--- title: Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3 | daily.dev description: A year-plus daily driver review of Omarchy, an Arch Linux based distro built by DHH, focusing on the newly released Quattro (4.0) version. The author... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bxi3sagrx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3 | daily.dev og:description: A year-plus daily driver review of Omarchy, an Arch Linux based distro built by DHH, focusing on the newly released Quattro (4.0) version. The author... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bxi3sagrx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bXi3sAGRX.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3 **[Data Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/sspdata)** · [@sspaeti](https://daily.dev/sspaeti) · 24 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A year-plus daily driver review of Omarchy, an Arch Linux based distro built by DHH, focusing on the newly released Quattro (4.0) version. The author highlights the unified Quickshell-based interface (replacing Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg, polkit-gnome with a single coherent shell), a new plugin marketplace with 3000 plugins in three weeks, a faster fuzzy-search launcher, deep OS customization, agent/AI integration, a bespoke Omarchy Linux kernel, and a sub-minute (even 9-second) installer. The author argues Omarchy is not trying to be a better macOS or Windows but a new kind of malleable, agentic OS, contrasting it favorably with recent macOS/Windows UI and privacy missteps. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@aladdinaliyev** · 4 upvotes >  > > Perfect coincidence **@ahmetozel** · 3 upvotes > Replacing Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg and polkit-gnome with one Quickshell-based shell is the change that actually matters here, and it is worth naming why: the cost of a tiling setup was never the tiling, it was that eight independently-versioned components each had their own config language and their own way of breaking after an update. Consolidating that is a bigger usability win than any individual feature. > > > 3000 plugins in three weeks is impressive and also the number I would watch most carefully. A marketplace that grows that fast on a malleable OS is an... **@ristotoldsep** · 0 upvotes > A 9-second installer makes me suspicious and impressed at the same time. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distribution Overhauls Gaming Support, Adds Unified CLI](https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-3-7-linux-distribution-overhauls-gaming-support-adds-unified-cli-af96snnk0) · Phoronix · 44 upvotes · 5 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#window-manager](https://daily.dev/tags/window-manager), [#dotfiles](https://daily.dev/tags/dotfiles) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/bxi3sagrx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/bxi3sagrx","headline":"Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3","text":"Shared: Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bxi3sagrx","datePublished":"2026-09-19T15:43:18.622Z","dateModified":"2026-09-19T15:43:18.625Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sspaeti","url":"https://daily.dev/sspaeti","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--EUyvB87J--/f_auto/v1728507737/avatars/avatar_JQ1gsIOil3NLAyf5Nn3vM","description":"Technical Author, Data Engineer, and Educator on ssp.sh, dedp.online.","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":6100}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":24},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/4yyJUyvog"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Perfect coincidence","datePublished":"2026-09-20T21:35:47.229Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bXi3sAGRX#c-FbrR2U76F","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Aladdin Aliyev","url":"https://daily.dev/aladdinaliyev","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ppxAW7sM--/f_auto/v1779774168/avatars/avatar_UwUhjMcyo7kMhZ4a1mZkS?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Replacing Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg and polkit-gnome with one Quickshell-based shell is the change that actually matters here, and it is worth naming why: the cost of a tiling setup was never the tiling, it was that eight independently-versioned components each had their own config language and their own way of breaking after an update. 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