Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distro Launches as a Gaming Edition

Omarchy 3.7 is out, and gaming is the headline feature. The Arch-based distro led by David Heinemeier Hansson has rolled out what it’s calling a Gaming Edition update, overhauling Linux gaming support across the board. Steam now installs automatically without any user input and drops the problematic SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable that was causing compatibility issues with many games. RetroArch got a bigger overhaul, the AUR dependency is gone, making installation much faster, and the emulator comes pre-configured out of the box. Users can now drop their BIOS and ROM files into ~/Games, scan the directory, and they’re ready to go with the CRT Royale shader enabled by default. Beyond emulation, Omarchy 3.7 adds launchers for Lutris (Battle.net games like Diablo, StarCraft, and WoW), Heroic (Epic Games titles without anti-cheat, so no Fortnite or Rocket League), and Moonlight for streaming games from a Windows PC running Sunshine. An Xbox Cloud Gaming web app rounds out the gaming additions, covering Game Pass titles including ones that won’t run natively on Linux.

Outside of gaming, the update introduces a new unified omarchy command that replaces the previous scattered omarchy-* commands, with tab completion and a cleaner interface for installing software, taking screenshots, and analyzing issues. Built-in screen text extraction is also new, powered by the Tesseract OCR engine. The cliamp text-based music player now ships by default, and there’s improved support for ASUS ExpertBook Panther Lake laptops alongside Intel FRED enabled by default on Panther Lake systems. The full release notes covering additional features, improvements, and bug fixes are available on GitHub, where Omarchy 3.7 can also be downloaded.