Show HN: I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon

I wanted to try out Omarchy before doing a full install, but I only have an M series MacBook so I would have to find a laptop and there's no official M support yet.

So I decided to create something that allows people to test and run Omarchy on their devices so they can understand how it feels.

So I built an app that allows you to run Omarchy Quattro as a native, hardware-accelerated app on your Apple Silicon Mac!

It uses QEMU and Apple's HVF, a custom built Omarchy ARM image, a swift app enclosing it, and custom patches on Omarchy, QEMU, Hyprland and more.

I tried many things, and this approach achieved the best results. The native keyboard experience with Super shortcuts works very well, along with all the rest.

It supports any resolution (fixed ratio), retina or non retina displays, audio input / output devices, shared clipboard, and many other features.

Since it runs on top of macOS, native features like universal clipboard and AirPods work smoothly.

It takes ~3min to install, works the same as any other standard macOS app.

The whole project is open source, so feel free it check it out on GitHub, install, PRs, etc.

Show HN: I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon
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Wow, I'm glad to know man!

This is extremely cool :D

Good job. Was going to hold off until I got a new power cord for the old laptop. Now I'll get to see it in action on my MAC. Thanks for this!

This is the right way to see the real thing on an M-series Mac. I used it as the reference while doing the other approach: porting the parts of Omarchy 4 you look at all day to native macOS (AeroSpace for Hyprland, SketchyBar for the bar, Hammerspoon for the menu tree and keybinding overlay, and a theme script that renders Omarchy's own theme templates for Ghostty, Neovim, btop). About 70% of Quattro by a feature-by-feature count; the Quickshell layer and Hyprland groups/scratchpad don't port and the README says so row by row. VM for the full experience, the port for daily driving on the same machine: https://github.com/dividendsolo/omarchy4mac