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I've been thinking about making a Hackintosh, yes, but in the end I don't want to have a setup that I constantly have to spend time on just to keep it alive. I'm not sure if things have gotten better since I last looked into it, but it seems to me you'll have to live with a degraded feature set and constant tweaking.

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    > the end I don't want to have 
    > a setup that I constantly 
    > have to spend time on just 
    > to keep it alive

It's admittedly been about 5 years since I seriously tried to use Linux on the desktop, and a little longer than that since Windows, but the biggest concession I've made to keeping my OS X machine alive is a `bluetooth_reload` alias. Is XF86Config still a thing? How about audio support?

XF86Config is now Xorg and is only used in the rare cases (dealing with proprietary drivers or strange configurations, mostly) where you want to override the defaults. Most people don't have an Xorg.conf file anymore.

For all that people complain about pulseaudio, it's been working pretty well for me for the last 5 years or so.

I'll admit I'm a bit of an outlier, though: I run xubuntu as my base system but i3 as my main window manager. I'm sooo much more productive on it than anything else I've ever used - it's amazing how much time I used to spend adjusting window sizes.

I was talking about Hackintosh actually, but it's true: I have the same reservations about the Linux desktop.

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