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This is a fools errand like building a Hackintosh in the age of M silicon. Accept it and move along.


You do realise that this is effectively saying to people "what's wrong with you, just spend a few thousand £/$/€ and stop wasting time?"

Not everyone has £1000-£2000 lying around doing nothing. However, a lot of geeks have old PC hardware lying around doing nothing. One of the details I liked about The Big Bang Theory was the multiple half-cannibalised PC carcasses in the background of every shot.


Firstly donate unused PC's to a worthy cause - there are several folks in need of them than hoarding it - some people want things to work out of the box and OS upgrades to be seamless and don't want to tinker.

A Mac Mini is hardly breaking the bank.


Hard disagree with toys poor analogy. I don't have any stats but I'm sure a huge percentage of Twitter users are not using the latest version. I'm just choosing to to run a particular version. Anybody on iOS 14 and earlier will also be running this version.




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