Or do you keep a few Windows/Mac PCs lying around?

You know, just in case you need to run an app/game that only works perfectly on Windows/Mac and WINE/Proton wouldn’t run it?

Been thinking of Linuxifying my Laptop eversince I enjoyed Linux after defecting to it (from Windows) in my main PC (a Desktop).

  • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Surely you can do the same thing using a Hackintosh?

    Yes, but then you can’t actually test on Apple hardware, so something that works on a Hackintosh may not on an actual mac or vice versa. Also, the device I have is actually quite nice. It’s a 2011 MacBook Pro that I opened and fixed, then patched to run the newest version of macOS and disabled the kernel module that throttles the CPU when a sensor isn’t detected (macOS, for some reason, throttles your CPU to 500 MHz if any sensor, even unrelated to CPU is missing or reporting weird values, I had a broken battery, so it was throttling due to invalid voltage readings).

    How did you manage to install Linux in your phone? Unless it was a PinePhone/smartphone with a traditional Linux Distro (that’s not just Android/Tizen, but the Linux Distros you normally find/install) installed.

    It’s a PinePhone Pro onto which I flashed Arch Linux ARM.