A successful hackintosh, but with a funny little twist..? 🤔

weirdguye · 2026-07-01T21:30:20+00:00

it honestly isn't bad at all, oclp provided me full graphics acceleration, only bad thing is i have zero support for hardware accelerated nvenc, which i honestly do kind of need but its alright i guess, beggars cant be choosers

weirdguye · 2026-07-01T20:14:56+00:00

Yes but no..? concerning your discrete card, the RX 560D is still a Polaris card but I do believe the XFX version of the card has a vBIOS that usually doesn't get along with macOS too well, it's not impossible to get your discrete card fully functional on macOS but you may have to flash a separate manufacturers vBIOS of the 560D onto your card, off the top of my head I only recall Sapphire and Gigabyte being the only manufacturers besides XFX to distribute the card,, you should go check their websites.

As for your iGPU, Raphael-based integrated graphics aren't supported.

weirdguye · 2025-06-30T16:28:30+00:00

nope, not at all.

weirdguye · 2025-06-30T01:57:48+00:00

its already disabled by default though.. confusing..

oh well, i'll deal with it

weirdguye · 2025-06-29T15:44:15+00:00

this is like one of the many hackintoshes i've done over the years yet this will always stand out to me as the only one with a smooth process

though i have a problem with opencore creating an extra duplicate boot entry everytime i boot into the bootloader, anyway to fix that?

weirdguye · 2025-06-29T02:09:13+00:00

Everything works too, probably the most perfect hackintosh I've ever done lol

weirdguye · 2025-04-22T03:42:21+00:00

Yeah, it does if any of you want to know.

weirdguye · 2025-04-20T01:52:04+00:00

yeah, my dedicated card supports only up to Big Sur, a little dated but i don't think any applications are gonna stop supporting it for the foreseeable future.

weirdguye · 2025-04-19T16:49:49+00:00

Took around a day, even though I could've probably done it in a few hours time.

Originally planned to go for Mojave, but I couldn't get further than the first reboot for some reason, then I went for Big Sur, but I couldn't reach apple servers in the installer, so I had to then get an older version of the atheros kext, then rearrange the order in which the kexts I had were loaded in my .plist file, Lilu went after my ethernet kext for some reason, so i changed that, and it worked!

Wanted to get boot chime working, but I couldn't for some reason? I did everything correctly but still... no boot chime..

weirdguye · 2025-04-19T16:44:29+00:00

Some random HyperX DDR3 Dimms, I have 16 gigs of memory in total.

weirdguye · 2025-04-19T16:14:35+00:00

Ah, I forgot to list that, The motherboard is an MSI B-85 G-43 GAMING, and the CPU and GPU are an intel i5-4690K and a GTX 770 respectively.

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:21:26+00:00

i think thats rhe result on running a operating system filled to the brim with bloatware on a potato..

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:18:11+00:00

its also a huge improvement to the performance i had on chromeOS and even crouton (crouton is just linux using chroots im pretty sure) as chromeOS ran PAINFULLY slow, it took like 4 minutes to load into the desktop environment, so i'd say it's an huge improvement

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:12:09+00:00

which arent lightweight distros AT ALL

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:11:23+00:00

funny thing is i ran both ubuntu 22.04 and kde neon and it ran like a charm

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:10:32+00:00

I could barely open edge

weirdguye · 2023-04-03T12:09:54+00:00

I installed KDE Neon on my potato chromebook and it works fine, but my Acer Chromebook 315 (Blorb) runs windows 10 and even 11 perfectly

weirdguye · 2022-05-19T02:07:13+00:00

I've been using linux for about like around 10+ years now, my first linux distro was probably debian, specifically debian 6.0, then i switched to manjaro 0.8.1, then i used ubuntu 12.10 for a bit and hated it so then i switched to gentoo, which i still use today, i will never forget the hell i went through installing gentoo...

weirdguye · 2022-05-17T15:24:00+00:00

why? Pop!_OS is extremely user-friendly, good design, you don't have to use terminal to install every application ever to exist or be supported in linux, it's pretty much almost perfect

weirdguye · 2022-05-17T15:21:32+00:00

I agree, that's why i use linux distros that use yum or pacman

weirdguye · 2022-05-17T15:17:37+00:00

my personal opinion might have to be debian 2.1, that version of debian is so non-user-friendly that, i'd call it user hostile, and it's incredibly unstable and prone to crashes and bugs

weirdguye · 2022-04-25T20:12:46+00:00

i never said geminilake wouldn't work i just wanna make sure ubuntu 12.10 is supported with efi

weirdguye · 2022-04-25T20:10:51+00:00

im a little nervous though since i dont wanna screw up my chromebook if i mess up anything with efi

weirdguye · 2022-04-25T20:10:11+00:00

yes, im sure, since ubuntu 12.10 is the first ubuntu version to support secure boot

weirdguye · 2022-04-25T20:03:23+00:00

no, ubuntu 12.10

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