Omarchy 4.5 Released With Apple Silicon Support, More Desktop Customizations

Omarchy 4.5 is out today as a big feature update to this Arch Linux based operating system. Omarchy is the project's first release where they have expanded beyond x86_64 to now support some AArch64 hardware too. Apple Silicon is a primary support target along with NVIDIA N1X laptops while the Snapdragon X laptop support is forthcoming. Omarchy 4.5 is reported to work on M1 / M2 / M3 and Neo MacBook hardware. This builds off the work done by Asahi Linux and others. On the NVIDIA ARM side, in addition to N1X there is also DGX Spark desktop support. On the desktop side, Omarchy 4.5 brings floating workspaces with a dock. There are also five new default apps, including for making presentations from a Markdown file, Sugned for paperwork handling, Disktree to inform the user what is filling their disk, Monologue for recording your web camera, Gliff for remote desktop over SSH, and Elsewhen as a world clock. Omarchy 4.5 also improves its integration around Microsoft 365 on the web, Superwhisper is now the default Omarchy dictation engine, faster installs, and a variety of other updates. The lengthy list of changes to find with Omarchy 4.5 can be found via their release announcement at Omarchy.org. Omarchy 4.5 downloads on GitHub.