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Unless you build a Hackintosh[1]. I'm typing on mine right now. I jumped from Windows 7 because I use Windows 8.1 at work and hate it. I've totally loving th

by e40 13y ago

Unless you build a Hackintosh[1]. I'm typing on mine right now. I jumped from Windows 7 because I use Windows 8.1 at work and hate it. I've totally loving the Hackintosh. I do lots of scripting, and while I love the crap outta the Cygwin people (heroes, all of them), it is soooo nice having a real unix under me, albeit a slightly weird one. Yeah, if it weren't for Lightroom, I'd be on Linux. I have a pretty beefy machine, but I spent less than $2000. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/ http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/

Karunamon 13y ago
I'm in the same boat myself. Right now I'm strongly considering picking up a mac mini and a nice displayport KVM switch. Last upgrade to Mavericks hosed my mackintosh install (panic on boot) and no amount of re-running the tools seems to fix it. There's also the small miscellaneous problems you have to deal with. I keep coming back to Windows for the games. Once Steam's streaming functionality is nailed down, I figure I'll build a nice beefy shoebox machine, throw Windows on it, put that box in the corner, and use the mini or a laptop as my main machine.
- e40 13y ago
  What hardware do you have? I was very careful to use the hardware with for the path of least resistance. The installation took an hour. Then, I spent the next 3 days getting the RAID 1 for the boot drive working.
  - Karunamon 13y ago
    Gigabyte board, Gigabyte AMD video, Intel i5. I actually specced this machine out three-ish years ago with the express intent of hackintoshing. Except for some early issues with dual monitors back in the Snow Leopard/Lion days (we're talking hex editing the ATI driver kext), it has worked really well.
    - e40 13y ago
      Bummer. Well, if you haven't asked for help over at the tonymacx86.com forums yet, I would. Maybe someone there can spot the problem.
      - Karunamon 13y ago
        I'm actually banned from there after calling Tony out for DRM. Really. http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-tonymacx86/ http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-ton... http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-tonymacx86-hypocrisy-becomes-a-story/ http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-t...
kayoone 13y ago
Ive been running a Hackintosh for years without any serious issues but i am growing worried about apples direction in many things and the platform lock-in as a whole. I also hate to adapt to different keyboard layouts when going back to Windows for gaming. Thats why i am toying with going for a Win 8.1/Linux Mint combination again, maybe even Windows only would suffice as vagrant took a lot of pain out of development on windows.

by e40 13y ago

Karunamon 13y ago

I'm in the same boat myself. Right now I'm strongly considering picking up a mac mini and a nice displayport KVM switch. Last upgrade to Mavericks hosed my mackintosh install (panic on boot) and no amount of re-running the tools seems to fix it. There's also the small miscellaneous problems you have to deal with. I keep coming back to Windows for the games. Once Steam's streaming functionality is nailed down, I figure I'll build a nice beefy shoebox machine, throw Windows on it, put that box in the corner, and use the mini or a laptop as my main machine.

e40 13y ago
What hardware do you have? I was very careful to use the hardware with for the path of least resistance. The installation took an hour. Then, I spent the next 3 days getting the RAID 1 for the boot drive working.
- Karunamon 13y ago
  Gigabyte board, Gigabyte AMD video, Intel i5. I actually specced this machine out three-ish years ago with the express intent of hackintoshing. Except for some early issues with dual monitors back in the Snow Leopard/Lion days (we're talking hex editing the ATI driver kext), it has worked really well.
  - e40 13y ago
    Bummer. Well, if you haven't asked for help over at the tonymacx86.com forums yet, I would. Maybe someone there can spot the problem.
    - Karunamon 13y ago
      I'm actually banned from there after calling Tony out for DRM. Really. http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-tonymacx86/ http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-ton... http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-tonymacx86-hypocrisy-becomes-a-story/ http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-t...

kayoone 13y ago

Ive been running a Hackintosh for years without any serious issues but i am growing worried about apples direction in many things and the platform lock-in as a whole. I also hate to adapt to different keyboard layouts when going back to Windows for gaming. Thats why i am toying with going for a Win 8.1/Linux Mint combination again, maybe even Windows only would suffice as vagrant took a lot of pain out of development on windows.