Omarchy 4.0.1 · Quattro
The dock is the past. Super is the machine.
Omarchy is the desktop: keyboard first, windows that tile, one shell instead of a pile of daemons. Coding agents are first-class, not a sidebar. Every row below is sourced from official material.
Compared against macOS Tahoe 26 (public 26.6.2)Windows 11 25H2
- 28 / 33rows where Omarchy is better
- 1shell process, not a daemon pile
- 22themes, switched system-wide
- 0claims without a source
The sheet
33 sourced rows. Five acts. Click any row for the receipts.
Better, has it, different, or no — for Omarchy 4.0.1, macOS Tahoe 26, and Windows 11 25H2. Nothing here invents a capability; each open row cites where the claim comes from.
Act IFuture desktop
One process runs the desktop. Plugins, not daemons.
Act IIKeyboard OS
Super is the machine. The mouse is optional.
Act IIIAgent-first OS
Coding agents are wired in, not bolted on.
Act IVBuilder OS
A menu installs the stack. No App Store.
Act VOwn the machine
Encrypted, snapshotted, and yours to read.
| Feature | Omarchy | macOS | Windows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Act IFuture desktopOne process runs the desktop. Plugins, not daemons. | |||
| One shell processBar, launcher, menus, lock, notifications — one Quickshell. Not seven Linux daemons. | Better | Different | Different |
| Plugin-shaped shellInstall a widget — or a whole bar — from git. Setup > Plugins. | Better | Different | Different |
| 22 themes. One switch.Terminal, Neovim, Chromium, lock — restyled together. Backgrounds travel with the theme. | Better | Different | Different |
| Act IIKeyboard OSSuper is the machine. The mouse is optional. | |||
| Super runs the machineCmd and Win land on Super. No remap. Super + K is the only binding you must memorize. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| One paletteApps, themes, Docker DBs, network, install — one fuzzy Super + Space. Super + Alt + Space is apps-only. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| No dock. No icons.The desktop is empty on purpose. One bar, any edge. Terminal and browser are keys. | Better | Different | Different |
| Tiling is the defaultWindows do not overlap. Open a second and they split. Float is Super + T. | Better | Different | Different |
| Instant numbered workspacesSuper + 1–4 jumps. Super + Shift sends. No Mission Control parade. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| ScratchpadSuper + S drops a workspace over this one. Agents live here. | Better | Different | Different |
| Save the layoutPer app, per workspace. Super + Alt + Home remembers the widths. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Close means quitNo Dock zombies. Super + W or Q and the process is gone. | Better | Different | Has it |
| One clipboard reflexSuper + C/X/V in the terminal too. History holds images. Sensitive stays out. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Capture from the keysPrint Screen grabs, records, picks color. The region picker works without a mouse. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Act IIIAgent-first OSCoding agents are wired in, not bolted on. | |||
| First-class coding agentsclaude, codex, opencode, agy, copilot, crush, grok, pi, omp, ori — stubs until you run them. | Better | No | No |
| A default agent. One binding.Setup > Defaults > Agent. Super + Shift + Ctrl + A. a in the terminal. Theme follows. | Better | No | No |
| Agents panel in the barPlan, 5-hour and weekly limits, tokens by day and model. Right-click launches. | Better | No | No |
| Crash, then the agentA coredump toast. Click it. The default agent gets the dump and diagnose-crash. | Better | No | No |
| The Omarchy SkillSymlinked into Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and ~/.agents/skills. | Better | No | No |
| Agent IDE layoutstdl, tds, tdlm, tsl. Super + Ctrl + Return is Herdr. Super + Shift + Ctrl + A picks. | Better | No | No |
| Local models from Install > AILM Studio for the GUI. Ollama for the CLI. Both from the menu. | Better | No | No |
| Grok Bot and ChatGPT desktopSame Install > AI menu. Graphical apps, one path. | Better | Different | Different |
| omarchy agent on the CLIprompt, usage-update, crash — the agent can operate the machine. | Better | No | No |
| Act IVBuilder OSA menu installs the stack. No App Store. | |||
| Mise for every languageInstall > Development: Rails, Node, Go, Rust, Python, and the rest. Versions included. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Install, not an App StoreA menu, or omarchy pkg add. No downloaded .dmg. No Setup.exe. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Windows when you still need itInstall > Windows. Office over RDP. No GPU passthrough — not Premiere, not Fortnite. | Has it | Different | Better |
| Proton. Moonlight. Cloud.Steam/Proton, Moonlight, cloud. Not a native Xbox Game Pass client. | Different | Different | Better |
| Act VOwn the machineEncrypted, snapshotted, and yours to read. | |||
| One UpdateOS and every package. Snapshot first. No per-app nags. | Better | Different | Different |
| Snapshots on every updateRoot rollback before the upgrade. Not /home. That is the deal. | Has it | Has it | Different |
| LUKS. Closed. Not root.Encrypted by default. Inbound closed. Docker is not passwordless root. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| A security team, and a fast-follow4.0.1: auto-review, hardened themes, guarded plugins. omarchy.org/security. | Has it | Has it | Has it |
| Setup is filesFive keyboard panels. The rest is a file you can git. Setup restarts it. | Better | Has it | Has it |
| Secrets stay in RAMQR to clipboard, never disk. otpauth:// skips history. | Better | Has it | Different |
| Hand it over. Wipe it.Gift-install waits for first boot. Reset Computer restores the baseline snapshot. | Has it | Has it | Has it |
Omarchy 4.0.1 · Quattro
Leave the overlapping windows. Keep the muscle memory.
Arch-based, Hyprland tiling, one Quickshell — omarchy-shell. Super is waiting where Cmd and Win used to sit. The official ISO is x86-64 only, and Secure Boot and/or TPM must be turned off before you flash. Root snapshots roll back the system, not your /home.
SHA256 69cbb4e10d98ad831c3c9f245b5757a9d1fedfd0c9592780e977d6f950dea8c3