>The dortania guides along with /r/hackintosh are all you need
>Avoid ..., insanelymac,
Where did the tools mentioned in those guides come from then? Hackintosh scene became what it is due to countless hours poured into development by developers from insanelymac, olarila & couple of other Russian sites; almost every other major hackintosh site started as guides using the information from the aforementioned sites.
In fact the development discussion of OpenCore, happens at insanelymac[1].
The tools largely come from a Russian guy who goes by vit9696, along with some of his developer friends.
He may (loosely) use InsanelyMac for OpenCore discussion, but the rest of the site is generally full of questionable and often outright wrong advice and to keep things short for the noobs I was speaking to, it's easier to steer people away from it.
Pretty much everything can be done just using the Dortania guide and /r/hackintosh and maybe the "official" Discord, if something goes wrong.
>He may (loosely) use InsanelyMac for OpenCore discussion,
Checking the discussion shows it's not true.
>but the rest of the site is generally full of questionable and often outright wrong advice
May be you had a bad experience with the site, or may be it really isn't 'noob' friendly anymore, but that doesn't mean you should discredit the actual developers of the tools in favour of the 'How To' guides written about the very same tools.
I'm just attaching the fundamental components of Hackintosh nowadays, but if we dig back in insanelymac the contributions goes back more than a decade when Apple used to sell their OS on discs. The content there are worthy of preservation at The Computer Museum.
The InsanelyMac site is riddled with bad advice from questionable sources. Eg. using the beast tools, binary patching kexts for dumb reasons, rando plist changes.
I did not have a "bad experience" per se, with the site. It's just full of unschooled people all too eager to offer bad advice.
I respectfully disagree, learning what's happening with your machine is helpful for troubleshooting and for security. Further, I feel the parent comment was disrespectful for the actual creators.
>Avoid ..., insanelymac,
Where did the tools mentioned in those guides come from then? Hackintosh scene became what it is due to countless hours poured into development by developers from insanelymac, olarila & couple of other Russian sites; almost every other major hackintosh site started as guides using the information from the aforementioned sites.
In fact the development discussion of OpenCore, happens at insanelymac[1].
[1]https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/338516-opencore-disc...