Hey, this is Greg, welcome to the first issue of Omarchy Weekly! The goal of this newsletter is to keep you in the loop with all the interesting things happening in the Omarchy world. The structure is experimental and if you have any feedback, just let me know.

Let's start with Omarchy Core related news.

Omarchy 4.0.2 was released
This is a security release, you should definitely install the updates. And while we are on the topic of security, Omarchy has a dedicated security page now, with guidance about reporting issues.

Quattro crosses 200 000 ISO downloads
The Quattro ISO reached more than 200k downloads from 215 countries since its release 3 weeks ago. It seems like this is indeed going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!

Omacom Foundation secures $1.95M in tokens
Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Fireworks pledges $1.95M worth of tokens to the Foundation. These tokens will be used to accellerate the development of Omarchy.

The Foundation's first hire: Krzysztof Wilczyński
Krzysztof is a longtime Linux kernel developer and became the first hire of the Omacom Foundation. He will join to lead the work on the Omarchy Kernel.

Omacom Foundation hits $13M in funding
With the first four Distinguished Patrons have pledging $100,000 each, Omarchy reached $13M in total funding.
Also, 1Password and 37signals became the first corporate patrons, pledging $100k/year for three years each. And patronage is now open to everyone, there are public tiers at $16, $256, $2048 / $8192 if you want to financially contribute to the project.

Omarchy News
If you want to follow the official news feed, you can do that on https://omarchy.org/news and subscribe to the RSS feed.

Now let's see what's new regarding Omarchy plugins. If you want to browse the 2.2k+ plugins, the registry is on this link: https://plugins.omarchy.org/

First plugin competition winners
The first Omarchy plugin competition is over and Radio Atlas won $2500 for being first, Omagotchi $1000 for the second place, and OmarchyPods $500 for the third place.

Omaplug
This is a plugin to your Omarchy bar to enable, disable, update, install, and remove plugins.

Omagen
This is an Image-to-theme plugin Pick a wallpaper, preview, then apply. Creating you own theme has never been easier.

Worldclock
A keyboard-friendly, DST-correct world clock for the Omarchy bar.

Omarchy Theme Manager
Manage Omarchy themes and browse Aether-backed Wallhaven wallpapers from the native picker.

Omarchy plugin development
There is an official guide about creating and publishing a plugin. If you have an idea, read this guide and get going.

Omarchy already has plenty of community themes, if you want to create your own, you should check out the manual for that.

Introducing Omarchy AIR
The foundation started an Artists in Residence program and HANCORE, OldJobobo and Taha are the first three to get $2500 per month for 6 months as support to develop themes and plugins for Omarchy.

Aether / Omarchist
This a plugion, not a theme, from the aforementioned Taha. Omarchist brings Omarchy theme creation and system configuration into the GUI realm. If you develop themes, this will make it much easier.

Q2DM1 theme
A gritty, industrial green Omarchy theme inspired by the legendary Quake II multiplayer deathmatch map q2dm1: The Edge. 

Now let's look into documentation and tutorials!

The Omarchy Manual
This is the official manual, highly recommended to at least skim over once.

Omarchy: the complete guide
A community install guide with dual-booting Windows 11 and guide about how to use shortcuts, themes etc.

How My Omarchy Plugin Got DHH’s Attention
The maker of Radio Atlas talks about building the plugin and contest.

What Happened to Omarchy in Two Weeks?
A lot. Watch this video for a summary of the two weeks where decades happened.

Omarchy Quattro and AI
A review of Quattro, focused on agents and the Quickshell desktop.

TechAeris Quattro review
Another review of Quattro and what the future might hold.

Omarchy 4 Quattro: What’s New
This is a changelog-style writeup of the 4.0 features, more useful if you are not new to Omarchy, it explains the changes from version 3 to Quattro.

Omarchy events are popping up all over the world!

Meetups hub
The official meetup guide and a global calendar of Omarchy events on Luma.

Omarchy Seoul Meetup 001
Sat 12 Sep 2026, 14:00–17:00, Cheongdam. Show & tell + install fest.

Omarchy Install Party (Brandenburg)
Sat 19 Sep 2026, Villa Digtalkultur, Forst (Lausitz). Install day near Berlin.

Omarchy Biel meetup
Switzerland intro session: agentic Linux, first install, daily-driver stories.

GOSIM Shenzhen 2026
16–17 Oct 2026; DHH announced as a keynote speaker.

Omarchy Leiden, NL Meetup
Omarchy-curious in the Netherlands? This is your chance to try it on real hardware. Even an old laptop you might have laying around.

Now let's see some miscellaneous Omarchy related stuff in the wild

Introducing Omarchy Rangers
Official helpers for new users on Discord; apply at rangers@omarchy.org.

Awesome Omarchy
Curated list of plugins, themes, forks, and writeups.

Omarchy Radio
The official radio station with community AI tracks about the distro.

Try Omarchy Mac
A macOS/QEMU app to try Omarchy without wiping a disk.

Try Omarchy Windows
The full Omarchy Linux desktop, running in a window on your Windows PC.

Omarchy distro gains serious backing
The Register's coverage of Quattro plus the foundation money.

Omarchy Music Contest
The first edition of the contest is already in the books, keep an eye out for the next one if you want to participate.

That's it for the first week! It's been a lot and I probably missed a few things, but I will try to share all the important bits in the future!

Until next week!