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This is a very fair question. For me, the reason for a hackintosh is just that I am tired of all the cables and having to swap between the two setups (like hav

This is a very fair question. For me, the reason for a hackintosh is just that I am tired of all the cables and having to swap between the two setups (like having one monitor for working, and one for gaming) while utilizing the performance when working. I also want to utilize my iCloud Drive symlinking hacks to sync files / dotfiles between systems. My gaming rig is currently running i4790k with a fairly decent motherboard (Asus Maximus VII) that I bought used for $200 a two years ago. It still performs like butter as long as you have a decent gpu connected to it. I seriously recommend this setup if you want to save some dough (or maybe the new Ryzen CPUs are better now tbh). A sidenote regarding monitors: These are some exciting times to be working from home combined with having an interest for gaming due to the new monitors coming out, working for both. I am currently thinking about the LG 38WN95C-W. Really expensive, but if you use it 8 hours a day for 5 years, I think I calculated it to be like 50 cent a day. :) edit: Oh, and yes, as someone below mentioned, I love macOS and a lot of the things I work on require me to work on it.

jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
You can share a monitor between two computers. What do you on macOS that isn't available on Windows? Really curious.
- jonfw 6y ago
  Not OP- but I do a lot of work with containers and orchestration- and being on a Unix filesystem with native POSIX shell is very helpful
  - GordonS 6y ago
    Docker on MacOS is notoriously slow though - I use it myself sometimes, and it's never a good experience.
    - wadkar 6y ago
      I’m not sure if it’s true anymore. I experienced good performance when they switched to using xhyve/bhyve (basically use docker for mac). Can you shade more light on your experience? When was this? What circumstances? Which kind of apps?
      - GordonS 6y ago
        Using Docker Desktop (which I believe runs Docker in a Linux VM - basically a friendly version of when when it was Docker Machine), with different containers - RabbitMQ, EMQ, Postgres, Minio, lots of our own images. I haven't used it for perhaps 6-9 months, but it was never fun - would grind the whole macbook to a painful pace. If there's some kind of alternative for MacOS now, I'm keen to know more.
  - speedgoose 6y ago
    WSL2 on Windows is quite nice now.
- ajconway 6y ago
  Usually it’s either iOS/macOS development or media editing.
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  It's not always about what you do, but what tools you use to do it. I don't want my fundamental tool to be windows because I don't enjoy using it for hundreds of reasons - there's really not much more to it for me.
0x10c0fe11ce 6y ago
Sounds like you should get a monitor with built in support for KVM. I can do that on my Benq PD2700U.
- reimertz 6y ago
  The problem is that there hasn’t been one monitor that support 144hz for gaming while maintaining accurate colors and resolution for working. This is the first year that kind of monitor exists. :)
- m463 6y ago
  I've noticed sharing one monitor with multiple computers has always been a pain point... over most of my life. By the way, I've always found having a dumb usb switch (for each device) and a dumb video switch to be the best way to eliminate incompatibilities. But everyone wants to get fancy and "smarten up" their kvm to use hotkeys and it screws with latency or keyboard state or just adds weirdness. So I think the smartest place to put kvm functionality is probably at the keyboard, in the mouse and the monitor. Or we should have an open kvm solution
distances 6y ago
> I am currently thinking about the LG 38WN95C-W. Really expensive, but if you use it 8 hours a day for 5 years, I think I calculated it to be like 50 cent a day. :) Exactly the same monitor I'm planning to get to my home office/games computer combo. In fact, despite the price, this seems to be the most awaited monitor of all year -- finally something that combines great performance, adult design without garish gaming elements, and office style needs (looking at TB3/USB-C with PD&DP).
nkrisc 6y ago
I have a similar set up. I got some Thunderbolt dock for the mac and a USB input switcher that I connect all my peripherals to and can press a button to switch between the Macbook dock and my Windows PC. The only unoptimized part is I just use the DisplayPort input on my monitor for the PC and the HDMI input to the Macbook dock. So to swap all I have to do is press the button on the USB switcher and then change my monitor's input setting. Not quite one click switching, which could be done, but it's two clicks and cheaper than most KVM switches I've seen.
- wadkar 6y ago
  That sounds great! Can you please share some good models/links for the usb switcher thingy? (I had no idea such a thing existed in the first place!)
  - nkrisc 6y ago
    Here's the one I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07T89NTXK https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07T89NTXK I can't vouch that it's not a keylogger given it sounds like some brand you'd find on AliExpress, but it does what it's supposed to do. Since it's plugged into my desktop and I leave that running it's powered by that, but it also has a micro USB input for external power.

jfkebwjsbx 6y ago

You can share a monitor between two computers. What do you on macOS that isn't available on Windows? Really curious.

jonfw 6y ago
Not OP- but I do a lot of work with containers and orchestration- and being on a Unix filesystem with native POSIX shell is very helpful
- GordonS 6y ago
  Docker on MacOS is notoriously slow though - I use it myself sometimes, and it's never a good experience.
  - wadkar 6y ago
    I’m not sure if it’s true anymore. I experienced good performance when they switched to using xhyve/bhyve (basically use docker for mac). Can you shade more light on your experience? When was this? What circumstances? Which kind of apps?
    - GordonS 6y ago
      Using Docker Desktop (which I believe runs Docker in a Linux VM - basically a friendly version of when when it was Docker Machine), with different containers - RabbitMQ, EMQ, Postgres, Minio, lots of our own images. I haven't used it for perhaps 6-9 months, but it was never fun - would grind the whole macbook to a painful pace. If there's some kind of alternative for MacOS now, I'm keen to know more.
- speedgoose 6y ago
  WSL2 on Windows is quite nice now.
ajconway 6y ago
Usually it’s either iOS/macOS development or media editing.
breakfastduck 6y ago
It's not always about what you do, but what tools you use to do it. I don't want my fundamental tool to be windows because I don't enjoy using it for hundreds of reasons - there's really not much more to it for me.

0x10c0fe11ce 6y ago

Sounds like you should get a monitor with built in support for KVM. I can do that on my Benq PD2700U.

reimertz 6y ago
The problem is that there hasn’t been one monitor that support 144hz for gaming while maintaining accurate colors and resolution for working. This is the first year that kind of monitor exists. :)
m463 6y ago
I've noticed sharing one monitor with multiple computers has always been a pain point... over most of my life. By the way, I've always found having a dumb usb switch (for each device) and a dumb video switch to be the best way to eliminate incompatibilities. But everyone wants to get fancy and "smarten up" their kvm to use hotkeys and it screws with latency or keyboard state or just adds weirdness. So I think the smartest place to put kvm functionality is probably at the keyboard, in the mouse and the monitor. Or we should have an open kvm solution

distances 6y ago

> I am currently thinking about the LG 38WN95C-W. Really expensive, but if you use it 8 hours a day for 5 years, I think I calculated it to be like 50 cent a day. :) Exactly the same monitor I'm planning to get to my home office/games computer combo. In fact, despite the price, this seems to be the most awaited monitor of all year -- finally something that combines great performance, adult design without garish gaming elements, and office style needs (looking at TB3/USB-C with PD&DP).

nkrisc 6y ago

I have a similar set up. I got some Thunderbolt dock for the mac and a USB input switcher that I connect all my peripherals to and can press a button to switch between the Macbook dock and my Windows PC. The only unoptimized part is I just use the DisplayPort input on my monitor for the PC and the HDMI input to the Macbook dock. So to swap all I have to do is press the button on the USB switcher and then change my monitor's input setting. Not quite one click switching, which could be done, but it's two clicks and cheaper than most KVM switches I've seen.

wadkar 6y ago
That sounds great! Can you please share some good models/links for the usb switcher thingy? (I had no idea such a thing existed in the first place!)
- nkrisc 6y ago
  Here's the one I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07T89NTXK https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07T89NTXK I can't vouch that it's not a keylogger given it sounds like some brand you'd find on AliExpress, but it does what it's supposed to do. Since it's plugged into my desktop and I leave that running it's powered by that, but it also has a micro USB input for external power.