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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 nileshk »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #210
nileshk wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a hack that allowed me to use the Nvidia web drivers on Mojave on my 2012 15" rMBP. Not sure if it works on Catalina. You have to reapply it every OS update. I don't think there is a hack to get CUDA working, which was last supported on High Sierra. Not sure if the same hack could be used on a Hackintosh (with an old enough card). But for now I would just use High Sierra if you have an Nvidia card, unless yo…

Wait, what? Really? Can you link me?

This is the instructions I followed which includes a link to tool to use:

https://youtu.be/krRXGPUUjvU

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

elagost wrote: post #130

As someone who used to do this myself, I don't quite understand why people still go through all the effort to run macOS. In the past I've built Hackintoshes on desktops and laptops, and it was fun to accomplish (audio through HDMI was especially tricky!), but in the end it was slower, less stable, and not nearly as useful as running Linux on the same hardware. I run Linux on everything these days. What's the draw? Be…

Maybe you don’t need to use adobe products along a solid coding environment? A very common scenario for Webdev.

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

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Post by tinco »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #145
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 can't explain those Google Trends and I won't blame you for trusting them over the feelings of some guy on the internet, but it doesn't match my own experience at all. On the contrary, Hackintosh feels like it has become bigger and more mainstream, relatively speaking. (Mind, I still think the scene's days are numbered due to Apple Silicon.)

Maybe running Hackintosh has become so easy you need less Google queries to achieve it!

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

nileshk wrote: post #211
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, what? Really? Can you link me?

This is the instructions I followed which includes a link to tool to use: https://youtu.be/krRXGPUUjvU

Oh—that won’t give you any graphics acceleration! It’s just a way to trick certain apps into launching when they would otherwise refuse.

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Post by darwingr »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #33

What are everyone’s thoughts on the future of Hackintoshes now that Apple is switching to ARM?

Apple Silicon is not ARM.

Same architecture but this is all about the silicon and what extra hardware accelerated features can apple build into the OS by adding modules to their SoC. That will have little to do with the fact that it's using the ARM architecture in relation to getting those features to work on non Apple Silicon devices.

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Post by satvikpendem »

moystard wrote: post #183
satvikpendem wrote: post #178

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You'd run QEMU KVM instead and use GPU passthrough for a macOS VM. Proxmox is great for this, here's a guide: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2020/04/installing-macos-catali...

Fascinating. I had never considered using Proxmox for this, and had abandoned the idea of building a Hackintosh because of my Ryzen processor.

Yeah there's a lot of success using KVM for this, if you check out r/hackintosh and search for KVM or Proxmox.
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