Getting back into Hackintosh but the landscape has changed

Hello everyone! I was involved in the OSX86 project back in the day - a funny name now considering so many real Macs ended up using x86 processors. By the time I stopped any involvement, the current version of Mac OS X was 10.6 - Snow Leopard. This was about 15 years ago.

At the time, the best method for installation among people who actually knew what they were doing was a retail install method. There was a genius named nawcom who had a blog and posted nawcom's modcd, and later nawcom's modusb, a bootable program that would allow you to install Mac OS from a retail DVD, available at the time from the Apple Store for $30 (and typically protected from booting on non-Apple hardware partly because it used EFI and that was not yet standard elsewhere) and nawcom's modcd had a really great script that would check your hardware and include necessary kexts to patch the installer. This method had benefits over "distros" because you were installing the vanilla Mac OS, for the most part, and the vanilla kernel, so that you could update the system without borking everything.

Well, now it's been 15 years, and I'd like to get involved again, but I'm not sure where to start. Everything I knew back then is probably quite outdated by now. I have read over opencore's webpage, but I haven't done much else.

I have an Alienware M15R3, 2.6GHz six-core 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB of RAM 2,666MHz, Nvidia RTX 2070 GDDR6 8GB, 1TB PCIe M.2 SSD, Killer Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

I understand that the RTX card won't be supported, but I should be able to use the integrated GPU. What else should I know before attempting this? Anything I should read to avoid growing pains and headaches? Anything I should forget about what I know from before? And what version would you recommend I install?

Thanks!