hegjon's open omacom/omarchy-iso#355 gained a reported seven-commit extension that groups boot files together in squashfs, stores already-compressed modules separately and removes unused services and systemd waits. Medium verification starts after the greeter appears, allowing the first installer screen to arrive sooner.
In omacom/omarchy-iso#355:issuecomment-6517097449, hegjon reported a ThinkPad X200 measurement of 14.1 seconds from kernel start to greeter, compared with 25.5 seconds for the 2026.10.26 ISO. Those are author measurements, with the BIOS menu countdown excluded. 
greptile-apps[bot] also flagged a benchmark timeout path that could leave QEMU running; the proposal remains unmerged.
