Acer Nitro 5 Hackintosh?

I love this community and I’ve been messing around with installing Hackintoshes on external hard drives but now I want to go official and do it for real. The only problem is that there are barely any resources online applicable to my computer and I’m not experienced enough to go fully alone on this. I have seen one post online and one YouTube video and both say that there is a problem with video cards and it’s only detecting 7 MB of VRAM. I also love experimenting with Linux distributions but I also have a problem in that department and I was curious to know if it would happen with a Hackintosh. The problem is that with any other OS except windows, The computer doesn’t automatically switch between internal graphics and the GTX 1050. I can’t just leave the big graphics card on all the time because it makes much more noise and it’s much more battery intensive, on windows (which I hate but I am stuck with) it automatically turns on the big graphics card when I am gaming but when I am doing basic tasks it uses an Intel HD which makes barely any noise and it is power efficient. I just hate windows, they want money and they include sponsors which is ridiculous because if you’re paying for an operating system you don’t expect ads within its own main menu, and it just doesn’t work well and it has nothing to go for it.

I’m sorry for the long paragraph but here are my two basic questions: 1) Will I be able to Hackintosh an Acer Nitro 5, Will it be well functioning (wifi, video memory, ram, lid closing, audio, ports: USB slots, DRIVERS, direct x, hardware optimization, Touchpad, Camera, stuff like that...) 2) Will it be automatically switching between the two integrated GPUs for gaming and regular tasks. I heard that “Nvidia Optimus/Switchable Graphics is not supported by Hackintosh” In an online post on a similar laptop with a similar graphics card situation. 3) If I am unsure about all of this or I’m scared of some stuff won’t work should I dual boot? Because I have heard that it is a bad idea and in most cases the windows boot loader tries to get over everything and destroys the Hackintosh boot loader or something like that I’m not sure.

Here are my specs: Product Name: Acer Nitro AN515-53 Intel Core I5-8300H CPU 2.30GHZ Bios Mode: UEFI 2 Hard drives: 128gb SSD for OS, 1 TB for files HDD 12 GB RAM Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050

I’m sorry for being such a noob but I really don’t wanna mess this up and I thank you all. Stay safe!

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