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> I've had less trouble with drivers than I had with Linux. My hackintosh (currently on my second one, it's a 2012 i5 machine) has less stability and driver is

• cptskippy 10y ago
  Upgraded Windows 10, clean install with Manufacturer's drivers, or truely clean install? I've found that only by avoiding drivers direct from the manufacturer do you ever achieve true stability in Windows.
• shaki-dora 10y ago
  Yeah, I've had some trouble with driver availability (the onboard bluetooth doesn't work). But nothing has ever crashed, graphics and SSD performance are what the hardware offers, even sleep works flawlessly. And I had originally planned to use Linux and hadn't even researched the hardware. Made me think about the argument that Windows needs to support so many hardware combinations that <X> which I seem to remember sometimes hearing :) Although, to be fair, I obviously bought rather mainstream components and am not running RAIDs etc.
• kitsunesoba 10y ago
  I haven't tried newer versions of Windows, but the 2008 Dell workstation laptop I used for a few years was more stable under OS X than under Windows 7 or Linux. Windows 7 had an issue where the laptop's Quadro graphics card would blue screen whenever power management kicked in, that to my knowledge still isn't fixed in driver updates (the community "fix" was to keep the card running at full speed all the time). Under Linux, the graphics was an issue too — nouveau gave lackluster performance and proprietary drivers would periodically lock up. Hackintoshed OS X (10.9 Mavericks in this case) just treats the card as an 9600M GT and runs it without issue. No panics, no lockups, and no performance hit.