Marcelo Alcantara and Birk Skyum join Omarchy Core to lead the Mac and Snapdragon rollouts
The coordinators behind Omarchy M and Omarchy Dragon are now part of Omarchy Core, with a mandate to finish the job on every M-chip Mac and every supported Snapdragon laptop.
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Omarchy Core has two new members. In a post on omarchy.org dated November 5, 2026, DHH announced that Marcelo Alcantara and Birk Skyum are joining Omarchy Core, calling them “two of the people doing the most to take Omarchy beyond x86.” The official Omarchy account put it plainly on X: Marcelo comes in as the M team delegate and Birk as the Dragon team delegate, and the goal is to “perfect and complete the Omarchy rollout to all M-chip Macs and all @Snapdragon PCs.”
Marcelo (@maralcbr) was the one building the native Mac installer when Omarchy M was introduced in September. According to DHH, he has since become the coordinator of the whole effort: sixteen people around the world, each on a different layer of the stack, from GPU drivers and displays to Touch ID and the installer itself.
That work shipped in Omarchy 4.5. Mac owners can download an app or run brew install omacom/mac/omarchy to put Omarchy alongside macOS on an M1, M2, M3 or Neo MacBook, with no USB stick involved. DHH credits the whole Omarchy M team, saying it “finished what Asahi started” and is already pushing on to M4, M5 and M6.
This week, Marcelo also landed a small but meaningful change: a pair of pull requests merged on November 4, 2026 that add stable channel templates for Apple Silicon, so Macs are no longer limited to the edge and rc channels. Stable becomes a choice in omarchy-channel-set and the menu, while the default channel on Macs stays edge. The change targeted the final 4.5.0 build, which was published on GitHub the next day.
Birk (@BirkSkyum) joined Omarchy Dragon in September with a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x and, per DHH, a track record of upstream fixes in Arch Linux ARM, libcamera, PipeWire, systemd and the kernel. He now coordinates the bring-up of the entire Snapdragon lineup: gathering the machines, figuring out what works on each one, and making sure fixes land where they help everyone.
DHH points to his fingerprints on the ARM work in 4.5: no more pointless reboot prompts after every update, cameras that show up at login on Snapdragon laptops, and apps offered or hidden based on what actually runs on ARM. The stated target is an upcoming release where every Snapdragon machine Omarchy supports just works, from sleep and battery to video and cameras. “That’s the bar,” DHH wrote.
Birk has kept up the pace this week in omarchy-pkgs, where his pull requests merged between November 5 and 6 add device trees or hardware IDs for the HP OmniBook 5 14 and 16, the ASUS Vivobook S16 and Vivobook 16, the Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 and IdeaPad Slim 3x, the Surface Laptop 8 and the Dell Inspiron 14 5441. Not all of them are fully there yet: the pull requests note that the OmniBook 5 16 and the Inspiron 14 5441 haven’t booted this kernel yet, and the IdeaPads have no sound until a topology file ships.
The reactions were warm. DHH summed it up on X as “Incredible projects, incredible teams.” Ryan Hughes, who merged every one of the pull requests above, wrote that it has been a pleasure working with both of them and that he “couldn’t be happier to have them on Omarchy Core.”
Source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/11/marcelo-alcantara-and-birk-skyum-join-omarchy-core
