| I've had a Hacktintosh from 2016 until end of last year. Initially I just did it because I assembled a pretty good PC for gaming, but for work stuff I liked macOS more, so dual booting was a nice option! This was also before the M-series chips, where you had to pay a hefty premium to get better Intel processors, and also (imo) Apple increasingly struggled with the heat produced by the chips. Things got a bit more annoying a couple years later, when Apple had their fallout with NVIDIA and would not sign their drivers anymore, which meant I had to buy a cheap AMD GPU to use for macOS. End of last year I changed a couple of components, including the GPU, in my PC and then decided the hassle with two GPUs was just not worth it for me anymore; so I bought a Mac studio. I gained some and lost some with this transition. I'm no longer worried about major software updates, it's nice that I don't have to deal with complicated config files for the bootloader every once in a while, and of course there were some minor bugs too. But I kind of miss the convenience of dual booting, with shared IO and drives. Now I need a network switch, USB-hub and have to toggle between monitor inputs. So yeah! Wasn't all bad! Anyways, I think it's very cool that there is this community of people that write and maintain special bootloaders and drivers to make it all possible! |
It was nice in paper, but really needed to be undervolted and under locked... Not an easy task in a mbp. I couldn't get IT approval to buy a software to do it and didn't have local permission to load a self signed driver to do it either.
It was unusable for such a beast of a machine on paper.