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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A Wine-like Hackintosh is coming

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Very cool. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Abandoned mine several years ago. Kind of a shame, they were a good option for a while for people who weren't windows fans but didn't want to run linux full time. Apple just doesn't really have any offerings for people who want a desktop that's upgradeable, but don't want to drop the money on a Mac Pro.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I’ve heard that one before…

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

One more reason to switch to Linux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there no way to get it to run on ARM systems? Are none of them powerful enough to be useful without being Macs?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ARM isn't plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)

You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer

Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won't have devicetrees for other devices.

You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Given Apple‘s past, the most they will do is, at some future date, make macOS capable of reading custom JSON device tree files. Maybe

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Best lil' machine I ever had was a 10 inch Dell mini Hackintosh. Loved it, and got me through grad school .

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago

The nice thing about the Hackintosh was the upgradability/repairability. Wishing Apple would bring some of that back.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could have your cake and eat it too, which is to say that you could run the Mac version of Photoshop because that apparently mattered to some people. Now, all that’s over, so if you love weird modifier keys on your keyboard and a sleek, glassy operating system, you’ll have to pay the big bucks for Apple hardware again. The Hackintosh is dead.

I find the modifier keys to be normal. I find the ending of this article to be weird.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can literally get that sleek glassy look on Linux too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not in a straightforward or easy way (at least for new people)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would I want that? I don’t even want it on my Mac.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

What you don't want vista-fruitcake? Trash nobody wanted then so we repackaged it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I would be happy to return to the Snow Leopard aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Was coming down the line ever since M1. I guess you could try with a arm hackintosh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Exactly this. ARM is killing Hackintosh, and it’s been talked about a while. Such a shame too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Yep, I know the writing was on the wall ever since they announced Silicon. While annoyed at the time, getting out from under Intel's thumb was probably the right choice, and they're way more powerful machines as a result. Still not a fan of Apple myself, but wanting to do it themselves is respectable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess you could try with an arm hackintosh.

Impossible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Why the downvotes? Apple silicon ARM is not the same ISA as any existing ARM. There's extra undocumented instructions and features. Unless you want to reverse engineer all that, and make your own ARM CPU, you cannot run (all of) macOS on an off the shelf ARM chip. Making it effectively "impossible".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fair, I was not going to try.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess you could also virtualize it through qemu on arm to get good compatability

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just an idea. I still use win 11.