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Omarchy is an opinionated Arch-based Linux distribution from David Heinemeier Hansson that hit 1.16 million ISO downloads in its first year and pulled $18.7 million in foundation pledges. Its claim is bigger than pre-installed AI tools: agentic AI as a first-class citizen of the operating system. We walk through the three design decisions that make that real — every setting exposed as a command, a skill file shipped alongside the manual, and bootloader snapshots that make undo a system feature — then look hard at what shipped broken, including a Docker group escalation that sat open for 433 days and command injection through untrusted input. The mechanism is elegant. The security record is not. Both are worth understanding before you install it. Episode #784871 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/784871