Apple won't like this... - Run MacOS on ANY PC
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Channel: Linus Tech Tips
Views: 5,533,917
Rating: 4.8628869 out of 5
Keywords: hackintosh, diy, do it yourself, mac, macintosh, computer, pc, nvidia, amd, windows, linux
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Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)
Published: Thu Apr 18 2019
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I have done this in the past, and it was awesome! After I installed the Nvidia driver on my Mac VM, it felt like a real machine! I was thinking of buying a thunderbolt eGPU enclosure to try passthrough on my Dell laptop in the future.
My only criticism with this video is using the Hackintosh-KVM repo instead of OSX-KVM (for the VM config files).
EDIT: Now that I think about it, The NVIDIA part was also bad. They should have done research on the current situation.
Obviously there will be a performance hit, but you would be surprised at the performance gap with a well set up VM. It's not that bad. The problem with virtual machines is mostly the GPU, not the CPU.
(To play devils advocate) even if you have a supported Intel processor, there are still other issue that can arise from trying to set up a hackintosh. Setting it up with QEMU (or even VMWare) allows for consistency. With that being said, I do agree that this setup is overkill for someone who just want to set up a hackintosh desktop.
God this video is going to give us such a fucking headache on this subreddit, can't wait for all the spam posts on "Why won't MacOS run?!? HELP IMIDEATLY!!!". The video was well made but the content within was far from it, specifically it doesn't really go in-depth into compatible hardware, even the title is extreme misleading as we don't have any support for Turing based GPUs and that Mojave requires advance AES instruction sets to operate(and you can't just emulate that). His video didn't even mention the fact that Maxwell, Pascal and Turing GPUs don't work in Mojave, they didn't even mention why they're running High Sierra over Mojave to start with. Honestly I'm just disappointed in the quality, especially near the end about running Titan Xp's even though an Rx560 will outperform it in most applications now days thanks to the poor implementation of Metal with the web drivers. But it is a Gaming/PC hardware focused channel so I don't really know what I expected
It's not complicated at all and you get the same performance.
Source: I've been running Hackintosh in a virtual machine (QEMU/KVM) with RX 580 passed through for a few months now.
Ugh this shit kills me. LTT literally hasn't done a video on hackintoshing since Mavericks but now suddenly they're experts on how native hackintoshing totally sucks? Also, not having to worry about hardware not being supported? Have fun with your Titan in Mojave.
Over the years of watching his videos and going from admiring him, all the way down to getting tired of his crap, I came to realise that Linus is an entertainer, NOT a tech expert.
I used to like his earlier videos for their down to the Earth honesty, and informative content, but in the past few years him, his crew, and his videos have became increasingly sensationalised with little to no substance.
No, Linus, it’s not that hard. Thanks to the amazing community and kext/Clover developers who work hard to simplify the process and make hackintoshing a reality to even those who had no in-depth knowledge of how a PC works before trying to put a hackintosh together.
“I’m thankful it’s running AT ALL”
Uhm. That says more about Linus than it does about the process of installing macOS on a PC...
They’ve done hackintosh videos before, should do a new one with clover showing how easy it actually can be.
I actually have a very similar setup, it works well. I think you lose about 5-10% today performance, but it's pretty close to bare metal. I use Ryzen and rx 580
The importance of this video is demonstrating that macOS can be properly virtualized and it is a third, legitimate way of running it besides native hardware and hackintoshing.
Still, the pains of real hackintoshing are still present, they just become config nightmares.
Actually it can give like 95% of an hackintosh with the same specs, because its running Linux which is lights right and qemu is very powerful so you basically share the full CPU and have full GPU acceleration, only bad thing is that you need a second gpu