# Try Omarchy

> Run Omarchy on MacOS without any setup.

- **Website:** https://github.com/themartiano/try-omarchy
- **Pricing:** unknown
- **Categories:** Video & Audio, Developer Tools
- **Tags:** video-audio, developer-tools, design
- **Platforms:** macOS, Linux, CLI
- **Last verified:** 2026-09-10
- **Canonical page:** https://linkrena.com/tools/try-omarchy

## About

Run the upstream Omarchy desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Try Omarchy packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple Hypervisor Framework, and a small Swift/AppKit launcher into one macOS app. The image is built from pinned Arch Linux ARM packages and a pinned revision of the upstream Omarchy source. Temporary fixes carried ahead of the next upstream release are enumerated with strict hashes in the guest build spec and artifact provenance.

Current limitation: Video decoding is CPU-only, so playback can be slow, especially at high resolutions. An improved video path is in development.

This fork moves the runtime to QEMU 11.1.1 to pick up Apple's in-hypervisor GIC, and fixes two audio problems found along the way.

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