diff --git a/etc/profile.d/omarchy.sh b/etc/profile.d/omarchy.sh
index 0af8bf13..01e89366 100644
--- a/etc/profile.d/omarchy.sh
+++ b/etc/profile.d/omarchy.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
-# Default OMARCHY_PATH for non-install shells. install.sh overrides this
-# during the install flow to point at the checkout under
-# $HOME/.local/share/omarchy when running in script-install (boot.sh) mode.
-# omarchy-dev-link (Chunk 4) manages a symlink at /usr/share/omarchy that
-# points at a local checkout when active.
-export OMARCHY_PATH="${OMARCHY_PATH:-/usr/share/omarchy}"
+# Default OMARCHY_PATH for non-install shells.
+#
+# - install.sh sets OMARCHY_PATH to $HOME/.local/share/omarchy during the
+#   script-install (boot.sh) flow; that wins because of the :- guards.
+# - omarchy-dev-link manages /usr/share/omarchy-dev as a symlink to a local
+#   checkout. When present, it shadows the package install for everything
+#   that resolves via $OMARCHY_PATH (bin/, default/, shell/, themes/).
+# - Otherwise: the package install at /usr/share/omarchy.
+if [ -z "${OMARCHY_PATH:-}" ]; then
+  if [ -d /usr/share/omarchy-dev ]; then
+    export OMARCHY_PATH=/usr/share/omarchy-dev
+  else
+    export OMARCHY_PATH=/usr/share/omarchy
+  fi
+fi
 
 # Prepend $OMARCHY_PATH/bin if it exists. In normal package mode this is a
 # no-op: bins ship to /usr/bin (already on PATH), and /usr/share/omarchy/bin
-# doesn't exist. The case that matters is omarchy-dev-link, which makes
-# /usr/share/omarchy a symlink to a local checkout; then this prepend lets
-# the checkout's bin/omarchy-* override the /usr/bin copies installed by
-# the package.
+# doesn't exist. The case that matters is omarchy-dev-link, which exposes the
+# checkout's bin/ at /usr/share/omarchy-dev/bin so it can override the
+# /usr/bin copies the package installed.
 case ":$PATH:" in
   *":$OMARCHY_PATH/bin:"*) ;;
   *) [ -d "$OMARCHY_PATH/bin" ] && export PATH="$OMARCHY_PATH/bin:$PATH" ;;