OmacVM

Try Omarchy is a macOS application that runs the upstream Omarchy desktop on Apple Silicon Macs without manual setup. It packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple's Hypervisor Framework, and a Swift/AppKit launcher. The guest image is built from pinned Arch Linux ARM packages and a pinned Omarchy source revision, with temporary fixes recorded by hash in the guest build specification. The application provides hardware-accelerated ARM64 virtualization and VirGL graphics, a resizable native window with automatic guest-resolution and HiDPI updates, Mac audio input and output selection, two-way clipboard sharing for text and PNG images, one optional shared Mac folder, and loopback-only TCP and UDP port forwarding from macOS into Omarchy. It is distributed as a signed and notarized DMG, and the first launch provisions the Linux account and guest environment. Video decoding is currently CPU-only, which can make high-resolution playback slow. Try Omarchy is not official or affiliated with Omarchy.

Omarchy is an opinionated, preconfigured, terminal-oriented and agentic Arch Linux-based desktop distribution and ready-to-use Linux setup by DHH, developed by Omacom. It provides a tiling desktop workflow with navigation, hotkeys, themes, clipboard history, reminders, text extraction and dictation, screenshots and recording, an Omarchy command-line interface, terminal and Neovim tooling, AI and development tools, shell utilities, browsers, web apps, gaming support, networking, dotfiles, updates, and system snapshots. It includes applications such as Chromium, Obsidian, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, and OBS Studio. Its extensive manual covers configuration, hardware, troubleshooting, and installation, including dual-boot and unattended installation options, and is maintained in the repository's `manual/` directory and mirrored to learn.omacom.io. Omarchy is released under the MIT License.

Try Omarchy for Windows is a Windows launcher maintained by Omacom that runs the full Omarchy Linux desktop in a window without dual booting, VMware, or VirtualBox. It uses QEMU on the Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX), boots a prebuilt x86_64 Arch image with Omarchy, and renders the desktop through virtio-gpu, virgl, and Venus Vulkan via WINQ-EMU, with automatic CPU-rendering fallback. The console-less launcher enables Windows virtualization, downloads and SHA256-verifies the GPU runtime and guest image, creates and supervises the virtual machine, and stores its data in a chosen local folder. It provides GPU or CPU rendering, clipboard sharing, an optional shared Windows folder, port forwarding, backups, diagnostics, updates, and optional Start-menu and Desktop shortcuts. The project also includes reproducible guest-image build tooling, QMP controls, PowerShell scripts, and an experimental offline portable mode. The application is built in Go for Windows; the repository's scripts and documentation are MIT-licensed, while Omarchy and the guest image contents have separate licenses.

oMLX is an open-source LLM inference server for Apple Silicon Macs, managed through a macOS menu-bar application. It serves text, vision, OCR, embedding, and reranking models through compatible API endpoints, with model discovery and management, monitoring, continuous batching, and caching. Its caching system keeps KV cache in a hot in-memory tier and a cold SSD tier, allowing cached context to remain reusable across requests even when the conversation context changes. The project can be installed as a macOS app, through Homebrew, or from source, and includes a CLI for controlling the app-managed server. The repository states that it requires macOS 15 or later, Python 3.11–3.13, and Apple Silicon hardware.

macOS is a proprietary, Unix-based desktop operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac computers. It is built on the Darwin (XNU) kernel and provides the Aqua graphical environment with native application frameworks such as AppKit, Cocoa, and SwiftUI, a POSIX-compliant user space, and services including iCloud, Handoff, and the Mac App Store for app distribution. macOS runs on Intel x86_64 and Apple silicon (ARM64) architectures with support for Universal binaries, includes security features like Gatekeeper and System Integrity Protection, and is licensed and distributed by Apple as part of Mac hardware and system updates.