Ryan Hughes releases Omarchy 4.0.4 while Quattro RS continues: the bespoke linux-omarchy kernel rolls out for responsiveness under load, gaming/AMD HDMI smoothness, faster Btrfs ops, power tweaks, and fixes for audio, touchpads, display freezes, and slow resume. ISO and Menu → Update → Omarchy install paths included.
bastidotnet says "Omarchy Stories 006 with Eduardo Martínez @martiano is online now!", tagging dhh and OmarchyStories and linking the YouTube episode, and in a follow-up reply links the Apple Podcast episode.
SiliconForested posts an Omarchy Mac + Aurora Silicon Update: "We are bringing online new hardware at an incredible pace thanks to AI (SI?) and strong team work from both the Omarchy M Team and the Omarchy Mac community at large." They count 27 releases (19 stable), 553 commits, and 31 PRs (17 merged) "across iconidentify/aurora-linux + aurora-silicon/linux", with 24 people involved, in "5 days of Aurora (Linux on Apple Silicon) kernel work": one kernel for every Apple Silicon Mac now, with M1, M2, M3 and the MacBook Neo all running the same build; M3 Pro built-in display + GPU; in 12.0, M3 Pro external displays, USB-C on all 3 ports + HDMI at 4K, and three screens at once; one m1n1 boot loader for every Mac; Thunderbolt docks on M1/M2 Pro & Max, two monitors per dock, and Studio Display brightness; Touch ID on more M1/M2 Macs, plus reset/enroll fixes; Neural Engine on M1 Max & M2 Max, MacBook Neo Wi-Fi, and video decode on by default; and M3 Air bring-up underway with remote testers. They say it is all built on top of Asahi Linux and that the kernel is a preview of what's to come in their official release; the still is a dark card titled "5 days of kernel" and reading "Linux on Apple Silicon. One kernel for every Mac, 11.17 → 12.0.", with "27" releases, "553" commits, "31" pull requests, and "24" people, a list of version-numbered changes, and a "THANK YOU (GITHUB)" list of contributors.
lxztlr says the German computer magazine c't featured an article on Omarchy and adds "Of course, it wasn't about the technology."; the still is the article page from c't 21/2026 S. 14 headed "Oligarchen-Linux" with the subhead "Der rasante und problematische Aufstieg von Omarchy" by Sylvester Tremmel.
