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> My only criticism of the state of building a Hackintosh is the amount of cargo cult advise out there. Absolutely right. I think the issue behind this is tha
by mmm_grayons 7y ago
> My only criticism of the state of building a Hackintosh is the amount of cargo cult advise out there.
Absolutely right. I think the issue behind this is that many people are repeating advice without understanding why it matters because it worked for them. So, you end up with people cargo-culting SSDT overlays, boot arguments, and other miscellaneous settings. This is somewhat inevitable with something technical, but it's exacerbated by a couple things:
1. many people in the Hackintosh community are very gatekeep-y. While others are very nice, I remember a few years ago being told to "go read the entire ACPI standard and the come back!" Reading about stuff is important, but it's pretty hard to figure out what the correct stuff is to read.
2. A lack of a centralized documentation repository (this is being fixed by OpenCore and others) to explain when different pieces of advice apply or don't. This is especially important on laptops where there may be some obscure quirk of one's particular hardware revision that is much easier found if everyone puts documentation in the same place.
I mostly gave up on hackintosh a few years ago because of all this, but have found it so much better and nicer as of late. Big thanks to the acidanthera guys who seem to be driving a lot of this change.
- improbable22 7y agoThese are true. But also, I think some of the weirdness is that a lot of people only do this once, struggle, and then move on. So the forums are full of people trying to find others with the same problem which none of them understand.
- vbezhenar 7y agoI think that the main issue is people who lack technical expertise and just want to install macOS but do not want to buy Apple hardware. They don't understand technical manuals and they'll spread gossip knowledge.