Most Linux distributions hand you a foundation and a shrug. Omarchy hands you a finished desk.

It is an omakase Linux distribution based on Arch, the tiling window manager Hyprland, and the desktop construction-kit Quickshell. "Omakase" is the sushi term: you don't order, the chef decides. In this case the chef is DHH, and the distribution is the answer to a specific question — what if someone spent a year making all the tiling-WM decisions for you, and you just used the result?

The project is MIT licensed, incubated at 37signals, and is now on version 4.x.

What it actually is

Strip the branding and Omarchy is three things stacked: