Spotify and Netflix Become Default Web Apps in the Next Omarchy, and the Acer Aspire 16 AI Gets Audio

A few more merged PRs for the next Omarchy, from Omarchy Central.

Spotify and Netflix ship by default

• Spotify is now a default web app like YouTube, with the launcher and icon on new machines from first boot.
• Super+Shift+M still works. omarchy-launch-spotify opens the native client if /usr/bin/spotify exists and the web app if it doesn’t, so “existing native installs are unaffected.”
• The on-demand Spotify installer menu entry is gone. The manual notes the web player has no offline downloads.
• Netflix joins the defaults for new installs only. Existing machines pick it up with a launcher refresh or Restore Preinstalls. It runs in Chrome for Widevine, and the window floats instead of tiling.

Acer Aspire 16 AI audio

The Snapdragon Acer Aspire 16 AI (A16-11M) has had no sound under Omarchy. Two PRs from Birk Skyum add a device-tree sound card, a UCM profile and a topology package so the speakers, headset and mics work, plus a migration that installs it and asks for a reboot. The PRs say plainly that it’s “not tested on the laptop yet,” so wait for GenericCPU’s test report before calling it fixed.

My take

Web apps by default make sense for streaming. I like that the Spotify launcher still prefers the native client if you’ve installed it. The Acer work is more of the steady Snapdragon push DHH promised for 4.6.

God Bless, and May the Source Be with You!

References & Further Reading

• Spotify and Netflix are joining Omarchy’s default web apps (Omarchy Central)
• Acer Aspire 16 AI audio support is merged for the next Omarchy (Omarchy Central)
• Omarchy PR #18485 (GitHub)
• Omarchy PR #18544 (GitHub)