· Archive
Friday, 23 October 2026 00:00 UTC – Saturday, 24 October 2026 06:00 UTC
Notification panel is removed
Pull request 16430, merged into quattro, removes the notification panel and every notification setting, and leaves their current defaults hardcoded. Pull request 16429 takes out snooze and the screen-sharing offer. The bar bell is a plain Do Not Disturb toggle.
Read the story →Dragging a bar widget well clear, with no insertion edge in reach, removes it
Pull request 6782, merged into quattro, removes a bar widget when a drag pulls it well clear of the bar with no insertion edge in reach. Reordering by drag is unchanged.
M6 Neural Engine powers on
Joshua Warren said the Neural Engine on his M6 Mac mini on Omarchy is powered on and its control processor answers. He said the first MLX operation failed on one GPU helper missing from the driver.
RTX 5060 runs a model on Linux over USB4 on one M1 Max
Joshua Warren said an RTX 5060 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro, Linux, over USB4, runs “Qwen3.8-27B” fully on the card at 25 tps on CUDA after a 10-line fix for 16K memory pages.
Arc Pro card runs a model on one M1
Joshua Warren said a 24GB Arc Pro B60 in a Sonnet Thunderbolt dock, on his M1 MacBook Pro running Omarchy, runs “Qwen3.8-27B” on the card at 17 tps.
Fingerprint removal deletes prints stored on the reader
Pull request 16403, merged into quattro, deletes a user's prints on the reader with fprintd-delete before the local files go. A match-on-chip reader keeps each enrolled print on the device as well as in /var/lib/fprint.
Touch ID stays off until a Mac owner agrees
Pull request 16360, merged into quattro, asks a Mac owner to agree before Touch ID turns on. Turning it on creates a Linux key store and advances a Secure Enclave anti-replay state that macOS shares, so the owner has to read what that means first.
Hermes on ARM seeds linux-arm64-unpacked
Pull request 16124, merged into quattro, seeds the Hermes app on aarch64 into linux-arm64-unpacked, where an ARM update swaps the app in place. An existing ARM install seeded under linux-unpacked keeps that copy, and `--now` does not seed a second app.
In brief
Only one boot of Randy's M3 Pro worked with “an Omacom 7.2.11-based test kernel”, “a matching private Mesa build for G15”, and “a temporary m1n1 GPU-on handoff”
Randy said his M3 Pro GPU worked on only one boot, with “an Omacom 7.2.11-based test kernel”, “a matching private Mesa build for G15”, and “a temporary m1n1 GPU-on handoff”. Another had a DCP failure, and he is retesting before calling it a repeatable recipe.
Omarchy QA kicks off one nightly test
ThePrimeagen said Omarchy QA is kicking off every morning on nightly builds, with one test so far. He said there should be 50 tests soon.
X Panel puts a real X session in a pinned side panel
Andrés Villagrán said X Panel 1.1 puts a real X session in a pinned side panel, one Super+Shift+X away, and saves its size per monitor.
Mailbox puts Gmail and HEY inboxes in the bar
Andrés Villagrán said Mailbox puts Gmail and HEY inboxes in the bar, reads the mail tabs already open, locally, and uses no passwords and no OAuth.
Omarchy worked on an iPad 2 and still needs a lot of optimization
Andrés Villagrán said Omarchy worked on an iPad 2 and still needs a lot of optimization.
Huawei Mate Fold is hooked up as an external display
David Heinemeier Hansson said he hooked a Huawei Mate Fold up as an external display for a laptop, with an 18-inch screen, and hopes a full install is possible soon.
Google Kano runs Omarchy
Christoffer Hallas said a Google Kano runs Omarchy.
Dell is in the lead with reported Omarchy installed on OmaHCL
Christoffer Hallas said Dell is in the lead with reported Omarchy installed on OmaHCL.
A disk stands in for the Omarchy ISO USB
Mihai said the Omarchy Linux ISO can boot with no USB, with the disk standing in for it, and that a Linux version is releasing soon.