Anyone running Hackintosh? (macOS on non-Apple)

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I had High Sierra running on an Acer Predator last :p But mainly messed with Tiger-Snow Leopard with an Acer TravelMate 2480 with Intel 950 GMA graphics.

Clover was easy back then. With OpenCore I have to figure this out eventually, but everything before that point was pretty straightforward.
 
i considered it because my 2012/2013 imacs became unsupported since a while. But it seems to much trouble with updates and stuff. Also word on the street is that sequoia is the last osx with intel support and will be eoled in like 3 years. so i bought a m4 mini.
 
I've toyed with the idea a few times, as I have zero interest in paying Apple's prices for their hardware, but I keep coming back to the question "What would I do with it?" I have to support Apple computers here at work, and have just recently added a mac mini to my workstation collection. The more I work with MacOS the less I find anything that it offers for me that is better than what I can get with FreeBSD and Windows.
 
macOS will probably stop supporting x86 in the next major version or the next one after that. Since I like up-to-date software that would be a dealbreaker for me.
 
cracauer@ said:
macOS will probably stop supporting x86 in the next major version or the next one after that. Since I like up-to-date software that would be a dealbreaker for me.
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Isn't much of macOS userland ~1 year behind Linux and BSD?
zsh, vim and screen are some examples.

Or do you top them all up with homebrew, brew, 3rd party packages?

But yeah, x86 is a bit of a gonner. And annoyingly the online DRM of the aarch64 builds during post-installation means that even if technically the challenges are overcome, Apple could so easily put a stop to it.
 
kpedersen said:
Isn't much of macOS userland ~1 year behind Linux and BSD?
zsh, vim and screen are some examples.

Or do you top them all up with homebrew, brew, 3rd party packages?

But yeah, x86 is a bit of a gonner. And annoyingly the online DRM of the aarch64 builds during post-installation means that even if technically the challenges are overcome, Apple could so easily put a stop to it.
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I use both homebrew and macports on my Macs, partially to make good for older versions in macOS. I don't think it's 1 year on average, different macOS portions are behind for different reasons. For example, rsync was on rsync2, stiil, because rsync3, although available, changed to the GPL3.

Overall I find macOS to be a pretty competent Unix on the commandline for the Unix programming. When you do macports or homebrew.

I am really not looking forward to the day when Apple invalidates my very expensive (originally) Intel Mac.
 
cracauer@ said:
Overall I find macOS to be a pretty competent Unix on the commandline for the Unix programming. When you do macports or homebrew.
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pkg on macOS would be nice. Both macports and homebrew are cumbersome to use in my experience. homebrews CLI is badly designed and it's made in Ruby.. yuck.
 
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