Joshua Warren, who’s part of the Omarchy M team, got Omarchy running on the new 14-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR touchscreen in three days, Omarchy Central reports. Day one (Nov. 11): “less than 8 hours I went from first macOS boot to Omarchy on my new laptop,” crediting other contributors’ work. Day two: “GPU works, touchscreen works! WiFi works.” His agent built a calibration tool that showed the touch sensor is laid out upside down, so taps landed mirrored. The touch driver is a pull request on Aurora Silicon’s kernel, and Mesa reports an “Apple M5 Max (G17C B1)” with OpenGL ES 3.2 and Hyprland on the GPU.
Day three: “Touch ID, the camera and all three USB-C ports work.” Reading the fans and 335 sensors turned up a power profile stuck on performance; switching to balanced cut idle draw from 74 W to 20 W.
My take
Three days on brand-new Apple silicon. That’s what a good team plus good agents looks like. Still early, so don’t put your only work laptop on it yet.
God Bless, and May the Source Be with You!
