Perhaps this has some resemblance to the “can it run DOOM” experiment, as X (Twitter) user @whatdahopper has showcased one Steam Deck with the macOS Sequoia installed in the machine. As the user noted, it did take quite some effort to get it (barely) working.
The Hackintosh Steam Deck
Getting anything outside of Apple’s own hardware to run macOS is a tall mountain to climb, and it gets a term for it – Hackintosh, which derived from Macintosh, Mac’s original name. It’s a common way for users that wants the Apple software, but not necessarily its hardware; although it should be known by now that this is not something that Apple approves at all.
Still, the installation of macOS Sequoia on Steam Deck is nothing practical, and is very much “pointless,” as the user said. As an experiment, it is still quite a feat that it runs at all, as the image shows the system running on vertical orientation (as it lacks GPU acceleration) and is running on the Recovery mode, so nothing close to being a fully-functional Hackintosh for now.
So, is this the end of the road for the experiment? Not just yet. Given that Apple’s operating system supports AMD’s RDNA2 architecture (pre M-series Macs were using Mac-exclusive Radeon GPUs for GPU duty), which is the same found in Steam Deck’s APU, this on paper means getting the macOS Sequoia running in full functionality is theoretically possible.
Source: Tom’s Hardware
Pokdepinion: Never doubt the modders pulling off this kind of engineering challenge.
