Omarchy is the Arch Linux desktop I actually sit at. It is an opinionated Hyprland workstation, and version 4, Quattro, replaced the old Waybar stack with one Quickshell process for the bar, launcher, lock screen, and notifications. This tag collects the posts about living on that desktop: installing it, getting a picture on NVIDIA, changing the cursor, and installing the apps that fight the AUR.
If you are deciding whether Quattro belongs on a given homelab box, start with the comparison against Fedora 44. That page is the decision. The first-week guide is the procedure, for after you have already picked the disk. The nomodeset writeup is only for the live USB that never shows the installer. I keep those separate so a black-screen fix does not get buried under a distro argument.
The desk and the appliance are different machines on purpose. Omarchy is the seat in front of the keyboard. Fedora CoreOS is where DNS lives. A search for this tag will not teach you Pi-hole. It will teach you the update menu, Limine, and the workarounds for Resolve and a tarball IDE. The CachyOS and Windows 11 posts are the other forks in the road. Read those when you are choosing a path, then come back here when you are installing.
Start here
- Omarchy 4 Quattro: First-Week Install and Setup Guide
The install itself: ISO checksum, Limine, the first omarchy update, scale and cursor, and a short map of what to do when the session will not come back.
- Omarchy 4 Quattro vs Fedora 44: Which Homelab Daily Driver?
Which box should run Quattro and which should stay on Fedora. Read this before you wipe a disk, not instead of the install guide.
- How to install Omarchy iso with nomodeset (Black Screen Fix)
The live ISO boots GRUB and often hangs on NVIDIA. This is the Safe Graphics rebuild, and it is a USB workaround, not a permanent kernel flag.
- NVIDIA Graphics on Omarchy / Arch: Daily-Driver Setup Guide
After install: proprietary versus open kernel modules, nvidia-smi, Hyprland notes, and when to stop copying nomodeset onto the daily cmdline.
- How to Change Your Cursor Theme to Bibata Modern Classic in Omarchy / Hyprland
Bibata Modern Classic on Hyprland, including the GTK mismatch that makes a new theme look like it never applied.
- How to Install DaVinci Resolve on Omarchy / Arch Linux
The AUR package needs Blackmagic's zip in yay's cache. NVIDIA and AMD fail differently, and both paths are written down.