Who
I run Linux on Macs. Omarchy. Asahi. The camera hole already has Naarchy. The install story for "buy an M3 in the store and walk out on Hyprland" did not.
Upstream Asahi did the science. Caution is correct for a research project. Operators who want Omarchy-class polish still hit a wall of half-truths: installers that whisper "coming soon," GPU claims without pixels, M4 rows that pretend ADT dumps are optional.
Omnux is for the person who already lives on Apple Silicon or is about to, and who wants the frontier packaged with a truth table that wins when marketing loses. M1/M2 daily drivers. M3 experimental owners who will share traces. Contributors and agents grinding DCP and AGX against real metal. Builders who read STEERING before the landing page.
If you file issues with receipts and refuse vaporware, that is the room.
What
I stood up an integration-first umbrella: omnux.
Not a mega-fork that absorbs the world. A monorepo that coordinates docs, steering, and component wiring. Kernel work lives in linux/ on an omnux branch. Boot stack in m1n1/. Installer in the asahi-installer track. Packages in PKGBUILDs. GPU attempt in omnux-gpu under MIT. clean-room, hardware-trace driven, and honest that nothing is "working" until DRM render nodes exist on a physical M3.
One sentence of north star from GOAL.md: a person walks into an Apple Store, buys an M3 MacBook, and walks out running Omnux. Omarchy's Hyprland desktop on Asahi's foundation with everything working, installed without a single manual step.
That sentence is not true yet. The definition of done is a checklist: install, boot, display, GPU, power, input, connectivity, audio, desktop meta package, recovery stick. M0 Foundation is checked. M1 "M3 installs are boring" is next: GPU acceleration is the moonshot long pole.
Install today from macOS or recoveryOS:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaelmonetized/asahi-installer/omnux/scripts/bootstrap-omnux.sh | sh
M1/M2: daily-drivable, full acceleration on the Asahi baseline. M3: experimental track, OMNUX_EXPERIMENTAL, software rendering until the GPU and proper DCP land. NVMe, WiFi, Bluetooth, keyboard/trackpad, audio paths already in the working column. M4: bring-up patches ahead of upstream; blocked on physical ADT dumps. M5/M6: nothing public exists; September 22, 2026 customer availability is the earliest realistic dump date for the August 25 lineup.
Sibling tooling: omnux-report. one command, offline-capable, consent + redaction, .tar.zst + SHA256. Validated on a real M1 Pro Omarchy box. SEP evidence collector added without scooping keys or biometrics. Live USB story: omarchy-mx-mac-iso S4 installer pipeline verified on loopback (plain + LUKS2, 51 assertions); hardware USB boot still open.
STEERING is non-negotiable: truth is a feature, upstream first, integration not fabrication, local CI on own metal, MIT where we wrote it, user owns the machine, fire with receipts.
Landing / truth table: michaelmonetized.github.io/asahi-installer.
Where
It lives where Apple Silicon owners actually sit, and where the signed boot chain forces honesty.
First install is still recoveryOS or macOS. Apple Silicon does not boot PC-style ISOs from cold. A USB stick becomes bootable after Linux is on internal storage. We track direct-USB-boot work; we do not pretend it shipped.
Repo: michaelmonetized/omnux. Landing and truth table on Pages: michaelmonetized.github.io/asahi-installer. GPU siege issues on omnux-gpu. Diagnostics: omnux-report.
On this machine the clone is /home/michael/Projects/omnux at 9b5e80d. Builds and releases are meant to run on maintainer metal via Makefile + installer build-local.sh. no hosted Actions gatekeeper. Audience sits next to the Omarchy / Asahi tribe and anyone who already treats a SUPPORT matrix as sacred text.
When
2026-08-25. Monorepo init. README, GOAL, ROADMAP, STEERING, build targets. Submodules wired: kernel, m1n1, installer, pkgs, gpu. Same day Apple announces Mac mini M6/M5 Pro and Mac Studio M5 Max/Ultra. installer gate gains explicit M6 messaging; status snapshot notes September 22 as earliest ADT dump date. MX Mac live installer S4 lands in code with the asahi mkinitcpio hook fix that would have shipped every install without WiFi/GPU firmware. M3 GPU siege plan drafted; seventeen public issues filed. Announcement drafts get the marketing language stripped out.
2026-08-26. omnux-report linked and validated at v0.1.0. complete redacted bundle on M1 Pro Omarchy, ten fixture checks green. Founder rewrite of the announcement; agent-army mandate recorded in GOAL (DHH / Omarchy community: deploy agents, owners share telemetry). TouchID confirmed on Omarchy for T1-chip TouchBar Macs by @0xBOYD3. first known Linux TouchID. SEP research program filed across omnux-gpu issues; report grows a sep/ collector.
2026-08-27. SEP enablement frontier verified from first principles against apstrand/m2-air-touchid work: apple_sep can bind, firmware stages, and still the AP cannot start the halted SEP. CPU_CONTROL read-as-zero, write-ignored. Lever is firmware / boot-policy, not a tidy Linux driver patch. Biometric stac reverse-engineering remains the multi-year wall. Sixteen commits from init to HEAD. Progress log closed the week with receipts.
Three days of foundation. That is the clock so far.
Why
Asahi proved locked silicon is not impossible silicon. Upstream moves at the speed of caution. I needed a shipping lane that compresses time-to-user for every public patch, and a voice that refuses to call software rendering a desktop.
I wanted the truth table to beat the press release. I wanted M3 owners to install with eyes open: experimental, hot, battery-hungry until GPU and DCP land, and still useful for traces. I wanted diagnostics owners control, a live stick path rehearsed on loopback before metal, and a GPU project that stays MIT so upstream can take everything.
So the umbrella exists. The curl bootstrap exists. The seventeen-issue siege map exists. The report produces a tarball with a SHA256. TouchID on T1 is celebrated without pretending M-series SEP is solved.
Omnux is still early. M3 installs are not boring yet, Hyprland is not hardware-accelerated on M3, USB hardware boot is unverified, M4 needs ADTs nobody has dumped into our tree. That is fine. The steering holds. The receipts link. The silicon generations are labeled honestly.
The truth table is for people who bought the Mac for the metal and stayed for the desktop.