--- title: DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup | daily.dev description: DHH announces Omarchy Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite of the Arch-based Linux distribution built around AI agents, moving to QuickShell, cutting 17... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup | daily.dev og:description: DHH announces Omarchy Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite of the Arch-based Linux distribution built around AI agents, moving to QuickShell, cutting 17... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cWRsqQf0T.png og:image:alt: DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup 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. # DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup **[ThePrimeTime](https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen)** · 42 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DHH announces Omarchy Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite of the Arch-based Linux distribution built around AI agents, moving to QuickShell, cutting 17 dependencies, shrinking the ISO by 30%, and speeding installs by 40% with ~45 second setup on fast hardware. A new community plugin repository launched days earlier with nearly 1,000 plugins. DHH also announced incorporating the Omakase (Omicron) Foundation with $8 million in pledged funding from backers including Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, Patrick Collison, Matthew Prince, Jason Fried, and Jack Dorsey, aimed at funding key subsystem developers (including Hyprland's creator vaxry as an exclusive-sponsored full-time contributor), infrastructure, and marketing. The conversation covers security posture — moving away from AUR toward self-hosted, self-built package repos, a one-month lag behind Arch, BTRFS snapshots, and factory reset — plus improved laptop battery life (Dell XPS, Intel Panther Lake) as key enablers for a 'year of the Linux laptop' push in 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed in Omarchy Quattro compared to previous versions of Omarchy? Omarchy Quattro is a from-scratch rewrite using QuickShell, dropping about 17 dependencies and shrinking the ISO by 30% while speeding up installation by roughly 40%, reaching a full install in about 45 seconds on fast hardware. It also switched from a git-checkout-in-home-directory model to a fully packaged system, which reportedly eliminated around 70% of prior bug reports, and introduced a community plugin repository at omarchyplugins.com. _Developers tracking Omarchy's rapid release cadence can follow distro changes like these on daily.dev._ ### How does Omarchy plan to reduce reliance on the Arch User Repository (AUR) for security? Omarchy is moving toward a fully sovereign build and distribution pipeline, compiling packages on its own build machines and hosting them in its own repository behind Cloudflare rather than pulling from the AUR. Only a small set of trusted-vendor packages like Brave still come via AUR, and the plan is to keep shrinking that footprint by cherry-picking the highest-download AUR packages while running a forked Linux kernel with vendor-specific patches (e.g., Dell/Intel XPS optimizations). _Anyone weighing supply-chain risk in Linux package management can track this shift on daily.dev._ ### How is Omarchy's stable release channel structured to avoid breaking installs? Omarchy stable is set to lag the latest Arch packages by one month by default, avoiding overnight breakage from freshly pushed upstream updates, while separate dev, edge, and RC (release candidate) Discord channels let users opt into faster update cycles. Edge packages push roughly every six hours, and a BTRFS-based snapshot system takes a snapshot before every update so users can roll back or factory-reset to the original ISO state if something breaks. _Developers picking a rolling-release Linux setup can weigh trade-offs like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Omarchy Quattro: One Year In — Part 3](https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-quattro-one-year-in-part-3-4yyjuyvog) · SSP Blog · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t) ```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":"TechArticle","headline":"DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T13:03:00.140Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T13:03:49.421Z","description":"DHH announces Omarchy Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite of the Arch-based Linux distribution built around AI agents, moving to QuickShell, cutting 17...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MWvH7BRgwL8/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MWvH7BRgwL8/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ThePrimeTime","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ThePrimeTime","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--J5-GjDeo--/f_auto/v1704628081/logos/primeagen.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,linux","timeRequired":"PT42M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup","description":"DHH announces Omarchy Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite of the Arch-based Linux distribution built around AI agents, moving to QuickShell, cutting 17...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MWvH7BRgwL8/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-08-23T13:03:00.140Z","duration":"PT42M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/cWRsqQf0T","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/MWvH7BRgwL8"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ThePrimeTime","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"DHH Omarchy Quattro Announcement | TheStandup"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-omarchy-quattro-announcement-thestandup-cwrsqqf0t#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What changed in Omarchy Quattro compared to previous versions of Omarchy?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Omarchy Quattro is a from-scratch rewrite using QuickShell, dropping about 17 dependencies and shrinking the ISO by 30% while speeding up installation by roughly 40%, reaching a full install in about 45 seconds on fast hardware. 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