows users get dual boot, and the whole ISO now fits in under 6 GB.
The through line is agents. Quattro was built in about three months and over a thousand pull requests, "fully agent accelerated," and the OS bakes that philosophy in: a default agent setting wired to automatic crash diagnosis, an agents panel that tracks your usage and limits, out of band agent updates through mise, Omarchy skills that teach agents how the OS works, and a live demo of Grok vibe-coding a world clock bar plugin from a screenshot of a Mac app. And for anyone allergic to all that, DHH is explicit: dismiss one notification and Omarchy contains no AI at all. The tour ends exactly where you would expect: "Embrace Linux. This is the year of Linux on the desktop."
The pitch: a new kind of computer
The opening sixty seconds are the mission statement. Omarchy is beautiful, modern, opinionated Linux, built on Arch, Hyprland, and now Quickshell, and Quattro is "a huge upgrade over the previous versions we've been iterating on for the past year since the original release." DHH says he employed "about a million of our new digital helpers" to speed up development, and then baked a bunch of those goodies into the operating system itself.
He is deliberate about the audience. You do not need to know Omarchy already. This is not a video for the choir, not just for people who already run Linux. The pitch is aimed squarely at Windows and Mac users who love computers and want an operating system they can actually change, but who lack "the nerd creds or the nerd time to invest hundreds, if not thousands of hours into their own bespoke setup." His trade: he invested the thousands of hours, you get the finished system, and now, thanks to agents, you can evolve it yourself. Add your own panels, write your own applications if that floats your boat, or just tap the community's plugins. "What if your computer was no longer a Mac? What if your PC no longer ran Windows? What if you embraced the beautiful future of Linux?"
First contact: no dock, one key
The tour proper opens on the new Quattro default wallpaper, a rally car with the little stag mark from earlier versions tucked in the corner. The first thing a new user notices is what is missing: no dock, no icons, nothing to click. Just a background and the expectation that you will drive this system from the keyboard.
One key rules everything: Super, which is the same physical key as the Windows key or the Mac command key. Super plus Space opens the Omarchy menu, the command center for launching apps, triggering actions, styling, setup, and installation. If you must use a mouse, an Omarchy icon in the top left corner of the bar gets you to the same menu, but the video commits to keyboard driving immediately.
The safety net for learning all this is Super plus K, a searchable browser of every keybinding in the system. Type "notifications" and it filters to notification bindings. Type "browser" and you see how browsers launch. Better still, you can arrow down to any binding and hit Return to trigger it directly, which is how he opens his first terminal, the same as pressing Super plus Return. The default terminal is foot, lovely and light, and swappable for Ghostty, Alacritty, Kitty, whatever you want.
Open a second terminal and the magic of the tiling window manager shows itself: Hyprland's dwindle layout places every new window automatically, splitting the space smaller and smaller into the corner as you keep opening them. "You're never hunting for these windows. They're always visible." Hold Super and tap arrows to move focus. Add Shift to swap windows around. Super plus J rearranges the layout. No mouse, no dragging, no window Tetris.
Then the browser, on Super plus Shift plus Return, and one of Omarchy's signature touches: web apps. A regular browser tab of X looks fine, but close it (Super plus W closes anything) and hit Super plus Shift plus X instead, and X opens as a frameless web app, no address bar, no chrome, which DHH calls "simply the best way of looking at a web application." Omarchy ships a set of these, for X, for HEY email and calendar, and more, all discoverable through the keybindings menu.
Keys
What it does
Super + Space
Omarchy menu, the command center for everything
Super + Alt + Space
Jump straight to the app launcher
Super + K
Searchable list of every keybinding, hit Return to trigger one
Super + Return
New terminal (foot by default)
Super + Alt + Return
tmux session, preconfigured
Ctrl + Super + Return
Herdr, the agent-aware multiplexer
Super + Shift + Return
Browser
Super + Shift + X / Y
X and YouTube as frameless web apps
Super + W
Close any window
Super + arrows / + Shift
Move focus between tiles / swap them
Super + 1..9
Switch workspaces instantly
Super + Ctrl + W / P
Wi-Fi panel / power panel
Super + Ctrl + 1 / 2 / 3
His extra panels: Dropbox, Tailscale, Agents
Super + C / Super + V
Global copy and paste, even in the terminal
Super + Ctrl + V
Searchable clipboard history, Delete removes an entry
Super + Ctrl + C
Capture menu: screenshots, recordings, OCR
Super + Ctrl + S
Share via LocalSend
Super + Ctrl + E
Emoji picker
Ctrl + Super + Shift + Space
Theme picker
Ctrl + Super + Shift + A
Summon your default agent
Super + Ctrl + T / Super + Shift + D
btop / lazydocker as instant TUIs
Super + Ctrl + Q
Omacalc, the themable calculator
Super + Shift + M / + Alt
Spotify (lazy installed) / CLIAMP
Super + Escape
System menu: lock, suspend, reboot, shut down
Caps Lock
Remapped as the compose key for emoji and text snippets
Figure 1. The keyboard is the interface. Every one of these is demonstrated in the video, and all of them are discoverable, searchable, and overridable through Super + K. DHH's rule: learn the ones you use daily, search for the rest.
What ships in the box
Back in the Omarchy menu, the app list makes the philosophy concrete: Omarchy "is not this plain stripped down version of Linux that then leaves you to rice everything and configure everything." It comes packaged with everything DHH personally uses daily. Some things he added after the fact, like 1Password for credentials, which lives one menu away under Install, then Services. Super plus Alt plus Space jumps straight to the application launcher if you want to skip the menu layer. The theme of the whole system is what he calls incredible accessibility: everything literally at your fingertips.
Workspaces: the discipline that makes tiling work
Tiling fills a screen fast. Three applications in and most of the real estate is spoken for, which is why workspaces are, in his words, how you really must use a tiling window manager. Super plus 2 hops to a second workspace instantly, no delay, no animation, nothing to wait for, and he fills it with btop to prove the point.
His discipline: dedicate workspaces to roles and keep them consistent. Workspace one is communications, the browser, WhatsApp, Signal. Workspace two is the terminal and programming, "that's where my agents will be pinging me and dinging me." Workspace three depends on hardware: a laptop needs more workspaces, while his desktop's 6K display fits more per space. The advice is to use them consistently enough that muscle memory knows where everything lives.
tmux and Herdr: multiplexing humans and agents
On the terminal workspace he shows the two multiplexer paths. tmux has been his tool for years and starts preconfigured on Super plus Alt plus Return, splits, panes, all neatly set up. But now that he works heavily with agents, he has grown to like Herdr, started with Ctrl plus Super plus Return. Herdr gives you the same tmux experience, and DHH configured its keybindings to mirror his tmux setup exactly, but it adds agent awareness: a sidebar of your running agents that pings and dings when one is ready or needs attention. On screen he already has Herdr instances working on Omarchy itself, on ttfx, on Writebook, and on the new Omarchy site. "It is super duper helpful and useful."
The Quickshell bar: panels with actual depth
The tiling is Hyprland's job, but the shell, the menu bar and everything hanging off it, is now Quickshell, and the Quattro bar is where DHH clearly spent finessing time. Each element is a panel with real functionality behind it:
Battery, on his beloved Dell XPS 14, includes a battery holding state feature so the machine does not fry the battery when it lives on the charger, plus power profiles that automatically pick performance when plugged in and balanced on battery.
Display controls brightness, text size, and scaling. He is running 4x scaling on the 6K display specifically so the YouTube video is legible without squinting.
Audio covers inputs, outputs, and muting.
Wi-Fi, also on Super plus Ctrl plus W, is a small network center: toggle Wi-Fi, run a speed test, join a different network, and even switch DNS provider. He uses Cloudflare DNS, "a great fast DNS provider," and Cloudflare also hosts Omarchy itself. Hero cards up top show live essentials like packet loss.
Bluetooth for pairing.
Then the panels you will not see on a fresh install, because they appear as you adopt the services. Super plus Ctrl plus 1 is his Dropbox panel. Super plus Ctrl plus 2 is Tailscale, which he skips showing because his tailnet addresses are in it, but it includes built-in Taildrop, so two Omarchy machines can drag and drop files to each other. Super plus Ctrl plus 3 is the agents panel, which appears automatically once you start using coding agents and tracks usage and limits per model. His own graph shows heavy use of Fable "as soon as my resets came in."
For sending files to anything else, iPhone, Android, Windows, whatever, the menu's Share flow (or Super plus Ctrl plus S) hands off to LocalSend: pick a file or your clipboard, send it to a nearby device, or receive from one.
Figure 2. The Quattro stack. The big architectural shift of version 4: Omarchy used to be a git checkout living loose in your home directory, where editing a file meant your next update could break. Now Omarchy is a system package like everything else, Quickshell replaces a pile of separate shell programs with one, and everything personal lives in a layer on top that survives every update.
Updates, weather, and a memento mori
A little spinning arrow at the left of the bar means Omarchy updates are pending; clicking it asks politely whether to run them now and reminds you to be on power. The built-in weather widget reads a lovely 23 degrees C in Copenhagen, and clicking it lets him switch the city to Malibu, California, in Fahrenheit, before returning to geolocation. The calendar panel shows how much of the year is left and flips through months.
And then the Easter egg: double click the bar and it turns into a life countdown. Enter when you were born and how long you intend to live, and the bar quietly shows how much life is left. "If you need a little reminder of memento mori on a day like August 14," he grins, and double clicks it away.
The indicator row also holds silent and do not disturb mode, stay awake mode (which he is using so the screensaver does not interrupt the recording), nightlight, and reminders. He sets one live: in 90 minutes, "release Omarchy Quattro." Dictation is there too, powered by an AI tool called Voxtype. And the screen recording indicator is glowing because the video itself is being captured by Omarchy's built-in recorder, webcam overlay included.
Capture and the global clipboard
Super plus Ctrl plus C opens the capture menu. Screenshots can grab a window or a dragged region, land on the clipboard, and open in an editor popup from the notification for resizing and markup. Screen recordings work the same way, with or without the webcam. And there is built-in text recognition: drag a box over anything on screen and the OCR result lands on your clipboard as text, ready to paste.
Which sets up one of the sleeper quality-of-life features: Omarchy has global unified clipboard commands. Super plus C copies and Super plus V pastes everywhere, terminal included, no ctrl-shift gymnastics. Super plus Ctrl plus V opens a searchable clipboard history covering text and screenshots, and if something confidential is in there, hitting Delete removes that entry on the spot.
Aesthetics: themes, Aether, and total coordination
"Aesthetics is a huge part of Omarchy. I want my computer to look beautiful." Out of the box it runs Tokyo Night, color coordinated across the terminal, the bar, everything. Double click the desktop background to cycle wallpapers, including the new Quattro rally car, the previous version's art, and the original returning as a throwback. The real showpiece is the theme picker on Ctrl plus Super plus Shift plus Space: around 20 built-in themes, filterable as you type. He calls out Kanagawa as an absolute classic and Solitude as a personal favorite, the latter with an exclusive trick: rounded corners integrated through every button and widget of the Quickshell setup.
Then theme creation. Aether, included in Quattro, builds themes from images: browse Wallhaven inside the app, pick a wallpaper, extract its colors, hit Ctrl plus Return, and a brand new theme applies across the entire system on the spot. He demos it live with a Quattro rally car image, shrugs that the extracted palette is maybe not his favorite, and swaps back, because that is the point, themes are cheap now. Good ones deserve publishing: the Install menu takes a git repo URL and installs any community theme (he notices mid-demo that the installer prompt still references an old URL, "I will fix that up," which is very much the energy of a launch day video).
Learn: the manual and the exposed internals
The Learn section of the menu is his answer to the discoverability problem. Beyond the searchable keybindings, Quattro ships a proper manual, "a comprehensive tour of the whole thing," because, in his words, software products should ship with good manuals (The Omarchy Manual lives online too). Learn also links the constituent parts: Arch, Neovim, Bash, tmux, Herdr, each with searchable command references.
Then he demonstrates the config philosophy. Every Hyprland configuration file is exposed through the menu in your preferred editor, Neovim by default. He opens the look-and-feel config, uncomments the rounded corners setting, saves, and it fails, because he accidentally commented out a comment. Omarchy catches it with built-in error detection instead of silently breaking the shell. Fix the line, save, and the corners round themselves in real time. Undo, save, square again. All of these configs can be checked into your own git repo and carried to any new machine.
Community: Discord and 114 plugins on day one
The community Discord linked from omarchy.org has about 4,000 people online during the recording, and he waves at them mid-video. It is where themes get shared, problems get solved, and now plugins circulate. The better index for those is omarchyplugins.com, a community site run by a community member, already listing 114 plugins "for a distribution that's only literally just getting released today."
He is straight about the risk model: plugins are not sandboxed. Before installing one you should be comfortable with the code or the author, the same discipline as the AUR, or npm, or RubyGems: know what you are running on your machine. Eventually, he says, they will probably build an AI-powered checker so you do not have to worry about it. For now, eyes open.
The fun drawer: emoji, transcoding, crash capture
Super plus Ctrl plus E pops an emoji bar anywhere: search, select, and it lands on the clipboard. He pastes one into a fresh LazyVim buffer half expecting the font to break, and it renders perfectly. "This is Neovim and emojis. Very advanced Linux stuff here."
The Trigger menu also hides a transcoder: pick any image, convert it to a medium JPEG, and it is on the clipboard "ready to be pasted into a funny tweet." And there is crash capture: once you configure a default agent, any application crash produces a notification you can click to have your agent diagnose it. If the problem is Omarchy itself, the agent even knows how to format a proper bug report with the details the team needs, and asks permission before filing it.
The screensaver, the bar you can throw around, and a Gruvbox detour
The screensaver deserves its own paragraph because DHH gives it one. Firing it from the System menu unleashes "this spectacle of ancient ANSI color glory," a love letter to the bulletin board systems he ran in the 90s, an elite warez board on a US Robotics modem screaming through a 56k handshake. The effects come from a terminal text effects engine the team just rewrote in Rust, ttfx, making it "a gazillion times faster" (the original is terminaltexteffects; the Rust port ships with Quattro). Each activation picks a random effect.
Back in the toggles, you can hide the menu bar entirely, but better: you can drag it. To the left edge if you are, as he puts it, Tim Sweeney and must have it on the left. To the bottom. Back to the top. Double click it and it goes translucent, and the translucency analyzes your background image to choose white or black text for legibility. "I am kind of proud of that feature."
Then a benchmark detour that turns into a style lesson. The disk speed test on the Gen 5 SSD in the XPS pulls around 13 gigabytes a second, "bonkers," and of course the gauge is color coordinated with the theme. He theme-hops mid-benchmark: the Lumon theme, then, the one he was actually hunting for, Gruvbox, "a classic," which pairs the retro palette with an 18th century painting as a wallpaper. "It doesn't all have to be hyper hacker movie. It can also be like, I am a man of fine arts." He stays in Gruvbox for a while purely because it pleases him.
Style deep cuts: lock screens, fonts, and ASCII branding
The Style menu keeps going. You can change the lock screen art, and most options match themes, but the Lumon one is a full Severance homage for logging in "to do the important but mysterious work that you should not question." There are also Omacom, Tokyo Night, and Advanced Black variants, the last designed to look spectacular on OLED panels.
Fonts: JetBrains Mono by default, Liberation available, and an installer for more. He installs Bitstream, an old favorite, and the moment it lands, the terminal, the menu, everything switches typeface system-wide. "When I'm telling you that all this is color coordinated and really integrated, I mean it." He likes it enough to keep it.
The About menu shows the machine, 64 GB of RAM, the dev channel build, foot as terminal, package count, uptime, and the Omarchy logo in ASCII. Which you can replace: point it at any image and Omarchy converts it to ASCII art, so he brands his About screen with the 37signals logo, then sets the screensaver from an image too, turning the idle screen into "a wonder and celebration of 37signals." The point lands hard: "This is your computer, right? I am preparing it omakase for you... but then you can tweak it exactly how you like it and you can make it yours." And if you break something, Restore Default puts everything back.
Setup: monitors, keybindings, and the compose key
Setup exposes the practical machinery. Monitors are a text file, but text scaling now also has a direct control ("or I'm 60 years old and I need glasses now. This is big."). Keybindings are fully overridable, and you can even switch off every Omarchy default and rewrite the whole map. Input covers scroll acceleration and the Caps Lock remap that trips up newcomers: Caps Lock is the compose key. Compose then M then Y produces a thumbs up emoji. Compose, Space, E types the email address you gave during setup for your git config; Compose, Space, N types your name. He adds a custom entry live, a work shortcut expanding to the 37signals URL, edits the XCompose file by hand, mutters that the manual reload step "seems barbaric, I should set this up better," runs it, and the new expansion works.
Setup is also where DNS lives (Cloudflare, Google, or your own), plus a generator that renders your Wi-Fi network as a QR code so a phone can join instantly.
The default agent and mise, the out of band updater
Defaults is where the agentic OS gets configured. Quattro bakes in the notion of a default agent: the one summoned by Ctrl plus Super plus Shift plus A, and the one crash capture hands diagnoses to. His current pick is Grok, because "Grok 4.6 just dropped at the time of this video and it's a wonderful model I've been playing with." Switching is a couple of keystrokes: Claude, Codex, opencode, Gemini, Crush, Oh My Pi (see the release notes for the full roster). He hunts for one he has not already installed on this machine, fails repeatedly, "I've used everything," and finally finds Oh My Pi, which installs on selection.
The installation detail matters. All agents install through mise, deliberately, because mise is an out of band upgrader and "these agents update about 17 times a day." You do not want your entire system's package update cycle chained to that pace. Instead, mise up in any terminal updates every installed agent (and everything else mise manages) independently of system packages. Full system updates also refresh them, but the fast lane is always there.
Plugins: toggle, drag, clone, own
The plugin system gets the deep dive it deserves, since it is the flagship Quattro feature. Nearly all built-in bar plugins ship enabled, but not all: the active window display (showing the focused app's name in the bar) is off by default because it is not his favorite, and toggling it on and off takes seconds. He removes the clock, "look in the middle. It's Friday 15:03. Now it's not. Now it's gone," puts it back, then drags bar elements from one side to the other, live. All of it persists into your shell JSON file, which, like everything else, you can check into your repo.
The killer mechanic is cloning. Want your own version of the clock? Clone the plugin and your copy supersedes the built-in one, permanently yours, never overwritten by an Omarchy update. This is the payoff of the packaging revolution: "Omarchy used to be a git repo checkout straight into userland in your home directory, and if you changed some of those files and then updated, well, voila, kaboom." In Quattro, Omarchy is a system package you do not edit; your changes layer on top like a stack, and you end up with your own system.
Omarchy before Quattro
Omarchy Quattro
How it ships
Git checkout straight into your home directory
System package, your changes layer on top
Surviving updates
Edited files could break on update, "voila, kaboom"
Clone a plugin, your copy supersedes the built-in
The shell
Several separate programs around Hyprland
One Quickshell process: bar, menus, notifications, lock screen
The bar
Fixed
Draggable to any edge, translucent on double click, plugin based
Figure 3. What Quattro actually changes, in DHH's own framing from the video. The packaging shift is the structural one: it converts customization from a liability that updates destroy into a supported layer that updates respect.
Vibe-coding a world clock with Grok
Then the demo that ties the whole thesis together. Before recording, he wanted a time zone plugin for the bar like one he had seen for the Mac. So he searched, found the Mac app, pointed Grok at the URL, and said "make me a plugin like that." What came back, with zero manual coding, "straight vibe-coded plugin goodness," is a working world clock bar plugin where New York is represented by the Statue of Liberty, Los Angeles by the Hollywood sign, and Tokyo rounds out the set. "These are the cities I would put on there." It even shipped a time travel feature he had not tried until this moment, scrubbing all the clocks forward and back together. "Thank you, Grok." He might rebuild it a little less spacious, but the point is made: turning your operating system into exactly what you want it to be is now a sentence you type.
The scale of Quattro
Mid-tour he steps back to size the release. This is not a five minute video because Quattro is not a small release: three plus months of work, more than a thousand pull requests, built together with Ryan Hughes (@ryanrhughes) and a crowd of contributors who, he says, made Quattro "so much more than what I had in mind when I started building Omarchy." Some of that is agent acceleration; some is the team getting really deep into Quickshell. Meanwhile the ISO shrank: everything in this video ships in under 6 GB, and on a fast machine the install takes about one minute. "You could probably have installed Omarchy on like 17 different machines" in the time it takes to watch the tour, he jokes. Maybe 22.
SSH keys straight off GitHub, stolen from the best
One of his favorite conveniences: setting up an Omarchy machine for remote access, "especially if you're going to connect to it remotely with an agent." Under Setup, Security, the SSH server flow opens the firewall, then asks where the authorized public keys should come from, and the answer can be your GitHub username. Type a handle and it fetches that user's registered public keys straight from GitHub, the same trick as github.com/dhh.keys. "I mean, you could enter DHH and then I'll have access to your machine, but like, don't do that. Or do that if you want to start a party and I'm invited." From then on he can reach the machine from anywhere over his Tailscale network. He credits the idea openly: "Great artists steal. And I totally stole this from Ubuntu Server Edition." Machines with fingerprint scanners, like the Framework laptop, also get offered fingerprint enrollment at install for sudo and unlock.
Snapshots: the undo button for your whole OS
Every Omarchy update takes a snapshot of your system first. If a package slips through and breaks something, reboot and the boot menu offers the snapshots; pick the one from before the update and your machine works again, and you can promote that snapshot to current. Omarchy itself is part of those packages now, so rolling back rolls back Omarchy too, a lesson learned from past Arch updates that broke things. Prefer a faster boot with no snapshot screen? Toggle direct boot and reach the snapshot menu through the boot loader only when you need it.
Fresh Quattro installs go one further: a factory snapshot taken at install time. At any point you can reset to it, "it's like you wiped your computer and it's super fast," which makes handing off or selling the machine safe, because the disk was encrypted and the reset throws away the keys. The one caveat: only new installs from the Quattro ISO get the factory snapshot; upgrades from earlier Omarchy versions get everything else.
Figure 4. How Omarchy turns rolling-release Arch into something you can trust a daily driver to. Packages age one month in quarantine unless security demands a bump, everything is served from Omarchy's own Cloudflare-hosted mirror, a snapshot precedes every update, and the boot menu can always walk you back.
Install: 15,000 packages, the AUR, and Omarchy's own mirror
The Install menu opens with the full official Arch repository, about 15,000 packages vetted by the Arch team, searchable and multi-selectable (Tab marks packages, Return installs the batch). Below that sits the AUR with its 117,000 packages, which he calls a treasure while acknowledging it "has had a little bit of a rough year," outages and security issues included. His guidance: official vendor-controlled packages like Brave's are safe; for anything else, Alt plus B shows you the actual build script before you run it, and while nobody audits everything, knowing what runs on your machine is the point.
Crucially, Omarchy no longer depends on the AUR at all. After the AUR outages broke installs, the team built their own package repository: they take build cookbooks from the AUR, build them themselves, verify them themselves, and host them, "well, we don't. We host it on Cloudflare. Thank you, Cloudflare." That CDN is why Omarchy downloads are fast worldwide with no mirror roulette, shipping "petabytes and petabytes" of ISOs and updates. The mirror also carries all 15,000 official Arch packages, held one month behind the bleeding edge so a rogue package cannot take your system down the day it lands. The delay is not dogma: important fixes and security issues get bumped through immediately, and otherwise a dead man's switch updates the mirror monthly.
Channels formalize the tradeoff. Stable, the default, rides one month back. RC gets release candidates for testers. Edge floats on the very latest packages for people who cannot wait. Dev is a git checkout for people working on Omarchy itself, "don't go to the dev channel just because you want to try new things. You might have a bad time."
Web apps you make yourself, and uninstall from the launcher
Remember the frameless X app? Super plus Shift plus Y opens YouTube the same way ("two of my favorite topics, fast cars and Rust and AI," he notes, as his subscriptions betray him). Making your own is an Install menu flow: name the app, paste the URL, and Omarchy fetches the site's icon off the internet automatically. He builds one live for Politiken, his Danish newspaper, and seconds later it launches from the app menu in beautiful frameless form.
Just as satisfying: removal happens where you already are. Hover any app in the launcher, hit Delete, and it uninstalls, web app or real package alike, demonstrated by nuking Moonlight on the spot. "Why do you have to go to a separate place? It's when I look at my list of applications that I know I want to uninstall something." TUIs get the same treatment as web apps: btop lives on Super plus Ctrl plus T, lazydocker on Super plus Shift plus D, and you can wrap any terminal UI of your own the same way.
Services and the one-keystroke dev environment
The Services installer covers Dropbox, Tailscale, NordVPN, Bitwarden, 1Password, and a shim that lets your Google account work in Chromium, no switch to Chrome required.
Then the developer flex. Installing the Ruby on Rails environment is one menu selection: mise pulls a prebuilt Ruby 4, installs Rails on top, and you are "ready to cook and rock and roll." He scaffolds a live app using try, Tobi Lütke's neat experiment-directory tool that ships in Omarchy by default, runs rails new blog, generates a post scaffold, migrates, and boots the server. Bonus foot trick on the way: Ctrl plus Shift plus O highlights every URL in the terminal scrollback with a letter, press the letter and the browser opens it, no copy paste. "I'm not even doing a Rails demo here. I'm just showing off Omarchy, and how quickly you can develop freaking anything." The same Development menu covers Node, Bun, Deno, PHP and Laravel, and Dockerized databases to develop against.
Editors and terminals, all theme-synced
Neovim is the house editor, with the honest sales pitch: "You should give Neovim a try. It's really fun, they said. And then you're going to curse at me and the world for three days as you try to learn it." So VS Code is one install away, and he notes with some surprise that Vaxry, Hyprland's creator, uses VS Code, "there's a reason it is the most popular editor in the world." The detail that delights him: install VS Code, switch the Omarchy theme, and VS Code switches with it. Even software that is not part of the default install is theme coordinated.
Terminals get the same buffet. foot is default because "Omarchy needs to work on beat-up laptops from like 2011" without the GPU muscle fancier terminals want. But installing Ghostty from the menu arrives preconfigured and color coordinated, tabs on Ctrl plus Shift plus T, and it silently becomes the system default terminal. Alacritty and Kitty are in the menu, maybe WezTerm someday, and yes, when he theme-hops again, Ghostty repaints instantly with everything else.
The AI menu: YOLO aliases and a repackaged ChatGPT
Agents install through the terminal via mise, and Omarchy sugarcoats the invocation: he runs claude, then shows the alias cx, which launches Claude in bypass permissions mode, "YOLO mode. Run with everything." (He notes the vendors tell him auto mode is now almost as good at not nagging while being safer, "so maybe we'll switch to that in the future.") cy does the same for Codex. Agents are not preinstalled, but the first time you run claude on a fresh Omarchy, mise fetches the latest version automatically.
Heavier AI apps live in the Install menu: LM Studio, Ollama, and the ChatGPT desktop app, which just came to Linux alongside the Codex app and which the Omarchy team has repackaged and hosts on their own package repository. He opens his Codex app history hoping for something embarrassing, "'How does Linux work? How do I quit Neovim?' That would be funny, wouldn't it? No, I don't."
Gaming: Proton, a Fortnite plea, and a basement streaming rig
"Oh, gaming. Oh, I love games." The Install menu carries Steam, RetroArch, Minecraft, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Battle.net for your StarCraft needs. His thesis: "Gaming on Linux has gotten unreasonably good," and the credit goes to Valve, whose Steam Deck runs Arch and whose Proton compatibility layer has brought tens of thousands of Windows games to Linux. His own favorite is Tetris Effect. He skips the live install because of download sizes and promises a dedicated Omarchy gaming video.
Fortnite gets a personal plea: "Tim Sweeney, we're making Fortnite happen on Linux, right? That's a deal, right?" Until it runs natively, cloud streaming covers it, and if you live close to a datacenter it is indistinguishable: Ryan Hughes in Miami sits six milliseconds from a GeForce Now cluster and "you cannot tell the difference." The Moonlight client he uninstalled earlier is the local version of the same idea: DHH keeps a Windows machine downstairs for his racing sim, with a 5090 class GPU howling its fans in the basement, and streams Fortnite from it to his Omarchy machine hardwired upstairs. "I challenge anyone. It's crazy."
And the benchmark question is settled, in his telling: YouTubers have compared Omarchy against dedicated gaming distros and found essentially no difference, "and of course there isn't, because we're all just built on top of the Linux kernel," given the right drivers and setup. You do not need a dedicated distro for gaming.
For the Windows things gaming cannot excuse, Omarchy installs Windows in a VM that runs "super fast," full screen, indistinguishable, ideal for Excel or that one work application. No GPU passthrough, so it is not Windows for gaming, and professional use wants a license key, which your PC probably came with.
Remove anything, including the "bloat"
The Remove menu mirrors Install: packages, web apps, development environments (he actually removes Ruby on Rails just to prove it takes one keystroke, then points out reinstalling is equally trivial), external themes, dictation, services. Removing the SSH server is a proper cleanup: it closes the firewall, deletes the authorized keys, and stops the service.
Then the rant, delivered with theatrical exasperation at people who call Omarchy bloated: "It's six gigabytes. Most of the things in there that you think is bloat is like 50 kilobytes, or not even 50 kilobytes, bytes, because they're just web app wrappers." But Omarchy is a big tent, so Quattro ships Remove Pre-installs, one command that strips every curated application and leaves "a very barren landscape" with the themes and integrations intact. "If you're one of these people, this is for you."
There is also a rescue aisle: reset any config (Hyprland, tmux, whatever you broke) back to factory, restart the shell if Quickshell or Hyprland misbehaves, and restart individual hardware drivers, audio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, even the trackpad, without rebooting. Update your disk encryption password, your user password, or your timezone (he sets Copenhagen) from the same menu.
The Oma apps: Omawrite, Omacut, Omacalc
Quattro ships three tiny homegrown apps, and their origin story is the video's best confession. Omawrite replaces Typora, the previous default markdown editor, which is good software you should pay for if you need its features, but DHH just wanted a place to write essays. Omawrite is "simply the most basic possible writing app": markdown, Ctrl plus B bolding, and his favorite trick, select a word and paste a URL onto it to make a link instantly. Save, open, done. "That's all it has."
Mid-demo the unreleased theme he is wearing renders the highlight colors wrong, which is exactly why it is unreleased, so he theme-swaps and the app repaints correctly, color coordinated out of the box. Then the kicker: "By the way, this one I built in C++. I've been flexing my new C++ models. I don't know any C++, but Claude does. And Claude is really good. Yeah, this is vibe coded. Are you freaking out right now?" His rule for when that is fine: you have to know how to steer it, you should be able to review it, and the criticality has to be low enough. A tiny markdown editor qualifies. The code is open, forkable, and he pulls up the repo on the Omarchy GitHub org with community pull requests already flowing.
Omacut is the same philosophy applied to video: a dead simple trimmer he uses to cut clips for posting on X, built in C++ with Qt, about two megabytes, hotkeys behind a question mark. He trims the intro of this very video with it on camera. Omacalc, on Super plus Ctrl plus Q, is "a nice looking calculator that is fully themable. Isn't that gorgeous?"
Music and the rest of the roster
Spotify is wonderful and he uses it, but it costs about 400 megabytes of RAM and 1.2 GB of disk, so Omarchy lazy-installs it: the first press of Super plus Shift plus M offers to install it. The alternative on Super plus Shift plus Alt plus M is CLIAMP, "freaking cool," a Winamp-style terminal player with radio stations built in and optional Spotify hookup, running in roughly 40 megabytes, perfect for memory constrained machines.
The rest of the preinstalled roster flies by: Zoom, the YouTube web app, a PDF signing tool he plans to replace with an Oma-style signer soon ("don't get too attached to it"), Signal, OBS (which recorded this video's intro), Neovim, a media player, LibreOffice for Word documents and PowerPoints, Kdenlive (where he will edit this footage), the Google web apps ("not everyone likes it... I actually like the Google services"), and the freshly installed Ghostty. One aside for fellow racers: an app he pronounces Alatra, built by Tobi Lütke for analyzing race track videos and data, is not part of Omarchy but earns his recommendation anyway.
The agentic OS, and the off switch
The wind-down is the thesis stated plainly. He could not have built Quattro without "all our new agent friends," from Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and the open source models. And Omarchy leans in as an operating system: it ships skills, so when your agent works on an Omarchy machine, it knows the OS, how crash diagnosis works, how capture works, how the pieces fit. "We are really leaning into the fact that Omarchy is an agentic operating system."
He addresses the eye-roll head on: "I know that sounds like everyone is shoving AI into everything, and we don't want it in all the places we don't want it. But if you're using the agent to accelerate stuff on your behalf, I love that." And the opt-out is genuinely one gesture: the default agent invitation is a notification, right click dismisses it, and then "there's no AI. I mean, there's AI in development, but you can use Omarchy without any AI at all. So don't freak out."
The close is pure launch energy. Omarchy gives you the omakase version, great defaults that are wonderful to use and wonderful to change. Windows users now get offered dual boot at install, just free up disk space first. The install takes a minute on a fast machine, maybe two or three on a slow one. "Burn that ISO. Get on the Omarchy train. Get involved with Quattro. Get involved with the community. Build some stuff. Experiment. Embrace Linux. This is the year of Linux on the desktop."
2024Omakub: DHH's first opinionated Linux, an omakase setup script for Ubuntu, proves the concept of pre-invested nerd hours.
2025Omarchy 1.0: the jump to Arch plus Hyprland, shipped as a git checkout into your home directory. "The past year since the original release" of iteration begins.
2025-26The iteration year: encrypted installs, the snapshot and rollback system, and Omarchy's own Cloudflare-hosted package mirror after the AUR's outages, holding packages in a one month quarantine.
2026Quattro development: three plus months, 1,000+ pull requests with Ryan Hughes and contributors, "fully agent accelerated," the shell rebuilt on Quickshell.
Aug 14Quattro ships: pluggable bar, system packaging, dual boot, factory reset, sub 6 GB ISO, and omarchyplugins.com already listing 114 community plugins on day one.
NextTeased on camera: the Giants theme (Turing and von Neumann artwork) sketched for 4.1, a dedicated Omarchy gaming video, an Oma PDF signer, and AI-powered vetting for community plugins.
Figure 5. The Omakub to Quattro arc as told in the video. The trajectory: from a script that configures Linux, to a distribution, to a platform with its own package mirror, plugin ecosystem, and agent layer.
Key takeaways
Omarchy Quattro is version 4 of DHH's opinionated Linux, built on Arch, Hyprland, and now Quickshell, released August 14, 2026 after three plus months and over 1,000 pull requests, and aimed explicitly at Windows and Mac users, not just Linux veterans.
The structural change: Omarchy is now a system package instead of a git checkout in your home directory. Your customizations live in a layer on top, and cloning a bar plugin gives you a copy that updates can never clobber.
The Quickshell bar is the new face: draggable to any edge, translucent on double click with automatic contrast, and composed of plugins you toggle, rearrange, and replace. omarchyplugins.com listed 114 community plugins on launch day, unsandboxed, so read before you install.
The whole system is keyboard first. Super plus Space is the command center, Super plus K makes every binding searchable and executable, and global Super C and Super V copy and paste work everywhere, terminal included.
Reliability comes from a pipeline: Omarchy's own Cloudflare-hosted mirror holds Arch packages in a one month quarantine (security fixes skip ahead), every update snapshots the system first, the boot menu rolls back, and fresh installs carry a factory snapshot that makes wiping or selling the machine trivial.
Agents are woven in but optional: a default agent wired to crash diagnosis, agents installed and updated out of band through mise because "they update 17 times a day," OS skills that teach agents Omarchy, and a live demo of Grok vibe-coding a working bar plugin from a URL. Dismiss one notification and none of it exists.
Everything is theme coordinated, aggressively: terminals, the bar, disk benchmarks, Omawrite, even a freshly installed VS Code repaint together when you switch among the roughly 20 themes, and Aether builds new themes from any wallpaper.
Daily driver credentials are the pitch: Rails, Node, Bun, PHP, or Docker databases in one keystroke via mise, gaming through Steam and Proton with performance equal to gaming distros, Windows in a VM for the leftovers, and now dual boot at install. The ISO is under 6 GB and installs in about a minute.
Chapters
0:00 The pitch: a new kind of computer
2:20 First look: no dock, the Super key, the Omarchy menu
3:25 Super K: every keybinding, searchable
4:05 Terminals and the tiling dance
4:55 Browsers and frameless web apps
5:55 What ships in the box
6:50 Workspaces
7:45 tmux and Herdr, the agent multiplexer
9:25 The Quickshell bar: battery, display, audio
10:40 The Wi-Fi panel, Cloudflare DNS, speed tests
"This is a new kind of computer for people who just love computers, who want to be able to change their operating system, but don't necessarily have all the nerd creds or the nerd time." (0:55)
"I've been investing thousands of hours into this operating system. And now, thanks to agents and AI, you can evolve that system as you see fit." (1:25)
"These agents update about 17 times a day. So you don't want that tied to your system packages." (36:55)
"Great artists steal. And I totally stole this from Ubuntu Server Edition." (44:10)
"Gaming on Linux has gotten unreasonably good." (1:04:15)
"I'm not going to keep you for six hours. This is not a Lex Fridman interview. Calm down." (1:07:55)
"It's six gigabytes. Most of the things that are in there that you think is bloat is like 50 kilobytes, or not even 50 kilobytes, bytes, because they're just web app wrappers." (1:10:20)
"I don't know any C++, but Claude does. And Claude is really good. Yeah, this is vibe coded. Are you freaking out right now?" (1:15:20)
"This is your operating system and you can change it to your heart's content. I hope that you do." (1:20:45)
"Burn that ISO. Get on the Omarchy train. Embrace Linux. This is the year of Linux on the desktop." (1:21:10)
Where it stands
An honest footnote, clearly separate from the tour above. This is a launch day video by the product's author, and it is exactly as promotional as that implies: every rough edge that appears on camera (the stale installer URL, the unreleased theme's broken highlight color, the "barbaric" manual XCompose reload) is charming precisely because DHH controls the frame. That said, the substance holds up unusually well for a hype video. The one month package quarantine, pre-update snapshots, and factory reset are real, conservative engineering answers to Arch's genuine rolling-release fragility, and the packaging shift from git checkout to layered system package fixes the most legitimate criticism of earlier Omarchy. The open questions are the honest ones he raises himself: bar plugins run unsandboxed with vetting left to you, at least until the promised AI checker exists; the flagship Oma apps are vibe-coded C++ that DHH admits he cannot personally review, defensible at calculator-and-text-editor criticality but a philosophy some will reject on principle; and claims like gaming parity with dedicated distros rest on community benchmarks rather than anything shown on screen. If you want the counterweight to the enthusiasm, it is all in the AUR section: know what you are running on your machine.
Resources mentioned
Omarchy, the download and home of everything in this video
Lex Fridman, invoked only to promise this video is not six hours long
Full transcript
Um is a beautiful modern and opinionated
Linux system built on top of Arch
Hyperlan and now QuickShell. This latest
version, Quattro, is a huge upgrade over
the previous versions we've been
iterating on for the past year since the
original release of Omachi. It is fully
agent accelerated in its construction. I
have been employing about a million of
our new digital helpers to really speed
up the development process and also
baked a bunch of those goodies into the
operating system itself. I'm going to
show you how everything works. I'm going
to show you some of all the new stuff
that we have in Quattro. You don't need
to know about Amachi already to be able
to enjoy this video. Don't you worry. I
will take you on the complete tour of
everything because Amachi is not just
trying to speak to the choir. It's not
just trying to speak to people who
already know Linux, who have already
been using the system for a long time.
Nope. This is a mission to give people
on Windows and Mac a different, better,
more malible alternative as their
operating system. Because that is really
the big pitch of Umachi, that this is a
new kind of computer for people who just
love computers, who want to be able to
change their operating system, but don't
necessarily have all the nerd creds or
the nerd time to invest hundreds, if not
thousands of hours into their own
bespoke setup. You don't have to do
that. I've been doing that. I've been
investing thousands of hours into this
operating system. And now, thanks to
agents and AI, you can evolve that
system as you see fit, you will
experience the joy of adding your own
panels, adding your own applications if
that floats your boat. And if it does
not, you can simply tap into all the
wonderful community
um panels and plugins that have already
been created for Quattro. This is a gift
of our new quick shell powered desktop.
So, I think you're going to love all of
it. I think you are probably ready for
something new. If you're watching this
video, you're at least a little curious
about what a new operating system
experience could be like? What if your
computer was no longer a Mac? What if
your PC no longer ran Windows? What if
you embraced the beautiful future of
Linux? And if you're so inclined,
invited a few agent friends along the
way to really level everything up. Let
me show you how it all works. All right,
so this is the Umachi Quattro new
default background. I think it looks
quite nice. You have that little stag
from the earlier versions down in the
left hand side. But let's get going with
the introduction here. The first thing
you'll notice when you start Umachi is
that there is no dock. There are no
icons to click on. There is just a
beautiful background layer and an
expectation that you are going to learn
how to use this system predominantly
through the keyboard. And the most
important command you have to remember
is super and that by the way is the same
as the Windows key or the command key.
So super space opens up the umi menu.
That's where you control everything.
That's where you can start apps from.
That's where you can trigger things and
do the styling and the setup and
installation and so forth. And of
course, we have if uh you must use a
mouse, you can go up here and you can
click the uh um icon up in the top left
corner and you're going to get back to
the um menu. But we're going to start
straight with keyboard driving. And all
of these keyboard commands you can find
on Super K. You can bring up this
wonderful menu and then you can even
filter it down here. If I want to see
all the things that have something to do
with notifications, I just write that.
or if I want to see what it is about
browsers and how I started those. I can
type that and you can even go down and
then hit return on the keybinding that
you want to use and then it'll actually
just trigger it. So here I started a
terminal that would be the same as
hitting super return. Um I'm in a
terminal lovely footback terminal which
by the way you can change to whatever
you want ghosty elacrity kitty what have
you. And if I open another one on super
return, you'll see the magic of the
tiling window manager.
Yeah, I'm not rearranging these uh
windows. I am simply just letting the
dwindle layout manager set them up. And
if I keep opening windows, you can see
they keep uh popping down and being
smaller and smaller here in the corner.
And that means you're never hunting for
these windows. They're always visible.
And you can move them around. So, the
first thing you can do, of course, is if
you hold super down and do the arrow
keys, you switch focus back and forth.
Again, you're not using the mouse here.
And if you want to swap them, you hold
down shift as well. So, super shift
arrows, swap them around. And if you do
super J, you can rearrange their layout
here. Um, let's close one of them. And
then let's open a browser that is on
super shift return. These are the two
most important um key bindings I would
say for my driving of Amachi. I use a
terminal and then I use a browser. And
for example, we could go uh straight to
X here and like yeah okay that looks uh
that looks great but Umachi makes web
applications look even better if we
close out the browser again which by the
way is super W. That's how you close any
application. And if I do super shift X,
I'll start that X web app in this
beautiful frameless setup. This is
simply the best way of looking at a web
application. And we have a bunch of
those set up. We have them set up for X
and we have them set up for hey, email
and calendar and whatever else have you.
Again, you can find all of them here on
the um uh keybindings menu to to do all
of this setup in here. But uh those key
bindings again, you should be learning
the ones you use regularly and the ones
you don't use so regularly. We can hop
back into the Umachi menu on that super
space and you can see all the apps that
are installed by default when you set up
um because um is not this plain stripped
down version of Linux that then leaves
you to rice everything and configure
everything. No, it actually comes
packaged out of the box with everything
that I personally use to use my computer
every day. Now, some of these things I
actually have installed after the fact,
like one password, that's how I use and
store all my credentials. That is set up
as an installer, which by the way, we
can hop into here. Go to install, go to
services, and uh one password be would
be right here if I hadn't already
installed it.
You can also jump straight to the
application menu if you prefer on super
alt space that goes straight there
instead of the superpace and then
hopping into the app. So really trying
to focusing on having that incredible
accessibility where everything is
literally just at your fingertips. That
includes workspaces. Workspaces is how
you really must use a tiling window
manager because as you can see here as
soon as I open three applications I've
used most of the space that I have
available, right? But if I hop over here
on super 2, I'm now on a separate
workspace and I can fill that up with
all sorts of wonderful things like uh
Btop and then I can hop back and forth
between these two workspaces
immediately. There is no delay. There's
no animation. There's nothing to wait
for. And the way I then use um is I
dedicate certain workspaces to certain
things. So on the first workspace I will
generally have my communications. I will
have my browser. I will have my WhatsApp
and my signal and all that other stuff.
And then if I hop over in workspace
number two I will have my terminal. And
as you see before you just start a
normal terminal and you can do your
normal terminal stuff or or you can
start herder or t-mox. I have been using
t-mox for a long time. This is a
multipplexer here. And I can start T-Mox
on uh super alt return. Then I get a
lovely uh T-max setup here that is
neatly configured and we can do splits
and we can do panes and we can start new
things and it's all really nice and I
really like this uh setup with T-Mox.
But now that I'm working a lot with
agents, I have really grown to like
Herder. And you start Herder on control
super return. And as you can see here, I
already have a bunch of Herder instances
running, working on Umachi and TTFX and
Writebook and the new Umachi site. And
the magical thing about Herder is first
of all, it gives you that great T-Max
experience. And I've set it up in
basically exactly the same way as we
have T-Max. So all of those key
bindings, if you're used to those from
my T-Max setup, are the same ones in
Herder. But then you also have your
agents here. So you can jump back and
forth between your agents and it gives a
little ping and a ding when it is ready
or needs your attention. It is super
duper helpful and useful. So that's what
I usually have on workspace number two.
And then on workspace number three, it
kind of depends on whether I'm on a
laptop, you need a few more workspaces
to get things done, or am I sitting at
my desktop with a gorgeous 6K display,
then I can fit a little more on each of
those uh desktops.
Get familiar with your workspaces. Try
to use them consistently so that you
always know that wh two boom that's
where my programming is. That's where my
agents will be pinging me and dinging me
at. And um now I'm ready to work. Now
this whole shell is run on Hyperland.
That's what's doing all of this
wonderful tiling of the windows and the
applications. But it's also running on
something called QuickShell. And
QuickShell is what drives this menu bar.
for example, and the menu bar in Omachi
Quattro is really lovely. I spent a lot
of time just uh finessing everything
here for all the little panels. For
example, here's the battery panel I am
running on my beloved Dell XPS14.
And that has a nice uh battery holding
state feature, by the way, so it doesn't
fry your battery when you use it
connected most of the time. And then you
can set up your power profile. We
automatically choose performance if
you're plugged in or balance if you're
on battery, but you can choose and
change whatever you want. Then we have
the display here, the brightness, the
text size, the scaling. You can see I'm
running out of 4x here on my 6K display
because that is what produces a nice
YouTube video that you can actually
follow along and don't have to squint
for. And of course, you can also control
your audio, all your inputs and your
outputs and muting and on and off. And
by the way, you see I'm using my little
mouse here. You don't have to use your
little mouse. All these things are
hooked up on key command. So, if I go to
uh super controlW for the Wi-Fi, boom, I
am right here on my Wi-Fi panel and I
can control my Wi-Fi panel with the
mouse as well. I can turn my Wi-Fi off.
Uh I'm not going to do that. I can run a
speed test. I can connect to a different
network. I can even change my DNS
provider. I like to use Cloudflare.
Cloudflare is what's hosting Omahachi.
And it's just a a great fast DNS
provider, too. And of course, I get all
my essentials up in these hero card up
here with what's going on with a package
loss and so forth. Now, these are the
defaults built in. So, you have uh super
control W for the Wi-Fi and super
control P for the power. But then I also
have a few other panels here that you
won't see immediately when you install
the mod. And one of them, for example,
is the agents panel. So if I do control
super 3 and I'm counting here from the
left first is Dropbox and then it's tail
scale and then it's my agent. So super
control 3 you're going to see my agent
panel here and you can see I've been
using Fable uh a lot as soon as my
resets came in and I've been using all
of these uh models to do a bunch of the
development on Amachi itself. This is
automatically detected when you start
using agents. you will start seeing that
uh this little panel pops up and you can
track your usage and you can track your
limits. Now if I go supercontrol one you
can see another panel here which is for
Dropbox and then on supercontrol 2 I
also have my panel for tail scale. I'm
not going to show you that right now. It
has my uh tailet addresses in there but
it is really lovely. It includes
built-in tail drop. So, if you're
running two Umachi machines, you can use
that to drop and drag and drop files
back and forth between those machines.
And by the way, if you want to send
files to any other machine, including
your iPhone or your Android or a Windows
machine or or whatever, you can also do
that through the menu here. Um, go down
to trigger and then go down to share and
then go down to file. And let's say I
wanted to uh send something here for my
downloads. Let's send this little file
here. It's going to pop up um with this
local send setup and I can send it to
one of my nearby devices. By the way,
you also have that on super control S.
Boom. Right there. You send your
clipboard, you can send your files or
you can receive something from the um
other device that you have if you're
sending to this machine. So, that's just
a nice little feature that is built into
it. So, anyway, that is pretty much the
panels we have. Of course, also have uh
Bluetooth up there and connecting that
to things. If I uh move left here,
you'll see this little um spinning
arrow. That means that there are pending
omachi updates. I'm not going to run the
updates right now. Actually, let me run
the updates right now. It's just going
to pop up with this. Do I want to do the
update right now? Make sure you're
connected to battery. I'm not going to
do the update right now. Okay, fine.
We're done. Also builtin weather. So,
you can see it's a lovely 23° C here in
Copenhagen. You can click this little
guy and you can actually change that to
another city. Let's do Malibu,
California. And it'll switch it over to
Malibu, California, and do it on uh
Fahrenheit. If I just do the X here,
it's going to go back to just doing the
geol location. We also have uh a nice
little uh calendar here. So, you can see
how much is left of the year, and you
can see the whole calendar. You can go
back and forth. And also a little morbid
uh Easter egg. If you uh double click on
this bar, you can enter how when you
were born and how long you intend to
live and see how much life is left.
Isn't that lovely? If you need a little
uh reminder of momentum momento on a day
like uh August 14, double click that
again and the Easter egg goes away. Then
we also have these uh lovely little
indicators up here. I am currently in um
in silent mode, do not disturb mode, and
I am in stay awake mode. So, I'm keeping
the screen on so we don't we don't pop
into a screen saver, which I'll show you
in just one second. You can also do
nightlight. Uh we even uh reminders.
Let's do that actually. Uh in let's say
90 minutes from now I should release
Omachi
Quattro
and then that'll pop up and remind me in
90 minutes that it's time to release the
quattro. All right. And then you can
also set up here and you can do
dictation. We do that through uh an AI
installation called Vox type. And of
course you have my little uh indication
for the fact that I am doing a screen
recording because this recording right
here is actually also a built-in feature
of omachi. Let me actually show you that
on super control C for the capture menu.
We can take a screenshot. You can either
select a window or we can just do a
little bit of dragging here. And it's
going to save the screenshot to the
clipboard. And then if we click this
little notification, you get this lovely
popup and you can change that screenshot
and make it bigger or whatever. Very
lovely. Save that um somewhere or put it
on your clipboard or just do super w to
close it out. So that's nice for
capturing uh screenshots, but we can
capture a lot of other things. We can
also capture these screen recordings. I
am using this one right now where you
see the webcam that is plugged in down
there. But uh we also have builtin text
recognition which is actually pretty
cool. So if I do this here and then I
markfast.com
I'm going to end up with some text on my
clipboard that I can do just superv on
and paste in. Oh yeah, we have global
unified
clipboard commands in omachi. So super C
is copy and super V is paste everywhere
whether you're in the terminal or
somewhere else. You can also do super
controlV and then you're going to get a
searchable clipboard including
screenshots and whatever else have you
and if there was something inconidential
in there that Z is uh something you want
to get rid of, you can just hit delete.
Boom. It disappears from the clipboard
history. Very practical and lovely to
use. All right, let's hop in and see
what else we have here. Oh, yeah.
Aesthetics. I've barely talked about
aesthetics. Aesthetics is a huge part of
Omachi. I want my computer to look
beautiful. And it does out of the box.
This is the standard setup. We're
running something called Tokyto Knight.
You can see that is all colorcoordinated
whether we in a terminal and whether
we're running on that uh lovely bub
here. But um we can also pick something
else. First, we can pick a different
background image. If I just double click
on that background, I will get this
popup here. And uh would you look at
that? That is a lovely Quattro rally
card that we have built in. This is the
old um image that we had for the past
version. And this is the original
coupoop image that I also just brought
back. So you can change those on just a
double click or you can of course as
always with anything go into the menu,
go to style, go to background, and
you'll see them too. But the more
impressive one is the one we have for
themes. So if I do control super shift
space, I'm going to get the themes
picker here. And we have a bunch of
themes that are built into Omachi. I
think we have about 20 or so now. There
are some really lovely ones. I love uh
Kanagawa, for example. That's an
absolute classic. I also love some of
the new themes that we have, which by
the way, you can just start typing and
it'll filter down. Solitude has become
one of my personal favorites. And one of
the neat things about Solitude, like an
exclusive to that one, is it uses
rounded corners and it is integrated
through everything. All the little
buttons, they're also getting a little
rounded look. Now, normally I would say
our themes tend to like that square
look, and I'm going to return to that
with uh Tokyo Knight, but it's just
lovely that uh all these details are
integrated throughout the QuickShell
setup. So that's themes. Actually, you
might have spotted that I had a few
extra themes because we also have a way
to build your own themes for this stuff.
This is one theme that I have built with
something called ether. Doesn't that
look lovely? Another quattro rally car.
And ether is one of the included
applications here. So if I start that
up, you can simply go to um wall haven
for example. Let's do that. Let's uh
let's pick this one. And you can then
extract all the colors. And if you like
these colors, you hit control return.
And boom, that is a new theme that just
got applied and extracted from that
image. Now, I don't know if these are my
favorite colors, but of course, you can
just uh open up your theme picker again,
and then we can pick something else. If
you make a super nice theme, you should
publish that theme and then folks can
install it. Actually, let's go have a
look at that. So, if we go to the
install menu, by the way, do you see
that I don't have to go down up on the
arrows here? I can filter things down
and then I can go into a menu, but I can
do even more. I can filter now nested.
So, if I type theme, you'll see the
first one is our theme picker, but the
next one is actually a way to install a
new theme. Oh, this is curiously enough
using the old URL. I will fix that up.
And then you just paste in the git repo
URL for your new theme and you'll be
running that theme. So share your themes
if you find some groovy colors. I'm
going to keep on with this uh Tokyo
night theme. So let's keep going through
all the awesome stuff that we have in
Amachi. The first thing here is actually
the learn uh setup. We have our key
bindings. I've already shown you those.
Those are filterable key bindings. But
uh I also want to teach you uh omachi
itself. I we now have a lovely manual
where you can figure out everything and
how it all works and uh you can become
an expert at um it's a really nice
resource. I put a lot of effort into
making this a comprehensive tour of the
whole thing. I think software products
should ship with good manuals. So you
got that and then as you want to learn
much you also should learn the
constituent parts. For example, we have
hyperland here. You can configure
hyperland in all sorts of different
ways. is we actually expose those uh
configuration files everywhere. We could
go just to hyperland here that's under
learn. We could style it. We could set
up the actually let's do the styling
here. So that simply just opens straight
up the configuration file for the look
and feel on hyperland in your preferred
editor. Now out of the box the preferred
editor is Neovim. That is the editor I
use. You can choose that and I'll show
you in just one second how to do that.
But, uh, for example, if we did want
those rounded corners, let's actually do
that right here on the Tokyo night
setup. I'm just going to save that. And
that didn't work.
That didn't work because I commented out
one of the comments. That's kind of
cool, isn't it? That has got this
builtin error detection. And would you
look at that? You got ah nice little
rounded colors or corners. I can just uh
U that out and save again. And voila,
your corners are back to being nice and
square. So that is how you can tweak all
of these uh internals of how hyperl is
configured. Um again comes beautiful out
of the box. You don't have to do
anything but you can do whatever you
want and then you can check those config
files right into your own git repo and
bringing it across to any new system
that you set up. It is really neat. Uh
Arch and Neovim and Bash and T-Mox. pro
herder. By the way, when you're starting
to use these uh multiplexers, they have
a lot of command keys that you really
should learn. And again, just like the
command keys for the entire system, we
have these set up such that you can
search them and find them uh from the
learn menu. Really handful handy. Oh,
and then also you can jump in in the
community Discord and uh actually if you
have any problems or if you need to
learn anything, you saw there was 4,000
people online right now who are talking
about Omachi and hello to all the people
we have in here. you'll find a loving
community who is excited about computers
or if you have problems, if you have
something to share or if you want to
join the community that is building new
themes, for example, you should jump on
the Discord and you can share all your
themes. There are some super duper cool
stuff and we're starting to get that now
with the the plugins as well. That's
part of the Quattro setup. Although, I'd
say a better way to get all this stuff
is actually on the Umachi plug-in um
site. Let me just open that up. Let me
just show you that. And that is on um
plugins.com. That's a community site. It
is run uh by Hankor. There's 114 already
for a distribution that's only literally
just getting released today. Pretty darn
neat. Of course, these are not
sandboxed. So before you install this
and this is the default flow when you
want to add a plugin, you should check
out and make sure that um you're good
with the code or you're good with the
author. We're eventually probably going
to build something in powered by AI that
can check all this stuff out so that you
don't even have to worry about it. But
right now, just bear that in mind. All
right,
let's hop down and see some more fun
stuff. Oh yeah, emojis. Fun stuff on
uh super control E. You could pop up the
emoji bar at any point and you can
search for any emoji and you can just
put it on your clipboard. We had that
before. I will show you this on let's
start a new lazy vim here and we could
pick one here actually. How is that
going to render? Oh, it's going to
render just fine. That's kind of funny.
I thought that uh maybe the font
wouldn't be right, but this looks great.
This is neoim and emojis. Very advanced
Linux stuff here.
Um,
yes, that again you could go into the
trigger. I'm try I've been trying to put
everything into these menus such that
you don't have to remember all these key
bindings. But of course, when you're
using the emojis on daily basis, you
should learn the bindings. Um,
transcoding, you can transcode anything
you've actually, let's just do that.
Let's just transcode an image here.
It'll allows you to open and filter
anything from these uh pictures and turn
it into a JPEG and turn it into a medium
one. And boom, it is on the clipboard
ready to be pasted into a funny tweet if
you got that. Um, let's keep going here.
What else do we have? We got share. I
already showed you that with local uh
search. And then we have these toggles
for the different kinds of setups that
we have like the crash capture. By
default, if you configure a default
agent, I'll show you that too. You can
get crash capture that just happens out
of the box where as soon as an
application crashes, you're going to get
a little notification. You can click it
and then you can have your AI agent try
to diagnose it. If it's a problem with
Umachi itself, it even knows how to
format a bug report well with all the
details that we need to fix it and it'll
ask you for permission to pop it up. But
the one thing I really want to show you
from in here is actually I don't want to
toggle off the screen server. This is
how you toggle it off. I want to show
you the Dawn screen server. So, if we go
down to the system menu here and I start
the screen saver, you're going to get
this spectacle of ancient anti-ASI color
glory. I used to run a bulletin board
system back in the '9s, an elite wear
system. This is exactly the kind of
stuff that we would have in the 90s when
the modem would go jing to establish a
56k
connection on your US robotics
beast of a modem. Now this thing is
going to pick any random effect out of
the uh terminal text effects library uh
a library or command we have actually
just rewritten in rust with the help of
agents and made it a gazillion times
faster. Very lovely stuff. Um, but if we
if we keep going here in these toggles,
you can uh you can turn the menu bar on
and off if you don't want that menu bar.
Actually, instead of turning it on and
off, let me just show you something
else. You can freaking drag the thing.
What if you want it on the side? What if
uh you're like Tim Sweeney and you're
like, I got to have it on the lefth hand
side. That that's the way to rock. Or
you can drag it to the bottom. Or you
can drag it back up top and then if you
double click it, it goes translucent.
Isn't that cool? And this translucency
pretty neat. It actually analyzes your
background image and makes sure that it
picks either white or black color
depending on what would be most legible.
I am kind of proud of that feature. You
can of course always find it um just
searching here on transparency
and do it through the menu. You don't
have to use the mouse for anything in
the system. I am using mostly the mouse
here just to demonstrate things for you
and you can use it for discovery but you
should learn that the keyboard drives
and rules everything in Omachi. So that
is absolutely the way to go. Um what
else do we have here? We have things to
turning off and on laptop displays and
blah blah blah. We have some cool speed
tests. Let's run a speed test here on
the Gen 5 SSD for this XPS. It's
bonkers. It is absolutely crazy that you
can do 13 gigabytes a second on these
modern SSDs. And doesn't that just look
cool? And of course, by the way, is it
colorcoordinated?
Of course, it is color coordinated. What
if I picked uh let's see, what am I
looking for here? I'm looking for the
Lumont theme. And then I'm going to do
another speedrun here for that uh that
that disc. Boom. And now ah I don't know
maybe the background should have been
filtered out a little bit. That doesn't
look as good as I thought it would. The
one I was thinking about now that you're
reminding me here is
um
we have a really ne Oh crap bugs. That
was the one I want. It classic. It
doesn't all have to be hyper hacker
movie. It can also be like I am a man of
fine arts and I appreciate a good
painting here. So, if I run that uh test
again, you'll see. Okay, that looks a
lot nicer, doesn't it? Maybe there's uh
maybe maybe we should have some classic
steampunk dials to go with the 18th
century painting here. But the colors at
least are coordinated. Everything looks
lovely. Let's just let's let's just stay
in this for a little bit. Let's just
stay in this group style. I kind of like
that. And speaking of style, I think we
were done with the trigger. We were done
with the trigger. Let's go to style.
We've already looked at the themes.
We've looked at the background. Oh,
pretty neat thing, too. You can
literally change the unlock screen. Now,
most of these out of the box are just
the different colors that match with
different screens. But look at the Lumon
one. Like, uh, someone paid attention to
the detail there when you log in to do
the important but mysterious work that
you should not question. And, uh, I have
a couple of other fun ones down there
for Omicon, a Tokyo night, and Advanced
Black. This one in particular looks
really good on an OLED screen. So, if
you set that up, that's what you're
going to get when you log in and out of
the system. What else can we do with
style? We could pick a different font.
It comes out of the box with Jet Brains
Mono, but you could pick uh a liberation
font. And if you don't like any of these
fonts, by the way, we could also install
some fonts like here's some fonts you
could install. Like, if you like uh
Bitstream, that's actually one I used to
like a lot. So, if we install that one,
we're going to get a little popup that
shows us uh the installation here. And
voila. You see that? You pay attention.
This is now BitstStream. And if I open
the menu, it is also now Bitstream. And
if I open a terminal, it is also now
Bitstream. When I'm telling you that all
this is colorcoordinated and really
integrated, I mean it is very
colorcoordinated, fully integrated,
including the fonts.
But I have come to really like that uh
bitstream font. So let's just hop back
to the bitstream font. That is my
preference here. Um on the style I
showed you the menu bar. You can do the
position. This is neat. You could drag
and write. But again, as I said, you can
do everything from the damn keyboard.
You can do everything. So you just start
typing and things happen and they're
good. So that's pretty neat.
um styling hyperland. That'll open that
config file I showed you earlier. Oh,
let me let me show you something really
cool. First, let me show you the about
menu. The about menu is where you see
all the details about your computer. And
this is a very lovely machine with uh 64
gigs of RAM and all the lovely stuff.
You're seeing where you're running. I'm
running on the dev version of Umachi
right here. I'm using foot and grub bugs
and these are how many packages I've
installed and this is how long it's been
running. All right, great. Uh lovely
logo, right? This is the Machi logo. But
look at this. You can make it your own
with an image that we turn in to ASI.
So if I go in here and I go to 37
signals and I pick this one.
I mean, what isn't that kind of super
duper cool? And look at this. If I do it
for the screen saver, too. Set it from
an image. I go to my downloads. I go to
this. And then uh I'm just going to
leave back here and marvel at the fact
that we just took our lovely Omachi
screen server and we turned it into a
wonder and celebration of 37 signals. I
think that's pretty cool. You can brand
this for your company or your project or
just your name.
Lovely stuff because this is your
computer, right? I am preparing it on
Macas for you such that when you unwrap
this thing after you install it takes
all about 1 minute on a modern fast
machine. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous.
It's all set up. Everything is
integrated and you have all my
aesthetics and you have all my favorite
background images. But then you can
tweak it exactly how you like it.
Whether that is the style or as we'll
see a little later on the plugins, you
can tweak it just how you like it and
you can make it yours. And then I mean
if you make a mistake here, of course
you can just restore to default and then
boom, you're back to Amachi, but you
should make it yours. You should put in
your logo there and make it yours. All
right, so I think that was about the the
styling. As I said, there is a um a lot
to it here. And you can also have your
agent help you with all of this stuff
and make it all color coordinated. You
can use ether and you can do all of that
stuff. But if we move on to setup, well,
if you go into monitors here, you can
set up your monitors uh in this text
file and then it's saved and you can see
this is where it lives. Or now you can
just go up here and you can just change
the text like this is a little too a
little too small or I'm 60 years old and
I need glasses now. This is big. Okay,
so you have the choice. You can do
whatever you want. I think we left it at
uh 12. This is of course also uh
integrated with foot. We were running
foot over here. So, you need to restart
foot to be able to pick up that font
change. All right. Um, just setups here.
What else do we have? We got uh key
bindings. Yes, very important. You can
make all your own key bindings. You can
override the key bindings as I mentioned
on Super K. You can see all the key
bindings. These are the ones that are
set up by default. There's a lot of
them, but you can make them your own.
You can even turn all the ones that come
in omachi off and then you can truly
just rewrite everything if you bother to
go that far.
Input. You can change all the defaults
here about the scroll acceleration of
where you want your caps lock key. Oh
yeah. So funny thing here. Um, one of
the things that uh kind of trips people
up sometimes when they start using
Amachi is I have bound the caps lock key
to be the um the compose key. So I hit
that and then I hit M and then I hit Y
and I get a thumbs up. It's just an even
faster way to do emojis. You can also do
uh compose that is caps lock and then
space and then e and it's going to enter
the email address that you set up during
the initial setup that we use for the
git config. But then you also have it
like your name on
caps lock space n just really practical.
This is stuff you enter in all the time.
You can um set that up and you can
change and you can set up more gestures
and you can set up all sorts of things.
These are the config files that
hyperland uses to do it setup. we have
just exposed them easily for you. Now,
I've already shown you DNS. You can set
up a Cloudflare or Google or your own
thing. And you can even do a QR code for
your network. So, if you hit this one,
you're going to see a QR code and you
can hop onto your network with a mobile
phone. That's pretty neat. You set your
defaults here. And this was where I
wanted to come back to this agent thing.
So we have baked in the notion of a
default agent for omachi and that
default agent uh once you've set uh it
up will be the one that is triggered for
crash captures and when an application
crashes we'll give it to that default
agent but it is also already mapped. So
if I do control super shift a I'm going
to get that default agent and right now
I just have gro set up. Grock 46 just
dropped at the time of this video and
it's a wonderful model I've been playing
with. But you can change it to anything.
I just write agents. I'm nesting in
through all the setups here. And if I
want to change it to claude, well,
voila. I'm running claude. And if I want
to change it to open code, I'm going to
run open code. Now, let me try to see if
there's one of these agents I don't
actually already have installed. I don't
think I've used uh Gemini.
If you I had used Gemini. Done it. I
have probably used all of these. Have I
not? Have I not used uh crush on this
machine? Maybe. I had also used crush.
I've used everything. Maybe OM.
Yes. OMP. I hadn't used OM on this
machine because I wanted to show you
this. For all of these agents, we use
MIS to install them. And the really neat
thing about MIS is that it's an outofban
upgrader because these agents update
about 17 times a day. So you don't want
that tied to your system packages that
you have to update your entire system 17
times a day just to get the latest
agent. But because all of these agents
run on MIS, you can at any point in time
just open a new uh terminal here and do
mup mis update. And if you do that, it's
going to update the latest versions of
all your installed
agents and everything else that you use
MIS for. And that's out of band. Now, we
also do this when you do the uh update
here as as I said. So, you're going to
get a fully updated system. But if you
just want to update your agents, this is
where you do it and it is um it's very
very helpful. What else do we have here?
We have these uh plugins. These were the
plugins that I showed you earlier. Here
we have u almost all of the plugins by
default are enabled by default, but not
all of them. One, for example, is the
active window. So, if I add that up
here, you see webcam overlay. That is
the active application right now. If I
open other application, you can see it's
up here. Some people like this. Um,
it's not my favorite. So therefore, it's
not on by default, but um, we go in here
and we can disable any of the plugins
that we have. So the first thing I'm
going to take off is this active window
again. But then if I go back in here and
disable something, we can disable um,
something else. We can remove the clock.
So look in the middle. It's Friday
15003.
Now it's not. Now it's gone.
And I can then pop it back in. And it is
just a clock. And And there we go. Um.
Oh, and you can also drag these things
by the way. You see that? Just dragged
it over on the other side. Bring it. You
can also drag these ones. Boom. And then
back in. Boom. And then that's all
possessed into your shell JSON file.
Again, you can check that in to your uh
repository and you can store it all
there. That's also super duper neat. And
then of course with these plugins you
can add plugins from around the world
somewhere else. Someone else has made a
lovely plugin. I just showed you
omachiplugins.com you can find the git
repos for this. Again bear in mind that
you should check out what you are
installing just like if you're using aur
or in theory if you're using p n n n n n
n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n npm or
ruby gems or something else know what
you're running on your machine.
Um
plugins here you can also clone a
plugin. So, this is really neat. If you
want to make your own version of the
clock, you can simply just go in and
pick one of these plugins and then hit
clone and you're going to get a copy
that supersedes that internally built
one just for you. So, you can do all
your specialization without ever getting
overwritten by the fact that Amachi
update some of this stuff. This is a
huge leap forward for Amachi Quattro
compared to how Amachi used to be. Machi
used to be a git repo checkout straight
into userland in your home directory and
if you change some of those files on
then updated well voila kaboom it wasn't
going to work well in omachi quattro
everything is a package so umachi itself
exists as a system package it's not
something you edit but you can edit all
these things on top and it kind of
layers like a stack and you end up with
your own system um really lovely way to
to work here Um,
yeah. Okay, that is uh that's plugins.
Plugins are super cool. As I said,
there's already over a hundred of them.
You will have a lot of fun. Let me let
me show a little fun I had before
starting this recording. I asked Grock
because I was going to test the default
agent to make me a plug-in and I wanted
to have this plugin that I saw online
for
different time zones that I could see
them on there. And let me actually show
you where I got this from. Do you know
what I did? I just simply went online
and then I had uh let me see where it is
here.
I searched for has someone done this
well. Someone had done a really nice job
for the Mac and I just pointed Grock at
this URL and said make me a plugin like
that. Now is this the same thing? I
don't know. It's kind of fun. I didn't
pick anything. This is straight
vibecoded plug-in goodness. And
apparently it decided that New York is
the Statue of Liberty and Los Angeles is
Hollywood. And then we got Taku. I mean,
I'm not going to complain. These are the
cities I would put on there. And then I
got I haven't even tried this. I don't
even know what time traveling. Oh, okay.
That's that's pretty cool. Thank you,
Croc. Maybe I'm going to make a version
of this that's uh a little less uh
spacious, but uh nonetheless just as
fun. So, let me just remove it just for
a second here. Um, we got that send bar
down there. I mean, how easy is that?
How easy is it to turn your operating
system into exactly what you want your
operating system to be and how it should
look and how it should work? I'm over
the moon with uh what we've set up here.
So, let's keep going. There's a lot.
This video is not five minutes. There's
a long exhaustive tour of everything
that you get in Umachi Quattro. And I am
just super duper excited to share with
you because I've been building this over
the last three plus months of thousand
plus PRs again together with Ryan Hughes
and a bunch of other contributors who
have made Omachi Quattro be so much more
than what I had in mind when I started
building omachi. And some of that is
through agent acceleration. Some of it
is just getting really into quick shell
and all the other things that we can do.
But I just I want to share all of it
with you. So you're going to see it all.
You could fast forward if if it's too
much or you can just jump straight in. I
mean, you could have installed by the
time in this video, you could probably
have installed Omachi on like 17
different machines or 22 different
machines. It literally installed in 1
minute on a fast machine off that ISO,
which by the way has also shrunk for the
new version of Amachi. It is now less
than 6 GB for all of this. All of this
stuff you get for less than 6 GB. That's
freaking incredible. All right, we also
have uh really neat things that you can
set up here. One thing I really like is
if you're setting up an Amachi machine
that you're going to connect to
remotely, especially if you're going to
connect to it remotely with an agent,
you should set up an SSH server. And the
way you do this is uh you go in there
under security and you run that and you
enter your password and it'll open up
your firewall and then it'll ask you
where the public key should come from,
the authorized key should come from and
you can grab that key straight off
GitHub. So you simply just enter your
username on GitHub. I mean, you could
enter DHH and then I'll have access to
your machine, but like don't do that, I
suppose. Or do that if you want to start
a party and I'm invited, but you enter
this and it's going to fetch the keys
from github.com/dh
keys. These are the ones I have
registered and these are my public keys
I have on there. And now I can simply
connect to this machine from anywhere
over my tail scale network using this
key. That is pretty freaking cool. This,
by the way, I mean, great artist steel.
And I totally stole this from Ubuntu
Server Edition when I set that up and I
saw like, "Oh my gosh, this is such a
good idea. We should have this
inumachi." And now we do. Really neat
and uh and good stuff here. And uh by
the way, if you have a fingerprint
scanner on your machine, this XPS
doesn't have it, but the framework does
have it and a few other machines. You'll
be offered when you initially set up
your machine to add a fingerprint uh
scanner so that you can sudo and unlock
with your finger tips. But you can also
do it in here if it's uh if it's set up.
All right. Uh these configs, we've
looked at that. Oh, the X compose. I
showed you that one before, right? I
showed you how you can do caps lock
space and then n then you get the name
and e then you get your or you can just
add something else right like we could
have uh we could have work here. This is
actually one I usually want. Um I do
37.com and then I just I save that and
then we'll go out of that. Um
and then what did it say? Oh I mean okay
we're technically supposed to do this by
hand. That seems um barbaric. I should
uh I should set this up better, but
let's run this by hand and then let's
see if it actually works.
Wait, what? Oh, yeah, there we go.
That's that that's pretty neat. That's
just all built in.
Um
direct boot. That's if you want to skip
the opportunity to select a snapshot.
Whenever we do updates, you know, these
uh updates we have up here, when you do
one of those, we take a snapshot of your
system before the update runs. And
therefore, if something is screwed up,
somehow a package slipped through our
one month delay and uh it screws with
your system, you can reboot and you'll
get this nice little menu where you can
pick a snapshot from before and you can
go back to that snapshot and now your
machine still works and you can roll
back to that snapshot and make it the
current one if that's what you uh what
you want. This really nice. We have had
in the past experiences with Arch
updates that broke something and now
with this snapshot setup where Umachi is
part of those packages. So you'll also
be rolling back Umachi. It is just a
really neat way to do it. But if you
turn this on, if if you don't ever do
that, you can hit direct boot. Then
it'll skip that screen. It's a little
faster to boot. And then you just have
to go into your bias and uh se select
the um uh the lemony setup and then
you'll get the snapshots and then reset
your computer. This one's really cool,
too. I'm not going to do that right now.
Well, I mean, this actually should have
a headline because it looks like I'm
going to do it right now. I'm going to
reset everything, but I'm not. Um, oh,
darn it. This actually is only on new
machines installed with Amachi Quattro
ESO from scratch because when you do
that, we do take a factory snapshot and
then at any time you can roll back to
that factory snapshot and it's like you
wiped your computer and it's super fast.
And now you can hand your computer to
someone else. You can sell it to someone
else and they can set it up uh just like
it was your own. You don't have to fear
that any of your data is getting
compromised because everything was
encrypted and we're throwing away the
keys and we're giving something a new
setup. But to be able to have this, you
have to do a new install. That is the
one caveat. Otherwise, everything is
accessible when you just do an upgrade
from an earlier version of Amachi. But
I'm I got to show you that that's set
up. All right. Install. Install.
Install. Install. The first thing you
can do here, of course, when you install
is you have access to all the um Arch
packages and there's about uh 15,000 of
those. So, if you want to install, I
don't know, uh Chromium again or you had
uninstalled that or you had removed it,
you can install that. You just sort of
type here, right? Or or charm. Let's see
want to do that. If you want to install
multiple, you hit tab, that marks it.
And then we can do chatty and marks it
two. And then if you hit return, we're
going to install it. I I'm not going to
install these, but this is how you get
access to all the built-in Arch packages
that have been vetted by the Arch team.
But if we go down here, we also have the
AUR. And the AUI has had a little bit of
a rough year. Let's put it like that.
They've had some outages and they've
also had some security issues. I am sure
they will get a handle of it because it
is a treasure. If we go in there, you'll
see there's 117,000
packages right here. So this is where
you find things like brave for example
and these are official packages
controlled by the Brave team. These are
safe to install but anything else that
you do install from there you should
maybe have a look at. So let's just take
some random package here and then you
can hit uh alt b and then you literally
get to see the build package like what
is it doing when it installed. Now is
everyone doing all that that all the
time? not if they're picking something
from a trusted um distributor here, but
um if it's not, it's not a bad idea to
have a look at it. But do know that you
don't need to use the AUR at all to use
Amachi. We have our own package
repository that we actually store all
our packages from. This was a gift from
when the AUI originally had problems and
we couldn't install Amachi because we
depended on that at runtime. Now we
don't depend on that at all. We still uh
take built package cookbooks from AUR
but then we run it ourselves. We verify
it ourselves and we host it ourselves.
Well, we don't. We host it on
Cloudflare. Thank you, Cloudflare. This
is why Omachi, by the way, is so
incredibly fast to download all over the
world. We don't need to use distributed
mirrors and all that other stuff because
we use a modern CDN, the best in the
business. Cloudflare is incredible and
we're sending out just pabytes and
pabytes of data with the ISOs and all
the updates that you pull down from the
Umachi um servers and the mirror. We're
mirroring all of the Arch official
packages. All those 15,000 packages,
they're pull being pulled straight from
the Umachi mirror, which allows us to
have a stable mirror that runs one month
behind the official mirror. And
therefore, you're not at risk that uh
any rogue package that might have a bug
takes down your system right away if you
just run on uh unstable. Um, speaking of
stable, let me just show you that just
for a second. We we jump around a little
bit here. This is this is a journey,
right? you're on this journey with me
and we're not sticking to the script
because there is no script. Let me show
you. If you go in under update, you can
of course update Amachi. That's the same
as picking that little um icon up in the
menu bar, but you can also go to
channel. And right now I'm on the dev
channel. The dev channel is for
developers, people who are actively
working on Amachi and who knows how to
fix things if they break. Don't go to
the dev channel just because you want to
try new things. That's you might have a
bad time. That's going to be a git repo
checkout and so forth. So that's for the
developers. Of course, we love
developers. There's a trillion
developers who do use Amachi. If you're
one of those and you want to contribute
to Amachi itself, hop on the dev
channel. Just know that like you should
know what you're doing. But everyone's
going to start out on the stable
channel. That's the channel that's one
month behind. And then we're going to
have the RC channel. That's the release
candidate channel. So that's the one we
ask the testers to use when we have a
new version coming up. And if you hop on
that, then you get the release candidate
as soon as it's it's out. And then the
edge channel you will float not one
month behind on all packages but on the
very latest packages. So if you have
access need access to something that has
just come out or or whatever and you
can't wait that one month or whenever we
update by the way the one month is not
written in stone. If there's a really
important update or there's a security
issue or whatever we just bump it's just
like by default if we don't do anything
the dead man switch is going to update
this thing once a month. All right. Um
where was I? Install AUR. Yes. Um, oh,
web apps. Remember when I showed you
this web app here, um, for for X? I can
do another one on Super Shift Y. That's
going to open up, uh,
YouTube. Two of my favorite topics, fast
cars and uh, and Rust and uh, and AI.
All right. If you want to make your own,
you want to have one of these things
here, you can go in under install and
then you can go to web app and then you
can give the name of your new web app.
Like I have a uh newspaper here in
Denmark that I want to have on as a web
app. I'm just going to type in the URL
for that. And then it's going to pull
down the
image for it that matches off the
internet. And if I go to here and I go
into apps and I start typing pull tick.
I mean, would you look at that? Your own
newspaper just set up beautiful
frameless design.
Okay, that's pretty cool. You can just
add any of that. And by the way, if
you've added that and you don't actually
want it, do you know what we can do? You
know what we can do? We can go down to
it. Well, I'm just showing you
everything that's installed here. And
then you hover on that and you hit
delete and you can uninstall it right
there. And then boom, there's no more
politicking. It's gone. Oh, by the way,
do you know what? That also works with
other kinds of apps. Let's see. Uh, what
do I want to remove here? Uh, I mean, I
could just install it again. It doesn't
It doesn't matter what I want to Let's
remove Moonlight. That's a real package
that's installed. If I hit uninstall on
that, it's actually going to uninstall
Moonlight straight from that setup. I
mean, how freaking cool is that? I've
always wanted to have that. Why do you
have to go to a separate place? It's
when I look at my list of applications
that I know I want to uninstall
something. Okay.
Um
you do the same thing with the TUI. It
also just uh opens this thing up and
then it can become like u I have one um
superc control T that's the B top two. I
also have another one on super shiftd
that's docker or lazy docker. It's just
installed in that way. You can wrap your
own two in that style and install them
that way. Great. We talked about
installing themes. You can install new
uh background. This is actually kind of
neat. So, that'll open you straight up
into that themes background. Let's open
another one here. And if I hop in under
downloads and I take this audi print
here and I drag it in. Let's hop over.
And I didn't go double click. Boop.
There it is. And now we got outro a
audio quattro in our group. It it almost
matches. I mean actually that looks
good. Let's just keep it. Let's keep the
quattro. So this is also matched to per
theme. So if you go to another theme,
you can add uh themes that just match
for that. Pretty freaking spanking neat.
What else do we have on styles? Oh yeah,
we had all those fonts. You can install
the extra font that I baked in. You can
install whatever font you want. As soon
as you install a font, it it'll show up
as you can and select it, right? Uh
these services, this is where you can
add Dropbox and this is where you have
tail scale. I also have some of these
other things I use on and NordVPN and
Bit Warden and uh if you want to use
your Google account with your Chromium
uh you can install this little um
extension set up and then you can use
your Google account in your Chromium
browser. You don't have to switch to
Chrome to be able to do that. But I'm a
developer. So let's talk about
development. Let's talk about I want to
build Ruby on Rails. So what does it
take to get Ruby on Rails as an
environment set up on this machine? I'll
show you. I hit return. It's going to
use MI to pull down a pre-built of Ruby
4. And then once it's installed that,
it's also going to install Rails for
you. And then as soon as it's done with
that, we are simply ready to cook and
rock and roll. Uh you can now run Rails
new my project. Well, don't mind if I
do. Let's hop in here and then let's
actually use try. That's Topy's neat uh
application that's shipped by default
also inside of Omachi where we can do my
new Rails app here. It'll just create a
new directory for you so that you can go
for it and we'll do Rails new blog and
voila, we are simply developing Ruby and
Rails um right now. And um did you see
that? You can also, by the way, if
you're on a smaller screen, you can hold
down super shift and then do backspace
and then the uh spacing around it goes
away. And if you hold super control
backspace down and you have only a
single window open, it'll toggle between
this mode where it just sees it centered
and and not we just have all sorts of
little tricks here. All sorts of little
tricks in the book. But um actually,
I'll leave it like this. It looks good
for for a video. So now we are in our
Rails app here. And uh what should we do
with the Rails app? We just generate a
scaffold for post a title string. I mean
I'm not going to uh
I'm not going to create an entirely new
Oh
yeah, maybe you should go into uh the
directory, buddy. Maybe you should set
it up right. And then we can do db
migrate. And then I can run the server
for this. And then oh I wanted to show
you this. If you do control shift O when
you're in foot, it'll pop up these
little uh you see the A and the S. That
is the different uh URLs that it can see
in its scroll log right now. And if I
hit A, it'll hop straight to that in the
browser. There's no copy paste. It's
just control shift O. Voila. And if I go
to uh go to posts here. Is that what it
is? I have a Rails application. I mean,
I'm not even doing a Rails demo here.
I'm just showing up Amachi. And how
quickly you can develop freaking
anything. So, let's close that. And then
let's close that. And then let's close
that. And then hop back into under
development under install. And like you
have everything here. You can I mean
I've already installed some of these so
it won't show the things. I already
installed node but you can install bun
if you want bun. You can install Dino.
You can install PHP and Laravel. You can
install freaking everything. I mean, we
just have all of it and it's all set up
and it's all ready to go and ready to
rock. And if you want to install like a
Docker DB, for example, if you want one
of the databases that you can develop
against that, you you you just you just
do that. Um, what else can we install?
Oh, you can install an editor. Yes, I've
been using Neoim here. You should give
Neo Vim a try. It it's really fun, they
said. And then you're going to curse at
me and the world for three days as you
try to learn it. But let's just say you
want VS Code, right? Um because that's
what a lot of people use. I just saw
that Vaxree actually uses VO code, which
surprised me a little bit, but there's a
reason it is the most popular editor in
the world. And this is what it takes to
to set it up and to download it and
it'll start by itself. And did you
notice something? No, you didn't. You
didn't notice it. But I'm going to show
you
that look that looks pretty good here.
That looks that looks uh pretty good.
But do you know what looks even better?
If I go here and I take another theme
and I switch it over and uh voila, VS
Code is also theme coordinated. Even
though it's not even installed by
default, it is theme coordinated too.
How um how cool is this? I'm very
excited about these things. And you can
install all these other things, too. You
install all sorts of editors. You can
install whatever you want. Now, again,
these are just things I'm giving you an
easy access to. Boom. Here you got it.
15,000 packages and then uh you want to
do AUR 117,000 packages. Every piece of
software you could ever desire is
available on Omachi and ready for you to
install. There's just some of it I've
just made even easier to install and
I'll open it for you and I'll roll out
the red carpet and and off we go. Like
for example, you want to run Ghosty. I
think you should run Ghosty. Ghosti is a
really good terminal. We don't run it by
default. run foot by default because uh
Umachi needs to work on breadboard
laptops from like 2011 and not all of
them have the hardware to run something
like uh Ghosty. But if you want to run
Ghosty, we're going to run Ghosty. Let's
run Ghosty.
And the neat thing about these options,
if I put them in the menu, I've made
sure that they are super duper nice. And
then they're already set up. And then
when I start a new terminal here, what
do you what do you see? You don't see
anything. You're like, "Oh, is this
foot? Is this foot? And then um I do
what is the hotkey? Control shift t. And
suddenly there's tabs because this is
not foot. This is actually ghosty
because if we go here under defaults and
we look under terminal, we're now
running ghosty. Isn't that cool? I've
updated all of these things. And then
also also
let's do the let's do the theme thing
one more time.
Boom.
Instant update. I'm running ghosty. It's
all color coordinated, too. And
really lovely theme here. One of the new
ones, Last Horizon. Um,
let's go back to Tokyo Night for a
second here. So, now we're running now
we're running Ghosty. You could run any
of the others. I know people have very
strong feelings about their terminals.
We also have Elacy. We also have Kitty.
And maybe we're even going to have
Westerm at some point. I mean, you
again, you can install whatever you
want, but if it's here, I've color
coordinated. I've made sure everything
is beautiful together. Install any of
the browsers. I just use Chromium
because that's Chrome without the
Chrome. Um, but install whatever you
want. Brave Origins, great browser. If
you're loyal still to Firefox, install
that. It's all set up and working um,
ever so nicely. Oh, AI. Now, AI,
the agents themselves, they're all
installed through just the terminal,
right? And let me just show you
something. So, of course, we're gonna
have Claude, right? All right. I trust
things. This is Claude. But I also have
a a cool hotkey here. Uh CX for Claude
is the
bypass permissions mode.
YOLO mode. Run with everything. Now,
actually, they're telling me that auto
mode is almost as good in terms of not
bugging you all the time, but safer. So,
maybe we'll switch to that in the
future. But that's a way to start that.
I have the same thing CY for Codeex. And
then we're gonna run codecs in yolo
mode. Um,
so you get that from MIS. They're not
installed as default, but the first time
you run claude in a new omachi setup,
it's just going to install it the latest
version of MIS. So that's really cool.
But there's some of this other AI stuff
that um requires a package to install
and set up and you can run LM Studio,
you can run Lama. And actually, one of
the things I wanted to show you here was
I have already installed that's actually
already in there too. chat GPT. It just
came out for the Codex app. It just came
out for Linux. We have repackaged it.
It's hosted on the Umachi package
repository. And uh I was see do I have
an anything embarrassing in here. How
does Linux work? How do how do I quit
Neovim? That would be funny, wouldn't
it? Um no, I don't. But this is Codeex
and and you can run that and um it would
be under that install AI menu if you had
not already installed Codeex and and
you'd been installing that from there.
So that is the AI stuff. What else do we
have? Oh, gaming. Oh, I love games. We
have Steam. We have Retro. We have
Minecraft. We have GeForce Now. We have
Xbox Cloud Thing. We have Battleet so
you can play Starcraft. Um, we have we
have all of it and it's all super duper
awesome. Gaming on Linux has gotten
unreasonably good. And why? In huge
thanks and celebration because of Valve.
So Valve, which by the way runs their
Steam Deck on Arch, has been doing just
an absolutely incredible job building up
Proton, this compatibility layer with
the Windows. So you have tens of
thousands of games that now work on
Linux. I play uh Tetris Effects. That's
one of my favorite games on Steam. It's
really good. It takes a little while to
install because it's got to download a
bunch of things. You got to set things
up. So let me not show you in this
video. I'll do a separate video just on
Omachi gaming because it used to be a
little rough, but now it's really good
and especially Steam and especially
Retro Arc and and Minecraft. My kids
have been playing Minecraft on Amachi
tons of times. It's really good. And
then you can play any other game like
you want to play Fortnite. Um well, I
want to play Fortnite. I play a lot of
Fortnite. And by the way, this is my
personal plea, Tim Sweeney. We're making
Fortnite happen on Linux, right? That's
a deal, right? It's going to happen
natively. But until it does, you can
actually play it through these cloud
streaming services. And some of them are
really good if you happen to live quite
close to their servers. If you're
GeForce Now, Ryan Hughes, who's my uh
co-conspirator here on Umachi, he lives
in Miami, like six milliseconds from a
GeForce Now cluster. You can't tell the
difference. You cannot tell the
difference. So, if you are so blessed,
it's amazing. You should uh try that and
you can use it. And by the way, that
moonlight thing we uninstalled earlier,
that's basically GeForce Now, but for
local. You can set up a gaming PC
downstairs or some other place. And then
on your Machi machine, you're streaming
from that gaming PC to your Machi
machine. That's how I play Fortnite at
home. I have a Windows machine set up
for my racing sim and it also runs
Umachi and I stream it right to my or it
doesn't run, it runs Windows. It runs
Fortnite on there that I stream over my
with my G4 whatever 50 90 or whatever
else I have in that box and then it can
run all its fans down there downstairs
and I run it up here and because I'm
hardwired it's just amazing. Can't tell
the difference. I challenge anyone if
you run something like that and you can
get a good ping. It's it's it's crazy.
So gaming really important. Um wants to
be amazing at this stuff. You don't need
a dedicated dro for gaming. You just
don't. Um can do it. I've we have been
benchmarking this and a bunch of folks
on uh on YouTube have been doing these
things where we compare um Umachi to
other gaming dros and there's just no
difference in almost all the cases.
There are no diff differences. And of
course there isn't because we're all
just built on top of the Linux kernel
and as long as you install the right
drivers and Nvidia and set things up in
just the right way, it's gonna be great.
It's gonna work awesome. So gaming on
Omachi is incredible. Windows, you can
run Windows. It installs Windows in a VM
and it runs super fast. If you're going
to run like Excel, for example, you or
you need something for work, you should
run it in Windows. What it does not do,
it's not Windows for gaming. There's no
GPU pass through, but it runs really
well. You do need a license key if
you're going to use it professionally,
but you probably have one if you already
have a PC. Most PCs come with a license
key, so just use that. It's really good.
It just runs in a VM. You can't tell the
difference. You can run it at full
screen and it's like you're running
Windows inside your Amachi. It's uh it's
crazy good for compatibility.
All right, we're getting close to the
end here. I mean, I'm not going to keep
keep you for six hours. This is not a
Lex Freriedman interview. Calm down.
Take it easy. All right, remove. You can
remove any of the packages. anything
that is installed in Omachi. Whoa, whoa,
I accidentally hit return. Let's just uh
do super W there and then go back into
this menu before I uninstall something
important. So, you can see all of it and
again you can do the tab here if you
want to install multiple thing. It is um
it's quite neat. What else can you
remove? Well, you can remove web apps. I
mean, let's say I didn't want that. Uh
oh, I already removed the puling one.
You don't actually really need this. Do
we need this? I don't know. Maybe it's
more discoverable, but you you could uh
just do it from the launcher itself,
right? Um
remove development if you've installed
uh Ruby and Rails and don't want to use
it. Like what? Like that's ever going to
happen. Never going to happen. But if it
did, you just hit it there and it all
right. I'm doing it just because I'm wh
that was it. Boom. Gone. Now it's gone.
And if I type Rails again, I'm going to
go back to the installer and uh and
reinstall it. That That was it. That was
all it took. And did you see how fast
that was? How I just jumped down into
the menu here as I was typing. Now it's
a remove.
Yeah,
that's how it is. Um you can remove
themes if you've installed um external
themes here. Uh this one I was playing
with. I don't actually need that one. I
I've been working on my own little
theme. I haven't added it into Umachi
just yet. I just Let me Let me just show
you because I saw it here. It was called
Giants. I mean, Turing and Vonoyman
in a beautiful lovely theme here. I
mean, what's not to love? But I don't
love all the colors, so I haven't put it
in too much itself. That's probably
going to be part of 41. It's just a
little sneak preview.
Um,
let's just stay here. We don't have to
back to anything. We can do whatever we
want. We can remove dictation. If you
installed that box type dictation,
that's an offer, by the way. When you
set up Amacha, you can uh just remove
it. We can remove any of the services,
Dropbox or Tailscale if we don't want
those anymore. Or if you're one of these
people, bloat. OH MY GOD. OH MY IS SO
BLOATED. I would use it, but it's
bloated.
It's six gigabytes. All right. Most of
the things that are in there that you
think is bloat is like 50 kilobytes or
not even 50 kilobytes, bytes, because
they're just web app wrappers. There's
nothing. But if you're one of these
people, this is a big tent. There's room
for you. If you hit remove pre-installs,
it'll remove all those awesome
applications I curated for you and leave
you with a very barren landscape where
you can build everything back up, but
where you keep the themes and all the
integrations on. So, if you're one of
these people, this is for you. I mean,
yeah. All right. And then, uh, you can
also remove any of the security things
that you set up. If we don't want that
SSH server, actually, I don't want this
SSH server on this machine because you
know what? I don't need it on this
machine. So, I'm just going to remove
it. We're going to we're going to we're
going to make it nice for you. We we
close thing. We clean up after ourselves
here. We close the firewall. We remove
the authorized keys. And we stop the
server. Okay. Um what else can we
remove? Oh, that was it. That was
removals. All right. Updates. Updates.
So, there's a mod itself. We already
looked at that. There's a channel. We
already looked at that. There's the
configs. If you screw something up if in
your hyperlink config or your T-Mox
config or whatever, we shoulder in
there. You can reset it. All right. then
you're just going to get what's in the
box. Now, you're going to lose all your
changes. So, don't do that unless you
you screwed it up. You can update your
extra themes. They come through uh the
GitHub, so they update there. You can
restart if the shell is somehow broken
or hyperset has a problem. You can
restart that. They'll just restart the
shell. Um you can restart the hardware.
Occasionally, Linux will have something.
I haven't had to use this in a long
time, but like you'll you can restart
the audio driver or the Wi-Fi driver,
the Bluetooth driver, or even the
trackpad. If you have a machine that has
problems that you can update the
password for your drive encryption or
for the user, or you can set your your
time zone here. Um, whatever you want,
you can type it down. Well, I am in
Copenhagen right now, so let's just set
it to Copenhagen. But if you were
somewhere else, that's where you would
set that. And, uh, update time. Um, all
right. And then we have the about menu
that we set up. So that is the that's
the whole that's the whole main oh
system. All right. So what do we have on
the system? We have that awesome screen
saver that I showed you. Looks really
cool. You can lock your screen. You can
suspend it. You can hibernate it. You
can log out, reboot and uh and shut
down. You can also get to this menu by
the way just on super escape little
hotkey. So when you need to do that and
or and you can do lock if you just want
to lock the screen on uh super control L
again super K. You don't have to
remember all these key bindings. you can
just find them that the log is right
here and then uh then you're good to go.
Um is that everything? No, no, it's not
everything. I've not shown you some of
the awesome built-in apps that we have.
Um one of the built-in apps that we have
is called Omarite. And this is something
I've replaced to Tuparo Topo. I don't
know how to pronounce that, but that was
a thing we had before. We share where
you had to buy it or otherwise it would.
It's really nice. I mean, if you need
the features in it, you should you
should use it and you should pay for it.
I paid for it. Um, but I didn't need
that for much. I just wanted a place to
write my essays. And that's why I came
up with Amarite. And is simply the most
basic possible writing app that uh uses
markdown. Like for example, we could uh
highlight this and do Ctrl +B. Oh, see
this is why this theme has not been
released because that color coordination
here doesn't look quite right. Let's
actually check some change something
because I want to show you something. I
want to show you something. I want to
show you so many things. This is why we
keep this going here. Colorcoordinated
on my right out of the box just fully
color coordinated. Awesome. Um, one
other thing that's quite awesome is if
we do this and we do
a URL. Boom. This is what I always want
in my markdown endos. I want to be able
to paste a URL on top of a word and then
boom, it's just set in. And then you got
your 14 little words here. Save and open
and and and that's it. That that's all
it has. There's nothing else to it. It
is a very small app. You can fork it.
You can work on it if you if you want.
Um in fact, let me show you that you can
work on it if you want here because we
could just jump to Amicon and then we
could do amma right here.
And then um let let me let me get some
poll requests. All right, we just you
you build it all. By the way, this one I
build in C++. I've been flexing my new
C++ models. Um All right. I haven't I
don't know any C++, but Claude does. And
Claude is really good. Yeah, this is
vibe coded. Are you freaking out right
now? Oh my god. It's vibe coded. Yeah,
it's good. VIP coding is actually really
good now if you know how to steer it. if
you can sort of review it. If the
criticality is low enough, it's okay to
vibe code. Make some make some cool
stuff. Uh, speaking of cool stuff here,
let me show you another one I made. This
is something I've wanted on um
on a lot of things. Oh, this is the the
intro here for this thing. Um,
this is the intro for the video. We
could uh we could trim it down
and then do this. This is the trim now
here. And then I click save here. And
then we have trimmed down a video. That
that's all I have it for. I use it to
trim down things and post them on uh on
on
X mostly. And if you hit question mark,
you can see all the hotkeys that are to
it. This is another one. C++ built with
QD. It takes up like I don't know two
megabytes or something like that. It's
tiny. And then the last one we have I've
tied to super shift uh Q. Nope. Super
control Q. Sorry. And it's a calculator.
A nice looking calculator that is
fully themable. Right. Isn't that
gorgeous? All right. Is that Is that it?
Is that all I've shown you? Oh, let me
show you clean. So, out of the box, you
can of course run Spotify. Spotify is
wonderful. I use Spotify. Spotify is
great. Spotify also takes up 400
megabytes of RAM, I think, and 1.2 GB on
the drive. So, we install it lazy
loadedly. The first time you uh run uh
super shift M for music, we'll install
Spotify if you ask for it. Or you can do
super shift alt m and you're going to
get clamp.
And clamp is freaking cool. It's got all
of these um
radio stations built in. You can even
hook it up to your to your Spotify
account and it uses like I don't know 40
megabytes. So if you're on a memory
constrained system or you just don't
want to spend 400 megabytes on Spotify,
that's a cool one to run instead. Um
what else do we have? We got Soon, we
got YouTube, we got um this one is for
signing PDFs. I'm going to replace this
one with a sign soon. So don't get too
attached to it or or do and then you can
use it signal what I use uh on my track
awesome app that Toby has built for
analyzing um racrack videos and data.
That one is not part of but if you do do
racing you should check out Alatra. It's
awesome. One of Toby's projects. We got
OBS. Uh that's what I use to record the
intro to this video on. Um we got
Neovim, of course. We got a media
player. We even got Libra Office. You
can open Word documents, PowerPoints,
all of it. Caden Live is what I'm going
to edit these videos in afterwards. Um,
the Google apps. Yeah, again, not
everyone likes it. If you don't like it,
okay, just hit uh hit that little delete
and then it's gone or not. I use them. I
actually like the Google services.
They're great. Uh, Ghosty was the one we
had just installed. And um, and that's
it.
Oh man, I got to breathe here. This was
a really long and in-depth tour of
Umachi, but I am just really stoked. I
am so proud of this thing that we've
built. It is simply incredible. And I
couldn't have built it without all our
new agent friends. Uh whether they're
from Anthropic or Open AAI or
um or Grock or SpaceX AI or any of the
open source models, they're they're
great, too. There are just so many
wonderful things you can do with these
AI um tools and Umachi is leaning all in
on it. I think you should install an
agent. When you set up Umachi,
we have a skill. So when you open up
Umachi and um you ask your agent to do
stuff, it's going to know stuff. And the
reason it's going to know stuff is that
we have um we have skills. We have the
diagnosis skill for the crash. We have
uh things here for um itself, how it can
capture things, how the skills should be
used. We are really leaning into the
fact that Umachi is an agentic operating
system. Yeah. Okay. I know that sounds
like and everyone is shoving AI
into everything and we don't want it in
all the places we don't want it. But if
you're using the agent to accelerate
stuff on your behalf, I love that and I
think that's great. Now again, you don't
have to be as excited about AI and
agents as I am. You don't even have to
use it at all. That invitation that pops
up for installing a default agent, you
can simply just dismiss it. You can
dismiss any um notification, by the way.
This is a notification. And if you right
click on it, it just goes away. So just
rightclick on that default agent
notification if you don't want to set it
up, if you don't want your crash bugs to
be analyzed and all that stuff. And then
there's no there's no AI. I mean there's
AI in development but you can use omachi
without any AI at all. So so don't freak
out. All right just uh get comfortable.
Don't get comfortable with it. Use um
like you want to use it. This is your
operating system. Like I am giving you
the omicasa version. A great set of
details and or details. Yeah, I do give
great details but I also do give you
some great defaults and they're
wonderful to use and they're also
wonderful to change and you can change
them however much you like. And omachi
Quattro has never made that easier. Has
never made it easier just to ask your
agent to come up with a plugin. Has
never made it easier to diagnose uh
error messages or change config files or
whatever. This is your operating system
and you can change it to your heart's
content. I hope that you do. I hope that
you join us. I hope you come along for
the ride. And if you're watching this
still as a Mac OS user or as a Windows
user, you should just install it. By the
way, Windows users, we now have dual
boot. Just create some free space on
that disc you want to install it on and
is going to offer you dual boot when you
install and it's it takes a minute. A
minute on a fast machine and on a slow
one maybe two or three. Okay, burn that
ISO. Get on the omachi train. Get
involved with Quattro. Get involved with
the community. Build some stuff.
Experiment.
Embrace Linux. This is the year of Linux
on the desktop.