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So I'm guessing there is a lot of Linux guys here and I have just bought a new HDD for installing Linux. So what do you guys recommend for a total newbie (with only Linux that is) like me?
Anything else than Ubuntu
Thanks
I reckon Ubuntu is your best bet Pretty n00b friendly
Edit: lol Just noticed the big writing saying not ubuntu my bad
Try looking here http://www.linux.org/dist/
Set language to english and intel compatible and it will show all the Linux Distributions Maybe just see wht you like the look off
MacaronyMax said:
I reckon Ubuntu is your best bet Pretty n00b friendly
Edit: lol Just noticed the big writing saying not ubuntu my bad
Try looking here http://www.linux.org/dist/
Set language to english and intel compatible and it will show all the Linux Distributions Maybe just see wht you like the look off
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Thx will do
BTW how did you know I have an intel?
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Thx will do
BTW how did you know I have an intel?
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I didn't There was no AMD lol
i'm thinking about Linux now, haha, would i be able to set a dual boot on my laptop that already has XP on it?
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i'm thinking about Linux now, haha, would i be able to set a dual boot on my laptop that already has XP on it?
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Yep you would either need another harddrive or to partition your harddrive or to run in a VM
i was just gonna make another partition, and if i do, and it installs, will it automatically ask me which to boot from when i power it on?
Why not Ubuntu just out of curiosity. Don't want to start a flame war
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i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
factualpuddle said:
i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
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Not too big realy maybe 8GB if your not going to use it much but otherwise more
factualpuddle said:
i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
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Ubuntu can make almost all the partition work for you
Keithod said:
Why not Ubuntu just out of curiosity. Don't want to start a flame war
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I just think it's too common and too similar to Windows I want something new
Oh okay. If you try something "exotic" let us know your feedback!! I am going to do a reinstall on my computer soon and was thinking of switching away from Ubuntu just for the sake of trying something new so I'd like to hear some objective reviews.
Have you thought about "rolling your own"?
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Keithod said:
Oh okay. If you try something "exotic" let us know your feedback!! I am going to do a reinstall on my computer soon and was thinking of switching away from Ubuntu just for the sake of trying something new so I'd like to hear some objective reviews.
Have you thought about "rolling your own"?
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What do you mean? I did write "newbie" in the title right?
Sorry I meant you can make your own. There's a site dedicated to it but you might not want to do that just yet. Have you looked at OpenSuse? Haven't used it in a while but it was good. I tried the KDE version of Federa a month or two ago. A bit buggy! Mint Linux has had some good reviews anyway just my input!
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Keithod said:
Sorry I meant you can make your own. There's a site dedicated to it but you might not want to do that just yet. Have you looked at OpenSuse? Haven't used it in a while but it was good. I tried the KDE version of Federa a month or two ago. A bit buggy! Mint Linux has had some good reviews anyway just my input!
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Personally it's only the GUI I want to have some variety in so I'm trying out "Xubuntu" which I think is Ubuntu with XDE desktop-thing-which-I-don't-remember-what's-called-thing xD I did read about openSUSE but it was too much like Ubuntu I think
For a complete noob, Ubuntu is the way to go. It'll get you started pretty quick and the interface is just a matter of choice. If you want something that's uberHaxX0rZ, try installing a tiling Window Manager such as awesome instead of Gnome (which is default in Ubuntu).
I myself use Arch Linux with gnome-panel and Compiz as a standalone Window Manager and I'm loving it!
I myself am an Ubuntu man. I'm currently digging the Ubuntu 10.10 beta. 2 weeks until the final release!
I myself is trying to use the default window manager in Kubuntu but I can't get it working It's driving me crazy :/ It just says that non of the effects could be enabled...
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
I myself is trying to use the default window manager in Kubuntu but I can't get it working It's driving me crazy :/ It just says that non of the effects could be enabled...
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This usually happens because the drivers for your graphics card aren't installed properly (or the card is ancient).
This is exactly one of the things why I personally dislike Ubuntu. If you're lucky, it'll work like a charm, but if you're not, you're gonna spend hours and hours trying to get it to work.
Either way, you can probably fix it by downloading and installing proprietary drivers for your card, since the open source ones probably don't work with your card. Though on the other hand, maybe you need to use opensource ones because the proprietary ones that installed automatically don't work? Who knows?
Did anyone see the article on meego posted to the nook? Can't post the link right now just google it.
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didnt mean to thank but oh well...
heres a video on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5xtnP22Fuw
was just gonna post a topic about meego on NC, seems like u got there first.
cant wait to install meego on my NC. i love my NC <3
I can't wait to try it too. Anybody know of install instructions for it yet? I hit up Meegoexperts and they just had the article.
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I can't wait to try it too. Anybody know of install instructions for it yet? I hit up Meegoexperts and they just had the article.
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http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Nook_Color
That's the best I could find for "instructions" and its not by the people (nomovok) who actually got it running so well. I believe in the link above the dev is having trouble with xorg.
Yes I wouldn't mind trying this to, especially if the OS is hardware accelerated throughout.
I would be interested too
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I did some searching and was unable to find any other instruction for building or any downloads for meego on nook color. I am thinking this will rock if we can get it working.
Very cool! Cannot wait to give this a try
would be nice to have specific instructions, seems like the person on meego wiki instruction built the image using the source codes from meego and B&N. the person is suppose to post his image soon I guess?
can't seem to find anything directly from novomok though. Would be nice to try this out
oh looks nice and the Package manage is RPM I wander if we can install RPM apps
anyone know how to build from code.
I dont but I will test
here is a good thred to keep an eye on
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3037&page=4
This sounds interesting.
Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
quoting wmarone
"According to what I've heard, it's a chroot inside the Android 2.2 environment. So not much to be gained from the kernel there. Nonetheless, a cool proof of concept."
Too bad its a chroot, It'd be cool to actually have this running natively.
Interessting. I miss my n900. maybe my nook can help me to forget them ^^
I can't wait to flash meego^^
Any news about meego on NC ?
Haven't heard or seen anything at all about it lately. I would love it if somebody made some ARM Linux distro work on it. It'd open it up to everything.
You can check the Meego project for it but I'm not sure it's been updated lately.
The main problem is kernel.
Meego need 2.6.37 and above kernel, but no drvers for NC now.
riverzhou said:
The main problem is kernel.
Meego need 2.6.37 and above kernel, but no drvers for NC now.
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Are we not on that kernel yet? Hmm, maybe it was 2.6.32 that we're on.
Good to know something about it though. I'd still love MeeGo on this thing. Think it would be pretty awesome.
I like how that looks. I miss MeeGo...
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-combined
Now that it is open sourced...and we have a great hackable device..
That is if HP doesn't change its mind like it has on all the other decisions in the last 3 months.
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I missed the firesale (in the UK), unfortunately. It appeared in argos.co.uk and I ordered one, but all I had was a lousy excuse that it had already run out. This is good news! Anyone else has an idea where I can get one for only $99?
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I missed the firesale (in the UK), unfortunately. It appeared in argos.co.uk and I ordered one, but all I had was a lousy excuse that it had already run out. This is good news! Anyone else has an idea where I can get one for only $99?
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They are having a refurb firesale on their eBay store Sunday, but US only i believe.
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They are having a refurb firesale on their eBay store Sunday, but US only i believe.
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I must have missed out - again.
oppy said:
I must have missed out - again.
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It is at 6PM Central Time, only 11:30 here now, so nope.
Can't wait to see what the community does with this.
piotrbartkowiak said:
if you'll look on Nook Color from part perspective it looks very similar ( except screen) to pre 2.
Same Ram
Pre2 OMAP3630 Vs Nook Color OMAP3621
I was trying to extract os image from my palm sdk/emulator but nothing good come out of it yet. If anyone have any ideas or tips, maybe some experience with extracting images from android sdk and porting them to phones, or useful tutorial how its done.
Thanks
Piotr
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948473
..seems there was some interest at the above thread when it was closed source.. perhaps we will see some renewed interest?
Here's hoping!
I think its a neat idea, however I think they could've garnered their own support (for the os) if they just added compatibility coding with native android apps (webos is still built on top of linux). Open-sourced was still one of the better decisions we've seen from that company in the past year.
What does this thread have to do with the Nook Color?
It has very similar hardware to a webos device, therefore porting it would be a bit easier than for devices with no drivers at all. Could be interesting, I've never played with a webos device so I am kind of curious how user friendly their software is.
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What does this thread have to do with the Nook Color?
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>Open Source
>Close in terms of hardware to existing webOS devices
>Nook is a very hacker friendly device
So what you guys thinking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXpLUr5WB4
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So what you guys thinking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXpLUr5WB4
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if someone got this working for a touchpad, i would be willing to give up android and webos for this. i am actually a fan of webos and i wish it had better support. i am just a user and no dev, so in reality i am not a solution.
With most things android it will just require the right people and circumstances and it can happen. But the touchpad has had its issues with compatibility and not to short any of the devs here, it seems that there are fewer with touchpads than other devices so ya never know.
As soon as we get 13.04 fully working on the Touchpad (well, at least to a point where it is useable like the 12.10 now) then we can get Ubuntu for Phones. It's not so much the kernel because they're gonna fully open source Ubuntu for Phones by the end of this month so we only need to port the GUI over to the 13.04 base (which should be doable).
Though I'm not sure how useable it would be. I mean, it's targeted for 4-5 inch phones so will it be useable and not just a stretched lay-out like the old Android 2.3 tablets?
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As soon as we get 13.04 fully working on the Touchpad (well, at least to a point where it is useable like the 12.10 now) then we can get Ubuntu for Phones. It's not so much the kernel because they're gonna fully open source Ubuntu for Phones by the end of this month so we only need to port the GUI over to the 13.04 base (which should be doable).
Though I'm not sure how useable it would be. I mean, it's targeted for 4-5 inch phones so will it be useable and not just a stretched lay-out like the old Android 2.3 tablets?
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Considering that Shuttleworth announced ubuntu for tablets within the last couple days, I think we can be hopeful that a "tablet ubuntu" will end up on the touchpad a short time after it ends up on other android devices.
Basically, its as easy to build as CM.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/
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This can be done.
Pulled sources this morning and cross compiled. In the emulator everything works perfectly. Will have to to wait till the USPS brings me my new tablet in the next few days to be sure. But i think i can have something ready to go fairly soon.
I have done ports before with some success. you just gotta understand, getting it running and getting the hardware support are two very different things.
I will keep this page updated ad i get progress or crash and burn, Either way. Unless Divine_Madcat decides to close this thread as well.
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Considering that Shuttleworth announced ubuntu for tablets within the last couple days, I think we can be hopeful that a "tablet ubuntu" will end up on the touchpad a short time after it ends up on other android devices.
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Yes, but when I posted that on February 10 there was no Ubuntu for Tablets yet. But indeed, now there is so it'll probably come to our Touchpad.
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This can be done.
Pulled sources this morning and cross compiled. In the emulator everything works perfectly. Will have to to wait till the USPS brings me my new tablet in the next few days to be sure. But i think i can have something ready to go fairly soon.
I have done ports before with some success. you just gotta understand, getting it running and getting the hardware support are two very different things.
I will keep this page updated ad i get progress or crash and burn, Either way. Unless Divine_Madcat decides to close this thread as well.
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Willing to test any alpha builds and such
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Its still a developer preview, I tried it on my nexus 7 and its cool and all but not groundbreaking yet.
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Waiting for cm10.1 for touchpad because I would love to give this a look.
Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Well if you do get a port working for the Touchpad please let me know. I am very interested in giving this a try.
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Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Make a new thread once you are able to release something.
modem_over said:
Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Did you see my scripts I made for the TouchpadBuntu project? Might be a good starting point. The install script had been verified good by many people though I think I left out a line on the uninstall script, if I remember correctly.
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Did you see my scripts I made for the TouchpadBuntu project? Might be a good starting point. The install script had been verified good by many people though I think I left out a line on the uninstall script, if I remember correctly.
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Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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Exactly. I thought it was CM10.1 but the base of this is CM. It still will take effort to port, but it's not the same as other Ubuntu variants that have been releases for TP.
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modem_over said:
Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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I just meant for the partitioning part that he was having trouble with. My scripts didn't have much to do with Ubuntu itself, more terminal commands run within WebOS to create the necessary partitions for Ubuntu. I think those might help still though, if someone wants to keep Android instead of replacing it with Ubuntu Touch.
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I just meant for the partitioning part that he was having trouble with. My scripts didn't have much to do with Ubuntu itself, more terminal commands run within WebOS to create the necessary partitions for Ubuntu. I think those might help still though, if someone wants to keep Android instead of replacing it with Ubuntu Touch.
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Yes, I have found that to be helpful. I think with that partitioning should be finished up tonight. Who knows. Class for the next few days than back to this project.
Thanks man.
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Yes, I have found that to be helpful. I think with that partitioning should be finished up tonight. Who knows. Class for the next few days than back to this project.
Thanks man.
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Looks like someone else has this going. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175277
OK, I understand that there is many "Hackintosh" video guides out there to be found...
Would it be worth my time to create a step by step guide?
Or would I be wasting my time considering XDA Computing Fourm is not what the majority come here for?
Cheers ;0
When I look for a guide/walk-though, my Google/DuckDuck search starts with xda (then normally github) before a general search.
I do not think it would be a waist of time to write up a step by step guide.
It looks like there is some interest already.
macOS on my Lenovo G400 xdaThread - Link
This is a new part of xda and the more involvement the bigger it will grow.
The little bit I have read about Hackintosh, there always seems to be issues making everything work.
A good guide and general discussion thread would be a big help.
I would not be surprised if more than a few xda members are hackintosh users.
Cheers.
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When I look for a guide/walk-though, my Google/DuckDuck search starts with xda (then normally github) before a general search.
I do not think it would be a waist of time to write up a step by step guide.
It looks like there is some interest already.
macOS on my Lenovo G400 xdaThread - Link
This is a new part of xda and the more involvement the bigger it will grow.
The little bit I have read about Hackintosh, there always seems to be issues making everything work.
A good guide and general discussion thread would be a big help.
I would not be surprised if more than a few xda members are hackintosh users.
Cheers.
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I agree!!.. XDA Computing forums might be small right now but I believe it is going to grow super quick...
I will need to do some poking around and see what the best options are for making a guide
There is so many different PC hardware that may or may not be compatible with Hackintosh..
now we have a full guide on opencore website
I have a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus elite running the latest version of Monterey with OpenCore bootloader. I would be interested in anything hackintosh on XDA
GeeAyeZee said:
I have a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus elite running the latest version of Monterey with OpenCore bootloader. I would be interested in anything hackintosh on XDA
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OK cool. I will make a guide this weekend.. I have been super busy with work and haven't had time to build the guide
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now we have a full guide on opencore website
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OK. Good to know. I have not seen this yet. I will look at it. I have my own methods that I prefer just like you with opencore
Very interested! I have a HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl that I want to try hackintosh on.
I build a full working hackingtosh BIG SUR on my LAPTOP ASUS ROG G732WLS 2020. if someone need help and EFI files. iam using open core for that. all working wifi, bluetooth, sound etc..
abdoulgaf said:
I build a full working hackingtosh BIG SUR on my LAPTOP ASUS ROG G732WLS 2020. if someone need help and EFI files. iam using open core for that. all working wifi, bluetooth, sound etc..
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Hi, I am very interested in help with booting usb and setting up the bios for my Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black laptop so that I can successfully install Hackintosh.
Thank You for answer
Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black (i5)
brick00444 said:
Very interested! I have a HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl that I want to try hackintosh on.
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I think I can help you with that
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Hi, I am very interested in help with booting usb and setting up the bios for my Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black laptop so that I can successfully install Hackintosh.
Thank You for answer
Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black (i5)
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Check dortania and olarila, those are reliable sources for hackintosh
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I think I can help you with that
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Hi, I'm interested in getting Mac Osx running on my HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl . I have had a couple other laptops running osx but can't seem to figure this one out to get to the install screen. I have never used OpenCore but that seems to be the thing to use. any help to get started and help with the kexts I might need would be great. Thanks for your time.
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Hi, I'm interested in getting Mac Osx running on my HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl . I have had a couple other laptops running osx but can't seem to figure this one out to get to the install screen. I have never used OpenCore but that seems to be the thing to use. any help to get started and help with the kexts I might need would be great. Thanks for your time.
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Read dortania guide for kaby lake first, then configure config.plist to make it boot then fix the persist problems ( sleep, wifi, bluetooth,...). Make a post on xda so i can help you.