Maybe I should think about moving my Macbook's operating system to Linux. I keep running into such problems like above with the, by now 8 year old operating system that is no longer supported by Apple.
Updating it would be possible to a certain, also not current version. But I don't want to make the required change in the drive format that comes after my old version 10.13.6. And anyway, I'd lose a few apps which wouldn't run on a MacOS newer than 10.13.

This machine itself probably runs just fine for another 3-5 years.
Would be grand to avoid buying new (or 2nd hand) earlier than necessary.

So if I lose those old apps anyway, I maybe prefer to get used to Linux and to the apps on Linux rather than falling into another proprietary OS trap.
And a small partition on the side can still be reserved for MacOS 10.13 – if not even simply starting it as a Virtual Box directly from a Linux-booted system.

I haven't heard of Linux-ifying a Mac before. Heard of #Hackintosh of course, which is the other way round, turning a non-Apple device into a Mac . If that works with all the drivers for audio, network and stuff, it should work in the opposite direction as well.
Hope the process is not too involved. My poor brain can't handle solving self-created computer problems...

@topher My bext bets would be #helloSystem or #macOS on a #Hackintosh...

alright fedi im sorry but im gonna use some hashtags cause i want to try to get the attention of people who understand this shit better then me

So why does my mom’s wifi just fucking hate me depending on the operating system? I’m using a thinkpad t480 with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 wifi card.

If I boot up arch linux or windows the wifi works fine.

If I boot up macOS using the itlwm wifi drivers im getting like 150KB/s max.

If I boot up FreeBSD using wifibox it will disconnect every like 30 seconds and leads to an extremely unreliable connection. Wifibox is just using an alpine linux VM and pci passthrough to control the wifi card so it should work just as well here as it does under arch linux.

Also none of this happens on any other network. The network settings are whatever xfinity sets them to. I don’t know how to check and I can’t change them because they’re optimized for my experience or whatever.

Don’t tell me to buy another router or some other nonsense. It’s not my house, not my network, and there’s no issues for anyone else on any other device. This is entirely a me and my laptop problem.

@jhx Apple has some bespoke booting stuff so #Hackintosh users have to constantly use tools like #Clover to modify a .dmg file from a #macOS installer to make it even boot and inject the necessary Kexts into the system so it doesn't fall flat on it's face.

Granted I do use those bootable drives as a more flexible option and I have all sorts of OSes on them for quick deployment.

• Personally I develop @OS1337 so I can have a slim live-booting non-persistent #Linux to be able to do the same without having to physically plug stuff into a system, but also to get base installs and data recovery made faster and simpler.

Otherwise the only thing even better than Ventoy on it's own is preparing a custom bootable image with a linux desktop on for a truly "normadic" desktop.

• @tails_live / @tails / #Tails comes close to it but doesn't really like installing a persistent storage on a drive with ventoy (even if one has a spare partition for it!) and for people who just want to have some tools like #ddrescue at hand, a regular linux desktop is more useful!

I mean, @kalilinux can be used for #DataRecovery but it's not intended to be used as a versatile daily driver (just like one opens a door with a key and not some breaching charges and a crowbar)...

@Natsura depends...

I know several folks that would happily pay €500 per year for #macOS on non-#Apple hardware...

• But sadly that's not an option...

Personally I don't have vacant hardware unused to do a #KVM-based #Hackintosh with #GPU-Passthrough.

@larrybiggs @jak2k @NanoRaptor yeah, I need to #Hackintosh my #X230t cuz that's cooler than the #ModBook!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoX-5KIh9Q
https://github.com/verfasor/X230T-Hackintosh

@BrideOfLinux It was such a completely difference experience. My feeling at the time, was how different and unpolished it looked. #KDE was mature, but #GNOME felt like a work in progress. I occasionally would play around with it to see if I could get use to it. Ultimately, I moved on and became more immersed in Longhorn, got burned out on that and started playing with #Hackintosh, dabbled with Ubuntu then back to #Windows 7 and Windows 8.

@blackcoffeerider @kc nickt zustimmend

Leider (!!!) sind all diese Argumente korrekt!

• #Apple-Hardware ist absurd #paywalled und wer auf #Accessibility angewiesen ist denen würde ich von nem #Hackintosh abraten.

• #Linux muss in Sachen #Barrierefreiheit noch vieles besser machen!

• Selbst #Braillescreens für 80x25 Terminal-Ausgabe sind extrem teuer und quasi unbezahlbar (sonst hätte ich mir schon 1 geholt um @OS1337 gegenzutesten!)...

• Die meisten Accessibility-Verbesserungen und -Projete seitens #Firmen die mir bekannt sind basieren auf gesetzlichen Vorgaben wie "must-offer' #Basisdienste wo denen die @BNetzA und andere Regulierer in den Nacken atmen und sagen dass die das #barrierefrei machen müssen - nicht weil diese einsehen dass #barrierearmut und #Benutzerfreundlichkeit sowie #Kundenservice an sich gute Dinge sind!