Will Steamdeck be able to boot MacOS?

kennethk · February 18, 2022

I wouldn't have much of a need to do this but I'm curious if it would be at all possible to get some sort of hackintosh to run on Steamdeck granted there wouldn't be much of a point to do this it would be cool to see MacOS running on a portable pc.

jaslion · February 18, 2022

Maybe. Hackintosh on ryzen is possible but quite hard. Depends on how much community effort is behind it. Hackintoshing has kinda taken a dip since osx went arm.

kennethk · February 18, 2022

4 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Maybe. Hackintosh on ryzen is possible but quite hard. Depends on how much community effort is behind it. Hackintoshing has kinda taken a dip since osx went arm.

Yeah like I said there wouldn't be much of a need, I could see Apple releasing some sort of MacOS gaming tablet for like the triple of the cost now, not anytime soon. GarageBand and protools would be fun to mess around with but at that cost it would make more sense just to buy a MacBook air or something.

Master Disaster · February 18, 2022

45 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Maybe. Hackintosh on ryzen is possible but quite hard. Depends on how much community effort is behind it. Hackintoshing has kinda taken a dip since osx went arm.

Not at all, yes it VERY much used to be (though you could get AIO installers that would do it automagically) but these days its no harder on AMD than it was on Intel.

The issue is driver support, hackintosh has always been at the mercy of Apples closed hardware ecosystem, essentially if Apple haven't ever supported a device officially then it pretty much never works and AFAIK Apple have never supported onboard GPUs on AMD CPUs.

Alexeygridnev1993 · February 18, 2022

You can install anything on anything, if you're perverted enough no reasons why it wouldn't be possible via Clover, but why.

Master Disaster · February 18, 2022

1 hour ago, Alexeygridnev1993 said:

You can install anything on anything, if you're perverted enough no reasons why it wouldn't be possible via Clover, but why.

Clover? That's ancient tech and was dropped because it ended up causing more issues than it solved, these days its recommended to use OpenCore for both Intel & AMD systems since it doesn't use any kernel hacks (which means you can do in place updates for smaller security patches), doesn't require the user to disable SIP, supports Apple SecureBoot and bootcamp. Plus it can run any version of macOS from Tiger to Current meaning you can theoretically run 10.4 on a Zen 3 if you are totally mad