Apple will end software support for 16 devices this fall across four product lines, with the Apple Watch seeing the most sweeping cull in the product's history. The full extent of this year's software drops became clear with the announcements of macOS 27 Golden Gate, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, and watchOS 27 at WWDC this week.
Genuinely makes me sad since this will likely kill off Hackintosh. I have an M3 Pro MBP and run Linux on my desktop so it doesn’t directly affect me, but I spent so many years running Hackintosh that it hurts to see its end (as we know it now). I’m sure there’ll be projects to run MacOS on third party ARM chips but it won’t be the same as now where you can usually get MacOS booting on any random hardware. At one point I was able to boot Mountain Lion on a cheap Dell Chromebook
Probably, but there seems to be a lot more interest in running Linux on old Mac hardware (and even newer Mac hardware) nowadays than running macOS on hackintoshes.
Hell, I have fedora 44 running on my 2012 iMac, and it runs like a dream.
I’ve been testing. Linuxes run great on the desktops. I’m about to set up an ‘Arr box using a 2012 mini.
However I am not comfortable using linux on Mac laptops anymore. It is just the little things that don’t quite work without considerable effort, like trackpad functions or camera etc, but mostly power and battery management. Better to lock down macOS as much as you can on those machines, OCLP or something.
5 distros tested this year. Probably going Debian desktop on the Mini. I’m trying to give away an ‘08 iMac running Mint nicely but linux confuses many people.