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OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Nursie wrote: post #182
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #180

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Depends on your definition of "allow". By default they're blocked, yes, but you can change that by booting into recovery mode, opening a Terminal window, and typing: csrutil disable && csrutil enable --without kext Now unsigned kexts will be allowed to load (while leaving the rest of System Integrity Protection intact). For most software this requirement would be a massive problem, but I'm not sure that applies to th…

While I would agree with that in general, with the rise of the eGPU it seems a little less clear cut. Oh well, it is what it is...

The nVidia Web Drivers never officially supported eGPUs anyway. In order to do it at all you had to use a hack which—surprise!—also required disabling System Integrity Protection!

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/05/nvidia-egpu-thunderbolt-macos...

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by dlivingston »

FuckButtons wrote: post #89
breakfastduck wrote: post #27

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This is likely a huge part of it. I'm primarily macOS but have a LOT of experience with Windows. I still feel like I'm fighting against Windows to do anything. I just think different people are suited to different workflows & macOS and Windows are very very different to each other.

I find the opposite, every time I find myself using Mac OS I find myself fighting to try and do things that should be easy but are instead convoluted.

Can you give some examples? There are exactly two things that I wish macOS would copy from Windows: full paths visible and interactive in Finder, and the ability to create new files within Finder (how is that not a thing?!)

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by MarioMan »

eddyg wrote: post #160

Is there a current "most compatible"/"recommended" hardware list somewhere so if you wanted to buy parts for a new Mac Pro-like Hackintosh you'd have the best chance of "everything working"?

tonymacx86 has maintained a recommended hardware list that gets regularly updated here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-h...

Another useful guide from r/hackintosh lists hardware to avoid: https://dortania.github.io/Anti-Hackintosh-Buyers-Guide/

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #172
ssijak wrote: post #79

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Dont use Ryzen, virtualization does not work, including Docker and some other apps like Adobe ones are buggy. Other than that I agree. I made a hackintosh a month ago for half the price of what I would need to pay Apple and it is rock solid. Everything works including all wireless features like sidecar, airdrop, etc. Sleep, thunderbold, rx5700xt, everything is working well.

I'd sort of do it the sort of reverse way... Run KVM with pass-through to a VM MacOS instance and then run all your docker shit on the Linux host. Best of both worlds right there: 1. You get MacOS with GPU acceleration (which is like the primary feature for making it usable). 2. You get a legit environment to run docker containers... That doesn't have to boot a VM and rob you of all your ram. If you haven't ever used…

I do it that way around (no Docker stuff here, but the KVM with macOS as the guest). Works great.

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

runjake wrote: post #190
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #157

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>He may (loosely) use InsanelyMac for OpenCore discussion, Checking the discussion shows it's not true. >but the rest of the site is generally full of questionable and often outright wrong advice May be you had a bad experience with the site, or may be it really isn't 'noob' friendly anymore, but that doesn't mean you should discredit the actual developers of the tools in favour of the 'How To' guides written about t…

We're going to have to disagree. The InsanelyMac site is riddled with bad advice from questionable sources. Eg. using the beast tools, binary patching kexts for dumb reasons, rando plist changes. I did not have a "bad experience" per se, with the site. It's just full of unschooled people all too eager to offer bad advice.

> using the beast tools

Any mention of the "beast tools" is quite literally banned on Insanelymac, so I think you're getting the two confused. https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275941-very-importan...

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by arm »

dlivingston wrote: post #192
FuckButtons wrote: post #89

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I find the opposite, every time I find myself using Mac OS I find myself fighting to try and do things that should be easy but are instead convoluted.

Can you give some examples? There are exactly two things that I wish macOS would copy from Windows: full paths visible and interactive in Finder, and the ability to create new files within Finder (how is that not a thing?!)

Finder has been able to show interactive, full paths since Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard; it’s just not enabled by default.

To enable it, make Finder the active application, then click View → Show Path Bar (or use the keyboard shortcut ⌥⌘P).

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by tinco »

fotta wrote: post #102
runjake wrote: post #74

Hackintoshes are very stable if: - You buy the right hardware. Intel CPU and AMD GPU. Choose Ryzen if you like those and like tinkering and hacking on your OS a lot. And no, it's very unlikely your Nvidia GPU will ever work with a recent macOS. - You use the vanilla method of macOS install. The dortania guides along with /r/hackintosh are all you need. Avoid tonymacx86, insanelymac, and any software with the word "be…

> Avoid tonymacx86, insanelymac, and any software with the word "beast" in the name. Huh. When did avoiding tonymacx86 become a thing? I built my first Hackintosh in 2010 and relied on tonymacx86 but I haven't paid attention to the community since 2014-onwards.

I haven't run a Hackintosh in over 5 years but there was this transition, it used to be necessary to install custom kexts and do some pretty weird stuff. Then came these uefi bootloaders that did some magic that let you install just fully vanilla MacOS. Pretty great but it basically made all the old guides and advice obsolete. I bet avoiding the old names can keep you out of trouble, even if they're probably still pumping out good stuff.

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by tinco »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #91

The bootloader development in Hackintosh scene never cease to amaze me. I remember the lead developer of Clover bootloader[1] Slice, still developing it on his old Dell with 32 bit Snowleopard when it was being used for Mountain Lion and later. But the interest in Hackintosh seems to be slowing down[2]? , it's not like Macs have become affordable, if anything Mac Pro is prohibitively expensive and hackintosh generall…

I think the answer is simply that Ubuntu has become good enough.

The whole point of running MacOS was to get POSIX compliance with a polished GUI. No Windows, pretty terminals smooth fonts good UX.

Now MacOS has no edge over Ubuntu in any sense. Ubuntu runs Docker natively and Cuda. It has an insanely user friendly installer, it runs on a wide range of hardware with no issues and its default GUI is great.

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by PostThisTooFast »

francis_t_catte wrote: post #37

I use OpenCore, on my 2010 27" iMac of all things. Needed to enable target display mode and native brightness control on the new K610m GPU. So in essence, my actual Macintosh is now a Hackintosh in Apple's eyes. If you have a 2010 or 2011 iMac with a dead GPU btw, check out this thread on the MacRumors forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card...

A friend gave me his dead iMac, and I mostly gutted it and turned it into a monitor with an LCD driver board off eBay.

Kept the stock power supply and put my own PWM module in to control brightness, since some reviews said it wasn't as bright as it was originally.

Re: OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

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Post by PostThisTooFast »

blackhaz wrote: post #3
reimertz wrote: post #2

I bought an EGPU 1.5 years ago with the idea of replacing my gaming computer with my MacBook Pro running Windows. But due to the limitations of Thunderbolt 3 and the throughput from my enclosure, I cannot get consistent frame rates which is critical for playing fast-paced competitive games like Apex legends. It really sucks and this point, my $1000 EGPU is currently acting as a fancy adapter + charger + enabling smoo…

Why bother with Mac? I've just built a Xeon E5-2640 using a Chinese X79 motherboard. NMVe, proper Radeon RX580 GPU - in an open build test bench frame. All in all, something like $250 on eBay for everything. Runs the games I like well and looks great on the table, especially with two big red LED fans in front. :-)

If you want to develop iOS apps, you have to have Mac OS. Even if you use a cross-platform tool, you have to compile and deploy from Mac OS, I think.
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