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by tokenizerrr 2877 days ago
I really don't get why I would want to run an operating system where the vendor refuses to support my hardware.

Also, the font color on this blog is absolutely horrible.

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> the font color on this blog is absolutely horrible.

Yeah, I've noticed more sites do this. Super annoying. I made this bookmark for those cases:

    javascript:(()=>{document.querySelectorAll("p,div,article,section,ul,ol,li").forEach(x=>{x.style["color"]="black";});})();
Thank you for that. Nothing worse than shitty web design.
I think this is the real reason not to build a hackintosh.

I don’t find the “theft” argument compelling, because Apple doesn’t even sell OSX anymore. They’re a hardware company.

There’s not really a vendor here since macOS is free. Linux isn’t exactly free from the need to choose well-supported hardware either, particularly of you need to run a more stable distro
macOS isn’t really free. It just “comes with” the hardware you just bought. You’re not supposed to download the OS unless you have qualifying hardware. A hackintosh rig does not qualify.