Chapters
  1. Welcome to Omarchy!
  2. Getting Started
  3. Coming From Mac or Windows
  4. Navigation
  5. The Top Bar
  6. Themes
  7. Hotkeys
  8. Unified Clipboard & History
  9. Reminders
  10. Notices
  11. Text Extraction & Dictation
  12. Screenshots & Recording
  13. Toggles, Idle & the Screensaver
  14. Omarchy CLI
  15. Terminal
  16. Neovim
  17. AI
  18. Development Tools
  19. Shell Tools
  20. Shell Functions
  21. TUIs
  22. GUIs
  23. Browsers
  24. Commercial apps/services
  25. Web Apps
  26. Gaming
  27. Filling out PDFs
  28. Windows VM
  29. Other Packages
  30. Updates
  31. Dotfiles
  32. Shell Plugins
  33. Monitors
  34. Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad
  35. Networking
  36. System sleep
  37. Hardware authentication
  38. Fonts
  39. Backgrounds
  40. Prompt
  41. Branding
  42. Common tweaks
  43. Making your own theme
  44. Mac support
  45. Troubleshooting
  46. FAQ
  47. System snapshots
  48. Security
  49. Omarchy on...
  50. Dual Boot Install
  51. Unattended Installs

Dual Boot Install

You’re able to install Omarchy to a single partition alongside Windows or other installations.

This installation method still comes with LUKS encryption for the partition by default so it’s effectively no different than full drive and simply requires free space to be available on the disk.

Making Space on Windows

To install alongside Windows, type disk management in the start menu and select the option for Create and format hard disk partitions.

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Find the appropriate partition, right click, and choose Shrink Volume.

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Input the amount you’d like to shrink the volume by. Note that this will be the size of your future Omarchy install inclusive of the boot partition.

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When you’re finished, you should see something like this where the 50GB section is where we’ll install Omarchy in this example.

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Installing Omarchy

The install process for Omarchy is effectively the same as normal. After you select your disk, you’ll be given the option of Free space install. Select that option to prevent wiping the full disk.

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Confirm that everything looks good and wait for the install to finish like normal. This is also where you could elect to install unencrypted (not recommended) just like on a full-drive install. dual-boot-6

Adding Other Installs to the Bootloader

When you finish your Omarchy install, you’ll notice that the Limine bootloader is the default now. With this, you can also add options to Limine for your other installs such as Windows.

In order to do that, run limine-scan and follow the prompts to add whichever items you’d like to your limine config. Then when you boot, you’ll see your normal options for Omarchy, as well as Windows Boot Manager or others.

Bitlocker

It’s important to note that this install method is not compatible with Bitlocker as it encrypts the entire drive, not just the partition. If you encounter an error stating that Bitlocker is enabled, boot to Windows, go to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Device encryption and toggle Bitlocker off. It may take some time to decrypt the drive.

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