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The bootloader development in Hackintosh scene never cease to amaze me. I remember the lead developer of Clover bootloader[1] Slice, still developing it on his

The bootloader development in Hackintosh scene never cease to amaze me. I remember the lead developer of Clover bootloader[1] Slice, still developing it on his old Dell with 32 bit Snowleopard when it was being used for Mountain Lion and later. But the interest in Hackintosh seems to be slowing down[2]? , it's not like Macs have become affordable, if anything Mac Pro is prohibitively expensive and hackintosh generally made more sense to those struck with underpowered Mac Pro. Most of all, what will happen to the Hackintosh scene due to Apple Silicon? Will the community take up the challenge and make macOS work on Raspberry Pi 10(I understand that Apple Silicon is not vanilla ARM spec) or fizzle out? [1]https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ [2]https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Hackintosh https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Hackinto...

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
I can't explain those Google Trends and I won't blame you for trusting them over the feelings of some guy on the internet, but it doesn't match my own experience at all. On the contrary, Hackintosh feels like it has become bigger and more mainstream, relatively speaking. (Mind, I still think the scene's days are numbered due to Apple Silicon.)
- tinco 6y ago
  Maybe running Hackintosh has become so easy you need less Google queries to achieve it!
tinco 6y ago
I think the answer is simply that Ubuntu has become good enough. The whole point of running MacOS was to get POSIX compliance with a polished GUI. No Windows, pretty terminals smooth fonts good UX. Now MacOS has no edge over Ubuntu in any sense. Ubuntu runs Docker natively and Cuda. It has an insanely user friendly installer, it runs on a wide range of hardware with no issues and its default GUI is great.
- kochthesecond 6y ago
  Yeah, linux now actually works with wifi, sleep mode, decent fonts, native docker, a good package manager and a variety of games, all at the same time!
kochthesecond 6y ago
For my own personal reason: I lost interest due to countless problems, the hours of endless tinkering and simply that macOS is not that far ahead anymore. It has some nice things, but ubuntu is very stable now a days. Sleep works, wifi works, and even games are decent on a powerful linux box. Apple dropped the ball on macOS and the hardware remained very expensive.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

I can't explain those Google Trends and I won't blame you for trusting them over the feelings of some guy on the internet, but it doesn't match my own experience at all. On the contrary, Hackintosh feels like it has become bigger and more mainstream, relatively speaking. (Mind, I still think the scene's days are numbered due to Apple Silicon.)

tinco 6y ago
Maybe running Hackintosh has become so easy you need less Google queries to achieve it!

tinco 6y ago

I think the answer is simply that Ubuntu has become good enough. The whole point of running MacOS was to get POSIX compliance with a polished GUI. No Windows, pretty terminals smooth fonts good UX. Now MacOS has no edge over Ubuntu in any sense. Ubuntu runs Docker natively and Cuda. It has an insanely user friendly installer, it runs on a wide range of hardware with no issues and its default GUI is great.

kochthesecond 6y ago
Yeah, linux now actually works with wifi, sleep mode, decent fonts, native docker, a good package manager and a variety of games, all at the same time!

kochthesecond 6y ago

For my own personal reason: I lost interest due to countless problems, the hours of endless tinkering and simply that macOS is not that far ahead anymore. It has some nice things, but ubuntu is very stable now a days. Sleep works, wifi works, and even games are decent on a powerful linux box. Apple dropped the ball on macOS and the hardware remained very expensive.