(13/04/2013 09:38 AM)Tetris999 Wrote:  

(11/04/2013 08:39 AM)RIKKU Wrote:  actually hackintosh systems are incredibly easy to make/do now

As long as you have core i3-i5-i7
You should be fine for the cpu

most newer graphics cards ati especially are supported natively in 10.8.3
if not motherboards with HD3000 HD4000 HD5000
are also native derp


Sound cards can be used with the voodoo driver
But i have had no problem finding my sound card
And i use an old Cmedia card
Legit like 5 years old and i found active 64bit drivers for 10.8


Networking is a pain.
But Wireless g-n-ac Dongles with the right driver *most wireless usbs have drivers for osx included* Or you can search online for the kext - really easy

Motherboards Are a bit of a pain though.
Gigabyte boards are the best for hackintosh systems
Otherwise you need to patch and create your own dstd
Not that hard at all.

most mother board makes and models have allready got a dstd patched from chimera updates also


^_^ take a look into it tetris999

That's the thing though, it's not worth it to use an operating system that doesn't want you to use it if you don't play by its rules. What happens when an update comes out? or they patch something? It's just silly. No offense, but fudge Apple.

(11/04/2013 05:23 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Bash+coreutils environment for Windows: MSYS and cygwin
Alternative shells exist, though IDK if it's anything you want.

Have you tried the alternative ATI drivers?
I presume the games/Photoshop doesn't run nicely in Wine - and a VM doesn't like it either?

There's also coLinux, but IDK what that's like.

Unfortunately the open source ones are a lot better, but I'm unable to control the fans with it. This results in the fans going WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRR to the point that it drives me insane.

Cygwin sounds nice, but the windows desktop is just donkey...ugh.

(12/04/2013 06:02 PM)Barcelona Wrote:  There's also dual-booting

tis what I'm doing, but is not a cohesive (if not elegant) solution. I basically have to shift my focus to "doing a set of activities in windows" versus "a set of activities in linux". It's just very disorienting and a waste of time.

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What I'm considering on doing is buying more ram (4GB's, a small amount for todays computing) and just running a linux virtual machine atop of windows (since windows is the one that hogs the graphical capabilities of the desktop. I guess sharing folders between them will make the experience better as well, finally putting that quad core to use.

As for my laptop, just gonna have to deal with dual booting (but then again I don't do many GAEMING/GRAFIX on a laptop)

Why would you need to patch things if most of the hardware is supported natively
its no different then windows update
As long as your computer is set to something like a mac pro.
not a laptop or mac mini
it won't instal efi updates or bios updates

not that those would even matter it has nothing to update lol
the bootloader passes all of that

i don't mind the mac os
mainly for artwork and music
for everything else its gay

been playing bioshock, 1-2 and infinite on pc though D= sooo good
finshed infinite last week
ending was double you tee eff man :/