alt Hacker Newshonestly i'm surprised.
apple still has good hardware but software feels increasingly bloated and buggy.
back in the day I hackintoshed, but now i feel like switching to asahi sometimes (or at least dual booting it) when my silicon is supported.
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stingraycharles • today at 8:49 AM
Yeah the reason I switched to macOS is that pretty much all my hardware was already Apple, and it just integrates so much better.
I did Hackintosh for a year or so as well maybe a decade ago, but that was a scary experience any time you did an OS update.
exe34 • today at 8:24 AM
Yeah my 2012 Mac book air runs nixos. Solid hardware, refuses to die, but it got pretty slow under os x about 10 years ago and I gave up.
Hackintosh makes sense if you require to run Apple software to do something, e.g Xcode for iOS development since you cannot develop, build and publish easily without it. I am not sure if Final Cut or Logic or whatever else adjacent is still an industry standard. I'd think Da Vinci Resolve (which is even on Linux) and FL / Ableton are kings nowadays.
For a brief moment of time in 2020s it was easier to just buy a Mac Mini M2/M4 than bother with a Hackintosh but now with the hardware prices on the rise you have to consider it instead of it being a no-brainer.