The Hackintosh Reborn with AI

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:53PM (#50387168)

> Macs run macOS.

They run other things, too. There's no valid technical reason it can't or shouldn't, and Apple deserves the scrutiny if they won't bring macOS up to parity with Linux. macOS is genuinely terrible, and 100% of the reason why Macs are a minority of the PC market share.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by carlosjobim on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:17AM (#50390498)

There are hundreds of millions of professionals in the world who need a computer that works for their work and daily life and aren't server admins or software developers. Please let us have the Macs in peace. We only have this option, while you have dozens of different PC makers for your Linux.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by diegolas on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:57AM (#50391314)

but nobody is trying to take that away from you? having a reliable linux distro for apple hardware couldn't affect you in any way

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by carlosjobim on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:33AM (#50392093)

"bring macOS up to parity with Linux" sounds like a direction of development which wouldn't be very desirable for people like me.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by diegolas on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:50AM (#50392273)

unless the OS was behind on features that wouldn't affect you if they were there

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:58PM (#50395845)

There is not a single Linux feature you have named that would impede your day-to-day workflow.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by carlosjobim on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:50PM (#50397448)

Linux users are like pickup truck drivers going to every motorcycle meeting to walk around complaining that motorcycles should be more like trucks. Different four strokes for different folks.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:35PM (#50407330)

Mac users are like motorcycle drivers petitioning their city to replace the highway lanes with bike lanes. You are a second-class citizen here, having forgotten what roads are actually used for.

I'm sorry that you're absorbed in your fantasy, but it's not my job to accommodate it.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by carlosjobim on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:28AM (#50413157)

I says thou pratest more than enough in this hackintosh thread.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:57AM (#50413432)

Motorcyclists are not drivers. Horses aren't cars.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:26AM (#50393487)

Terrible? I love it. Since 84.

They run other things, too

What other things outside of containers or iPad apps?

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:57PM (#50395827)

> Terrible? I love it.

You're part of a minority.

> What other things outside of containers or iPad apps?

Linux with fully native Vulkan drivers, for one.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:26AM (#50404828)

No offense, but you are the minority. Go buy a Framework, no? I get my Macs for macOS, not Linux. I've got other things for Linux, RPis, NUCs. If you got a Mac for Linux, that's on you, not Apple.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:37PM (#50407344)

I didn't make a mistake. Macs are a vast minority of the PC market share, and you belong to that minority if you use macOS.

Apple eventually stops OEM support for Macs, which means that support via an alternative operating system is a foremost imperative.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:06AM (#50426666)

So then don't get a Mac? There are plenty of other premium options similarly priced, if not more expensive, apples to apples, that will run Linux. The vast majority. I am not a macOS vs Windows vs Debian zealot, I have all of them and 5x more Linux thingies than Macs.

Sorry not sorry, I don't understand the sentiment, If you willingly spend $ on a Mac and then are salty that it doesn't cook rice, that's Apple's failing? Why Apple Watches don't run Wear OS? Why don't Android watches run Watch OS? Why doesn't my BEV run on corn?

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:27AM (#50405813)

They sell Macs with macOS. That's you pay for and that's the deal. You know that jumping in. You want to run another OS, that's on you, Apple owes you nothing.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:41PM (#50407387)

Apple owes me a usable experience once they stop supporting the hardware.

If you think that laptops deserve to become e-waste when the OEM says so, then your opinion can be safely discarded.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by stasomatic on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:47AM (#50413346)

your opinion can be safely discarded.

So can yours? It's only opinions, my guy. I still have my 2015 MPB Retina. The battery is busted, one speaker gave out. Still works though. Runs Proxmox. But, it's 11 years old and it's done its fair share of tours of duty. I got my $ worth.

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