A long time ago I was a Linux user, and my then girlfriend was sick of Windows and curious about how "computers work", so I (barely) guided her in installing Ge

A long time ago I was a Linux user, and my then girlfriend was sick of Windows and curious about how "computers work", so I (barely) guided her in installing Gentoo (and once that was done we moved to Ubuntu for simplicity). She hated KDE but quite liked GNOME and XFCE. But then, I tried to install either Tiger or Leopard on a Dell XPS 12" laptop. No WiFi, VESA mode, but enough for a quick demo. She came back from class and instantly fell in love with Mac OS X, so much so that the very same day we bought her a 13" BlackBook. Soon enough I couldn't stand having to endlessly fiddle with and fix Linux as an OS and bought myself a 15" MacBook too, so that I could focus on fiddling and building actual things instead of merely making the OS behave. Some years later, I was handed a Dell XPS 8300 desktop at work. Turns out I couldn't stand Windows, and I was constantly running a Linux VM in it, so I might as well jump to native. But it was a crapfest: unstable graphics driver which randomly failed to initialize, constant tearing that couldn't be dealt with, seemingly random CPU performance issues, GPU/screens that wouldn't respect DCC, power off then instantly power back on, endlessly blinking, AHCI glitches that would spam dmesg, not to mention your typical pulseaudio and bluez mess. And one day, just for kicks, I hackintoshed the thing. It booted right away, with zero glitches, full GPU support, and only ethernet and audio missing, which was quickly fixed by installing kexts that are basically ports from either Linux or FreeBSD drivers. To sum it up, Mac OS X was behaving much better than Linux on that specific non-Apple hardware. I was stumped. The productivity gain was astounding for me, so much so that I kept it around, and used it with increasing frequency. Soon enough, coworkers started to notice and asked me if it was a Linux theme or something. The word spread that Mac OS X was a good thing and that it integrated well into our work environment, the hackintosh was quickly retired in favour of legit Apple hardware, not just for me but for many people in the company as it became a possible option for whoever wanted to have one as a work machine instead of a PC. I can understand Apple going after people trying to turn money on hackintoshed hardware, but I sincerely hope they continue to turn a blind eye on this, because enthusiasts hacking the shit out of this is definitely good for them.