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Omarchy, the opinionated Arch Linux-based setup that ships pre-baked with a Hyprland tiling window manager and a developer-friendly stack of tools and defaults, has just pushed out version 3.7 — and gaming is front and center this time around.
Gaming Gets a Serious Overhaul
The biggest shift in this release is how much easier it’s become to game on Omarchy. Steam can now be installed without any user input whatsoever — no prompts, no configuration, just a clean automated setup. RetroArch also gets a fresh start, arriving fully preconfigured and, notably, no longer relying on the AUR.
Beyond those two, the gaming menu has been expanded to include installers for four additional platforms:
- Lutris — aimed at running Battle.net titles like Diablo, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft
- Heroic Launcher — your gateway to the Epic Games library, though the release notes are upfront that Fortnite and Rocket League are still off the table due to anti-cheat restrictions
- Moonlight — lets you stream games from a remote PC running a Sunshine server, which is a solid option for those with a capable gaming rig elsewhere on the network
- Xbox Cloud Gaming — added as a web app for Game Pass streaming, covering titles that simply aren’t available natively on Linux
It’s a well-rounded setup that covers most of the bases a Linux gamer would realistically need.
A Unified Command-Line Interface
Outside of gaming, one of the more impactful changes is the introduction of a single omarchy command. Rather than hunting through documentation or relying on muscle memory, users now have one central, Bash-tab-completing entry point that surfaces all of Omarchy’s tools — covering updates, themes, fonts, screenshots, debugging, hardware management, Hyprland configuration, installation, setup, and general system commands. It’s the kind of quality-of-life addition that makes a curated distro feel genuinely polished.
New Desktop Features Worth Highlighting
Omarchy 3.7 also brings some handy desktop additions. Screen-based text extraction is now built in via Tesseract OCR — trigger it from the capture menu or with Super + Ctrl + PrtScr, and whatever text is on screen gets pulled straight to your clipboard. Useful for grabbing text from images, PDFs, or anything else you can’t easily copy the traditional way.
Other additions include internal laptop display mirroring to an external monitor, a TUI music player, the ghui GitHub terminal interface, and a set of new aliases for task management.
Visual Polish
The visual side of things has received attention too. Boot unlock screen and SDDM login theming have been unified for a consistent look from the moment you power on. New Omarchy logo backgrounds have been added for default themes, text contrast has been improved across several themes, and compatibility with older Omarchy themes has been broadened. Theming support has also been extended to Helix, Gum, Brave Origin, and color-highlighted man pages.
Control and Brightness Improvements
Users can now toggle direct boot, passwordless sudo, touchscreen recognition, and touchpad state directly from the Omarchy menus — no digging through config files required. Brightness handling has also been refined, with Apple display brightness now folded into standard brightness hotkeys, along with dedicated shortcuts for jumping straight to minimum or maximum brightness levels.
Bug Fixes and Stability
On the fixes front, boot times are faster, Limine rebuilds during installation have been trimmed down to only when necessary, and hybrid GPU detection has improved. Screen recording performs better on slower machines, the ISO installer now prevents you from accidentally selecting the installation media as the target drive, Docker DNS conflicts with UFW have been resolved, and internal monitor detection is more reliable on systems where the built-in display doesn’t identify itself as eDP-1.
All in all, Omarchy 3.7 is a focused, practical release that meaningfully expands what the distro can do for gamers while tightening up the overall experience for everyone else.
For more details, see the changelog.
