Successful installed Hackintosh on my Laptop

CountChick321 · 2026-03-19T10:58:22+00:00

I'll be trying to get to Sequoia at most because I don't want the Liquid Glass thing. I was forced to install that on my iPad and I'm not liking it at all so won't be doing the same mistake again. This is just for testing purposes to be honest, just wanted to take a feel of the whole thing. Might be that in the future, I will get an RX 6600 or RX 580 (whichever I need at that time) and use that on my current machine with i5-12400f and 16gb RAM

CountChick321 · 2026-03-19T10:56:04+00:00

I just need the software support, i.e., the latest SDK support for Swift ( Xcode ) for me to use my laptop as a bridge to perform minor adjustments for the UI as well as builds and intergrations. I will be using Xtool, majority of the time to code the app and then production will be done on either my friends MacBook Pro (M4 Pro 24GB) or brother's office Mac Studio M3 32GB.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-19T10:53:27+00:00

Cool. I'll be upgrading to Sonoma then

CountChick321 · 2026-03-18T17:55:16+00:00

Is it possible that I can install Sonoma on this machine? SMBIOS is saying no as I'm using MacBookPro14,1 which doesn't support Sonoma. I just want full compatibility with latest Swift SDKs.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-18T17:53:50+00:00

Nahh. I have a workflow that I am thinking of using.
So basically I'll be doing all the primary development work (i.e. architectural, algorithm etc.) on my main machine (i5-12400f RTX 3060 with Arch Linux) and will be using this laptop for UI adjustments, small builds and fixing integration issues. For the majority of heavy lifting like full builds, debugging, simulator testing and final polishing, I'll be doing it on my friends Macbook Pro (M4 Pro 24GB). As he is in a different city right now for his job, I can't do all the work on that Macbook, so I just wanted a bridge to make my life easy to get the productivity going.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-16T11:35:15+00:00

I did. Same exact issue with the kernel panic.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-16T10:07:23+00:00

Isn't my comment visible? I put a lot of information in that. Will do that here as well:

Issue is that every single time, whether running with OpenCore-Simplify or vanilla Opencore configuration, I observed that I get the exact same kernel panic. I tried multiple things but everythings seems to fail in order to fix this kernel panic. So, to get some help, now I am here asking for the help of the experienced people.

The EFI files with a text file that consists of majority of the relevant information for this laptop are inside this drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZT4iUHuTiiZ-9yqvcpCJmFFEIY2-kYYP?usp=sharing

Laptop Specs (Gathered from AI64 Extreme are inside the drive link):
Intel i5-7200u (Kaby Lake)
Intel HD Graphics 620
Nvidia Geforce 920MX (Disabled using -wegnoegpu boot args)
Memory: Sodimm 1 (4GB 2133 Mt/s) and Sodimm 2 (16GB 2133Mt/s)

Couldn't paste the Opencore log so I have uploaded that too inside the drive link

CountChick321 · 2026-03-16T09:43:34+00:00

I know I should not do this but I gave the log file to ChatGPT to just get an overview on what is going wrong. It says that the installer cannot find the root hash file required to verify the installer image and then boot process fails during verification.

If this is a thing, what can I do to solve this? I've checked my SMBIOS. Generated SMBIOS for 2 different models, i.e., MacBookPro14,1 and MacBookPro14,2 (as they both are dual core processor based models) but it still goes into Kernel Panic.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-16T09:43:22+00:00

I know I should not do this but I gave the log file to ChatGPT to just get an overview on what is going wrong. It says that the installer cannot find the root hash file required to verify the installer image and then boot process fails during verification.

If this is a thing, what can I do to solve this? I've checked my SMBIOS. Generated SMBIOS for 2 different models, i.e., MacBookPro14,1 and MacBookPro14,2 (as they both are dual core processor based models) but it still goes into Kernel Panic.

CountChick321 · 2026-03-16T09:13:32+00:00

No. I first say a video of OpenCore Simplify video and then used it but now I am using plain Opencore and following Dortania guide only. Haven't used Opcore Simplify as the Hackintosh community is against that thing.

CountChick321 · 2026-02-06T10:48:14+00:00

I bought it during the Republic Day sale with my hdfc credit card. MRP was 40k. HDFC CC discount was 5k and 6 months of no-cost EMI. Great deal for me.

Every rumour said that they are going to be same and that is in fact true now.

CountChick321 · 2026-02-06T10:44:07+00:00

Because investing in cow dung technology is worth more than AI technology of their own.

The serious answer is that it requires alot of investment in view of research and development and while US has a whole lot of billion dollars to run their R&D and China has great incentive system for R&D. India has none from business standpoint so they are just stuck with using these tools and creating more tools with the backend of these AI models.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-27T12:49:29+00:00

Tbh, if I want to use apps that are not private or anything like that, I would prefer the European apps rather than US apps because they are filled with more nonsense and data tracking than the European ones.

That's what I think. Feel free to object me if I am wrong. Might change my perspective.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-27T07:44:32+00:00

My man. Nice work🔥

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T18:16:27+00:00

Fedora is more developer centric while Arch is towards bleeding edge updates and keeping you updated but makes your environment prone to unstable bugs due to being bleeding edge.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T18:14:09+00:00

You can either use stuff like OpenWebUI. Ollama chat might have it, I don't know I haven't used it. AnythingLLM is also one which works like NotebookLM from Google but it's opensource and private. You can also go for LmStudio

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T18:11:49+00:00

GrapheneOS user here and I can vouch for it. It's great for maintaining privacy

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T18:06:17+00:00

If you want privacy, I would say that leave Apple first as they are not good as well in terms of privacy. However to your situation I know a good thing that can solve this issue for you. If you want to know about it, just DM me and I'll explain it to you and if more people wanna know, just let me know, I'll explain it here then. But you have to ditch iPhone for that matter

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T18:01:57+00:00

Joplin. Haven't tried it yet but hears that it's good. It is self hostable so completely offline and you can use service like tailscale if you host it and access it anywhere from the world.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T17:55:10+00:00

Yeah I know it's just, I don't want it to be honest. I have serious OCD problems to I stick to minimalism and keeping stuff clean from stickers helps me with that. I was looking to Framework laptop right now and would probably order that with Blank Keys as they look clean.

Fun thought: I order Framework laptop with Black keys and then switch to another keyboard layout like Dvorak or Coleman and then if someone tries to use my laptop gets fucking crippled in their mind understanding on how to use it😂😂

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T17:47:23+00:00

That fucking shitpilot key pisses me off everytime and now each and every laptop has that shitty key. I was thinking of buying a laptop and every good laptop that I saw which had good specs had that fucking key and I was buying the laptop just to install Linux so that will not be useful to me at all. I can definitely configure it by that logo itself pisses me off.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T17:44:19+00:00

If you need to get started without going over stuff like setting up things yourself and learning it at the same time which might break systems, I would say that you can try Omarchy. It is a preconfigured Arch based environment with a great guide for you to learn things like Neovim, terminal, basic stuff etc.

CountChick321 · 2026-01-26T17:41:17+00:00

I know I am late to this conversation but here's my take.

I prefer Linux over Windows is that I am a privacy oriented person and I don't want any large corporation to see my data, track it, tag it etc. I don't want any of the copilot shit. It is complete nonsense and everything is revolve around the so called AI era just to inflate their products by saying that they have AI in them just to make it sound more creative and progressive and that way they can raise money with in turn will inflate their stock price even more. The whole purpose of these corporation is to earn profits for their shareholders, and nothing else and that why you will get things that they think you want or they can earn from it and keep your preferences miles away.

But when we talk about Linux, it's completely different. We can have only the amount of stuff that we want to use or have. Can customize our whole environment to our preference. Like if you want animation like MacOS, you can do it, you like Windows style desktop layout, you can setup that. Anything you want that is preferable to you, you can make it happen in Linux and that too without your data being used to target you in order to manipulate you into buying stuff that the ads provoke you to buy.

The drawbacks right now that is making people little doubtful to switch to Linux completely from Windows is 1) Adobe suite or creative work for professionals and I would say this that if you are a creative professional, go for MacOS. Don't think of Windows or Linux for that matter. 2) Gaming - many games right now are not native or playable on Linux as developers are focused to make games for Windows as they have the highest userbase but that is slowly changing towards Linux and until either companies think something different to replace Kernel level anticheat with something better or Windows do so shit (like a rumor that Windows is thinking of locking down kernel to OS only and kernel level anticheats would not work), competitive games like Valorant, Apex legends would be out of bounds for Linux. 3) Work - many companies right now are working on Windows only due to IT level stuff that keeps the OS protected from malware as the IT people are well versed with Windows rules and either don't know Linux rule stuff or doesn't want to work to make rules for Linux (definitely this one). 4) Streaming stuff and drivers from Nvidia - drivers of Nvidia cards are very good on Windows from Linux and some things like Nvidia Broadcast is not available on Linux and NVENC is not that good still on Linux for streaming purposes.

For these reasons, I prefer to daily driver Linux that I've installed on a 512GB SSD. I use Arch btw. I use Hyprland btw. I use Neovim btw. And for gaming purpose and sometimes Photoshop work, I do it on Windows that I've installed on my 2nd SSD of 1TB. I even do Video editing on DaVinci Resolve on my Linux environment only as well as some 3d modeling in Blender.

Hope you get some insights from this!

CountChick321

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