Pimp up your Mac Omarchy Style,The Best macOS Setup And It's Not What You'd Expect

Got an M3/M4 or M5 Mac and stuck on macOS? OmaMac — a keyboard-centric setup for macOS that gives you an Omarchy-like desktop experience without leaving Apple Silicon behind.

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You can get Omamac Here

https://github.com/omacom-io/omamac

I found this buried on GitHub with zero fanfare and it genuinely changes how a Mac feels to use. Tiling windows, workspace switching, a launcher in the centre of the screen, no dock, no floating chaos — just clean, focused workspaces exactly like Omarchy. If you've been jealous of the Linux desktop but can't ditch your MacBook, this gets you surprisingly close.

WHAT IT DOES

OmaMac bundles together Rectangle Pro for window positioning, Hammerspoon for keyboard-driven window navigation, and Raycast as the app launcher. It configures nine workspaces, strips away the dock, and maps keybindings that mirror Omarchy — Meta key to switch desktops, Super+Space to launch apps, tiling shortcuts to snap windows left, right, full screen.

It also installs the dev toolchain — Git, Node, Ruby, Docker Desktop, Vim, Tmux, Starship prompt, Claude Code, and more. One curl command and it sets up your entire environment.

THE INSTALL

On Apple Silicon it's a single command from the GitHub page. I ran it on an Intel Mac which needed a small tweak to the script because Homebrew installs to a different folder, but on M1 and above it should be straightforward.

The script runs through everything automatically. At the end there are a few manual steps — you need to create nine workspaces manually, disable some default macOS shortcuts that conflict, import the Rectangle Pro and Raycast configs from hidden dotfiles, and log out and back in.

MY EXPERIENCE

I've been on Omarchy for a while now and going back to a standard Mac desktop makes my brain explode. Floating windows, the dock, Spotlight — it's just not how I work anymore. OmaMac fixes almost all of that. I can switch workspaces, tile windows, launch apps from a clean prompt, and actually focus on what I'm doing.

It's not perfect — you're still on macOS so there are quirks. The launcher isn't quite as snappy as Walker on Omarchy. Some of the key mappings take getting used to because macOS handles modifier keys differently. But for anyone stuck on Apple Silicon who wants that clean, keyboard-driven workflow, this is the closest you'll get without dual booting.

LINUX ON APPLE SILICON

Quick mention — there is a Fedora Asahi remix that works on M1 and M2 Macs. It's getting better but it's still limited compared to running Linux on Intel or AMD hardware. If you've got an M1 or M2, it's worth looking at. M3 and above aren't supported yet.

For now, if you're on a newer Mac, OmaMac is the pragmatic choice. Get the desktop experience you want while keeping the hardware you've got.

OTHER OMACON PROJECTS

The OmaMac script lives under DHH's OmaCon GitHub org alongside Omarchy itself. There's also OmaTerm which appears to be a headless server configuration — I haven't dug into that yet but I'll take a look in a future video.

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