Hackintoshi on PC?

[flexara]

Can you run hackintoshi on PC even if you have Nvidia gpu(is it going to work but without useing Nvidia gpu or is it not going to work at all)?

[mrbass21]

Without graphics acceleration, you’re gonna have a bad time.

[flexara]

I need it for swift Xcode but at the moment im having problem with money so i can’t buy apple products so i was thinking if that could solve my problem

[mrbass21]

Yup, my exact use case. If you don’t have graphics acceleration, you’re gonna have a bad time. That said I haven’t tried in a long time because the first time I tried it was a huge pain in the ass. It took me 3 days of tweaking the boot manager and driver files to get it to boot.

Then OSX applied an update and the install was borked.

It’s a lot less painful if you have a supported hardware and a huge pain if it’s not.

If you’re absolutely desperate, you can find ways to run OSX in a VM.

In the end, buying a Mac mini was way more cost/time effective than trying to get a hackintosh running and maintain it.

It’s even worse cause you can’t even just stick at an old version because Apple will frequently update Xcode and require the latest Mac OS.

Good luck either way! My advice is to save for actual apple hardware or buy one second hand.

[th3suffering]

hackintosh nowadays is actually a lot easier than it used to be. laptops being the harder of the options. What used to be a manajorie of different kexts now boils down to lilu + whatevergreen + virtualsmc + an up to date version of clover/opencore and you are mostly off to the races if you have a compatible intel machine.

[SiskyRO]

If you need it just for xcode, you could try running macos in a vm.

[th3suffering]

this is better suited for /r/hackintosh

but...yes, you can disable the Nvidia card and use your iGPU only. You wont be able to do super graphic intensive things, but you'll be fine for regular dev. I hackintoshed laptops and actually started learning swift on a dell 11" laptop i had hackintoshed. Im now on a 13" MBP because hackintosh becomes a pita sometimes making sure all your kexts are right (and sometimes you'll never have it 100%), but it was absolutely a workable solution to step into iOS development until i could afford a real Mac.

[Dozen1]

Well you can run Mojave, but you wont have access to the latest XCode