• adderaline@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    there are ways of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, but it requires a fair bit of tech savvy, and you usually need to build your own machine. not sure how easy it is nowadays, but i ran a macOS desktop on a PC for years without many issues. its all linux for me now, though.

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      1 year ago

      Oh you mean a good old fashioned hackintosh! I’m aware, but every update seemed to be a pain in the ass (experimented with that in the past too, I have about a decade of IT experience). I’d rather just get an official Mac. The hackintosh is a cool project but not something I’d want to make a daily driver. I know some people can make it work and I’m happy for them but I found it to be too fiddly.

      For anybody else interested though you can find more info at this link

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      1 year ago

      Not when “Intel based Macs” go out of support. There is no way to run the M1/2 MacOS version without having Apple hardware.

      • adderaline@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        yeah. the proprietary nonsense is what pushed me over to linux in the first place, and that was before they started with their super special ARM chips. RISC-V is still on the horizon, though! hopefully open source ISA will prevail in the decades to come.