Comment by bigyabai
5 hours ago
Have you ever tried daily-driving a Hackintosh? It's nothing like using a Mac, or even a Windows/Linux machine for that matter.
I dual-booted Mojave on 2 Wintel machines back during the Clover bootloader days, I could only tolerate it for ~2 weeks before giving up. Spoofing OEM Apple hardware is basically impossible, even with configuration-matched CPUs your motherboard will still mismatch the ACPI overrides that macOS expects. Any variety of modern GPU is basically forfeit, hardware acceleration is flaky, Metal is inhumane (with or without Hackintosh), CUDA is unsupported, Vulkan is MIA, filesystem support is a joke, and OTA updates have to be disabled or else your system volume will overwrite the partition table and erase everything that's installed. Reinstalling from scratch can take multiple days if you don't back up your EFI configuration, so you really want to avoid bricking your install while you tweak the configs to stop being broken.
Even as a developer, using a Hackintosh was a waste of my time back in 2018 when "everything was supported". In 2026, I cannot comprehend a single objective reason why you would use an x86 Hackintosh instead of a better-supported and more fully-featured Linux or WSL installation. x86_64-apple-darwin is a partially depreciated target triple that's not suitable for any macOS or Linux development work, and for prosumers the architecture is already unsupported by many professional apps. Hackintosh is a museum piece now, even OpenCore can't save it: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2025/07/16/open-core-is-dead...
System updates not working or being complicated is a given.
About the other things you mention: What do they mean in practice? That video games don't work, or that photo/video editing doesn't work?
How does filesystem support differ from MacOS installed on a Mac?
From what I understand your comment is only from the perspective of a developer? But there are many other uses for a computer.
You didn't answer my question - have you tried making a Hackintosh yourself?
I'm writing from the perspective of a tech-savvy Windows user that had triple-boot working on my desktop and laptop. I'm willing to deal with some system configuration, but it took upwards of 12 hours to configure my EFI for each unique device I wanted to Hackintosh. And it still didn't fix my iCloud or get my laptop trackpad working.
That is an entirely unacceptable process for someone who isn't a developer. I cannot recommend anyone use an OS that blocks OTA security updates, let alone people that can't/don't/won't program.
No I haven't, if I had I wouldn't have needed to make follow up questions.
But if you follow a guide from somebody who has hackintoshed the exact same device you have, then it shouldn't take that long, or am I missing something? The posts in the hackintosh subreddit generally details what will work and not work.