[hippy dave]

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CAN CONFIRM THIS REALLY WORKS

 

[CoolMe]

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ah, cutting an apple with a mac, how ironic..
as for the winbloat loading screen, it's probably doing it on purpose

 

[SylverReZ]

Instructions unclear. Built a Hackintosh and it printed me a C&D from Apple.

 

[hippy dave]

Instructions unclear. Built a Hackintosh and it printed me a C&D from Apple.

Enjoy your hackintosh until Intel is planned obsolescenced out of existence

 

[tech3475]

Enjoy your hackintosh until Intel is planned obsolescenced out of existence

At some point I'm expecting an experimental project featuring a ported kernel and an Arm emulator.

It will be completely impractical and quickly dropped but makes it's way around news headlines for a day or two and occasionally get bought up on forums with someone asking 'whatever happened to this?'

As for old x86 macs, I managed to get W11 and Linux Mint on my parents old iMac, although it wasn't as easy as you'd think it would be.

 

[hippy dave]

As for old x86 macs, I managed to get W11 and Linux Mint on my parents old iMac, although it wasn't as easy as you'd think it would be.

I recently installed Lubuntu on my 15 year old MacBook Air, it's super responsive while running current Firefox, discord etc. The main obstacles I've faced so far are Firefox occasionally crashing and/or locking up the whole system, which turned out to be because the default swap file was only half a gig and occasional loss of network connection, which is apparently a known issue with Mac Broadcom wifi, and I've got a guide to fix it that I should try out soon.

 

[MPRTwice]

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The last option seems fun.

 

[tech3475]

I recently installed Lubuntu on my 15 year old MacBook Air, it's super responsive while running current Firefox, discord etc. The main obstacles I've faced so far are Firefox occasionally crashing and/or locking up the whole system, which turned out to be because the default swap file was only half a gig and occasional loss of network connection, which is apparently a known issue with Mac Broadcom wifi, and I've got a guide to fix it that I should try out soon.

Single booting is relatively easy, trying to multi-boot with Windows and Mint was a PITA e.g. the partition table would appear messed up in the Windows installer and it took some messing around to find a way that worked.

Trying to get the magic mouse + Apple KB working in Mint was a pain, had to manually enable a BT discovery setting in the terminal.

For the record I used Mint because it had a relatively long release cycle, I had at one point got Fedora working but I'm hesitant to trust twice year major system upgrades with this relatively fragile setup.

 

[SylverReZ]

As for old x86 macs, I managed to get W11 and Linux Mint on my parents old iMac, although it wasn't as easy as you'd think it would be.

I could never even get my old Dell to use modified builds of OS X for x86 machines as it kept giving me kernel errors unless I'm doing something wrong. Tried a lot of different ISOs (making coasters along the way), never could even do it, and maybe for good reasons.

Never owned a Mac product for 15-years which was the iMac G3 and its elegant translucent blue casing. The majority of my life has to be Windows (first place) and Linux (second).

 

[tech3475]

I could never even get my old Dell to use modified builds of OS X for x86 machines as it kept giving me kernel errors unless I'm doing something wrong. Tried a lot of different ISOs (making coasters along the way), never could even do it, and maybe for good reasons.

Never owned a Mac product for 15-years which was the iMac G3 and its elegant translucent blue casing. The majority of my life has to be Windows (first place) and Linux (second).

Hackintosh's can be a PITA unless you have just the right hardware.

 

[AncientBoi]

You had 2 similar ways to chose from on here.

and ouch!