Hackintosh - End of a Journey.

The day has come, to which I de-convert from a once dedicated 'tosher... As the Wind-slows 11 bootable usb chugs away in the background, I spend my last few minutes with my beloved hackintosh. Ladies and gents, the final hour has come.

I woke up one day back around 2013 from an awesome power nap, with the crazy idea "could I run apple software on my PC?". The genesis of a journey that took me across nearly 10, maybe 11, releases-- fighting each and every bug in the system. Genuinely, I've probably fresh installed OS X (remember when they called it that) over a thousand times before in dire troubleshooting efforts. Albeit, after about Yosemite, my hardware was a little more dialed... But brothers, the graphics card upgrades over the years... ahh most of em worked, some didn't. Get those NVIDIA driver update .pkgs, man. Ah wait, not supported anymore.. I digress... How about spending upwards of 16 hours straight trying to get audio working (just buy the $6 USB audio adapter bro, come on). VoodooHDA anyone?

Heck, I remember clear back to 10.5 leopard, which is where my journey began. Tony***\* was doing his thing (whoops) but the real gangsters hung out at OSX86.NET. Remember that site? You probably don't but it was sick. Shoutout to that community, you guys helped me out a lot. (Special shoutout to a user Kynderrr (or similar spelling). You helped me dial my release in several years back.)

Oh and those old bootloaders the dev's spun out. Remember Chameleon? How about Clover. Kext Utility, all these cool tools, props to the devs over the years.

Today, I don't know where/who/what the community is. I'm still rocking Big Sur (dont zero-day me pls). But I stopped caring awhile ago. Life is busy, friends. Times have changed and my computing needs have changed. Wind-slows is now my life. From what I do hear, it's an unfortunate fate for the Hackintosh scene. Wheres that old shoebox with the dusty GTX 980? Wind-slows here I come!

Ah to be honest, there's too much to say. Bit of a ramble, but wouldn't be a proper journey without a proper sayonara. Humor aside, 'tis been a great ride. Thanks for everyone over the years who developed tools and helped out.. Was a good ride running the best darn OS the world will ever see!!!

--PEACE