I also don't get it.
Anyone doing this should support any of OEMs selling the BSD or Linux based hardware instead, like System76, Tuxedo, Dell, Asus.
Either one buys into the full Apple experience, or not.
Anyone doing this should support any of OEMs selling the BSD or Linux based hardware instead, like System76, Tuxedo, Dell, Asus.
Either one buys into the full Apple experience, or not.
Speaking from experience here -- if the price of a Mac is your barrier, forego the Hackintosh and buy a used Mac.
There is no Mac that supports my needs, used or new.
I'm genuinely curious -- what needs do you have that a used Mac would not support?
That being the case, better contribute to BSD and Linux OEMs.
Oh, for the "Apple experience"? Please.
The last two Apple experiences I had involved them wanting to charge me $900 to repair a charging circuit in an otherwise perfectly functioning MacBook, and another where they repeatedly denied me warranty service on a maxed out MBP which could repeatedly be made to crash, oftentimes multiple times a day (due to what Apple begrudgingly admitted nearly six months later was in fact a design issue).
To be clear I'm perfectly happy with Apple hardware and software and realize that my experiences are outliers. But "because I'm a cheapskate" isn't really a valid argument here.
That's backwards. Rich megacorps are the ones that should be pressured to change their behavior, not individuals.
Plus the full Apple experience is just about getting your money, it's not actually better than the full Linux experience or the full Windows experience.
But it is?
- Can I view my iMessage texts / make and receive calls using FaceTime on Windows/Linux? No? There you go, a feature I'd miss on day 1.
- Can I run the Affinity suite on either of those? Nope. For that matter, you still can't use Adobe products on Linux, can you?
- Can I develop for iOS/macOS? Nope.
- Is there a consistent UI for native applications on Linux yet? Nope. For that matter, is Gnome still the bare bones GUI of choice for the most widely used distros?
- Do either of those two platforms integrate nicely with the rest of my Apple devices? Nope.
- Is the X Window System still a thing? How about Wayland, is it ready yet for a retina grade multi monitor setup? Am I able to take screenshots now, for the love of all that's holy? Let me guess, probably not.
- Is Windows still the insane mess that contains Win95/2000/XP UI elements?
- Is Windows still the telemetry infested product it was a few years ago?
I could go on, and on, and on, frankly, but what would the point be? I have slightly different preferences than you have, and that's totally fine. I'm sure you get by well with Linux/Windows, just as I get by well with using macOS.
Of course Apple created macOS and Mac hardware to make money! I assume correctly that Microsoft didn't create Windows to lose money on it, did they?
What do you have in defence of the other half other than empty platitudes about "buy in", which is of course somehow different from the "lock in" Apple sheep do?
For me I like the hardware of Mac but hate the software (macOs) as it assumes the users is a dummy, it is particularly hostile to power users.
Heck, even my wife (which is not a power user) thinks that macOs on her MacBook Air is too limiting and tries to hide "too complicated stuff" from the user, and considers getting a Windows laptop after using Air for 6 years. The only benefit of macOs from her perspective is integration with iPhone and airpods.
Similar feelings from my coworkers who choose MacBook over Lenovo at my work (particuarly using fullscreen on 2 monitors is a PITA).
Some of the issues that my wife had (ordinary user):
- directory structure in Finder is strange, you don't know where your Documents is located
- photos after transferring from iPhone using the default app land in some strange format, should would expect to have jpeg/heic/mov files, but what she sees is a binary DB file (how to send photos to relatives from e.g. gmail, when you can't select it from the filesystem?)
- closing apps - when I click on the red button I expect the app to close, not just one of the windows, so the only way on macOs is to go to app menu and click Exit (too many clicks and needs scanning for a text), while I think most would prefer the other way around (my wife does)
And from myself: Why the default unix tools are in ancient versions? One has to install brew to do anything non-trivial in Terminal.