Will Omarchy run on your Mac?

Boot a Live-Boot environment to find out.

OmaBoot? Live checks your exact Mac in about two minutes, then walks you through hands-on tests of the keyboard, ports, sound, sleep and more. Nothing is installed, and your disks stay read-only.

Download How each test works
  • 46 criteria
  • 2 min quick pass
  • 0 bytes written to your disks
The quick pass running on a MacBook Air: Boot checks the boot path, warns that the screen may go dark for the graphics test, spins a torus, heats the CPU and checks the fans and light sensor, then shows the quick results: this Mac boots Omarchy, 7 passed, 0 failed.

Pick your image

Three editions, one tester. Start with Live.

The tester

OmaBoot? Live

A verifiable fork of the official Omarchy ISO. Test your Mac, and fixes, against Omarchy without installing anything or touching your disks.

First release soonabout 1.2 GB

Installer and tester

OmaBoot? Omarchy

Omarchy's own installer with the tester one menu entry away. Test first, then install from the same stick.

After Liveabout 6 GB

Two sticks

OmaBoot? Slim

Someday, hopefully: a small OmaBoot? stick that works alongside Omarchy's official ISO on a second stick. Test with one, install with the other.

Hopeful future

Downloads, checksums and signatures

How it works

  1. Write to device

    Any USB stick of 2 GB or more (8 GB for OmaBoot? Omarchy). How

  2. Hold Option

    Turn the Mac on, pick OmaBoot? Live from the startup disks.

  3. Test

    A two-minute quick pass with no input, then the full hands-on test. Skip any part you like.

  4. Report

    Send the results to DoesItOmarchy.com, where they help the community: everyone with the same Mac learns what to expect from Omarchy. Offline? Save them to the stick.

A sampling of test screens

Each test explains what to do, shows what the Mac sees, and decides from what it measured.

The quick pass, with Boot saying the applesmc fix is on and the fans answer, and the list of checks with their results.
Quick pass. Two minutes, no input: graphics, display, battery, sound chip, temperatures and fans.
The Wi-Fi test sending data between the Mac and boot.watch, with the joined network and the bytes received so far.
Wi-Fi. Real data to boot.watch and back, every byte checked.
The microphone test: a sound level bar and five notes, D5 E5 C5 C4 G4, with the third note playing.
Microphone. The Mac plays five notes and has to hear them back.
The finish screen: Boot and a big pixel Yay!, the totals, and the choices to submit the report or save a copy to the stick.
Finish. Send the report, or save a copy to the stick for later.

What it tests

The 46 criteria DoesItOmarchy.com judges every Mac by. Each square is one; the fuller it is, the surer the test.

Boot

1 of 4 tested live

Graphics and display

6 of 7 tested live

Input

5 of 9 tested live

Power

4 of 4 tested live

Audio

4 of 8 tested live

Camera

1 of 1 tested live

Network

3 of 3 tested live

Ports

6 of 8 tested live

Thermal

2 of 2 tested live

highmediumneeds an installed systemAll tests, and how each one decides

Your exact Mac, not just the model

One model identifier can cover several different machines. MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) [MacBookPro8,2] came with either a Radeon HD 6490M or a 6750M, and the same identifier's Late 2011 models brought a 6770M: three graphics chips that Linux drives differently.

OmaBoot? Live reads what your Mac really has: its model identifier and board ID, its graphics, Wi-Fi and other chips by their IDs, and finds the one configuration that matches, out of 206 across 121 Mac models. When two could fit, you pick yours from a short list.

Your results then count for that exact configuration on DoesItOmarchy.com, so the next person with the same Mac knows what to expect.

model MacBookPro8,2 board Mac-94245A3940C91C80

15-inch, Early 2011

Core i7 2.0 GHz · Radeon HD 6490M

Core i7 2.2/2.3 GHz · Radeon HD 6750M

15-inch, Late 2011

Core i7 2.2 GHz · Radeon HD 6750M

Core i7 2.4 GHz · Radeon HD 6770M yours

read from the Mac CPU i7-2760QM · GPU 1002:6740 → one match

Your disks stay untouched

Before anything else, every internal disk is set read-only. Nothing is installed and no firmware or startup setting changes. Pull the stick and your Mac is as it was.

Real Omarchy

Built from Omarchy's own ISO, with the same kernels and packages as an official release. Each release shows exactly what differs. Check it