I hate to admit Window 10 is pretty good!

So I built my Hackintosh a little over 6 months ago. I've been a Mac user for almost 3 decades now. I stuck with Apple through the thin times for sure, but after last October's announcement, my MBP 2012 aging, and not having a reasonable desktop machine available I built my own Hackintosh, and I couldn't have been happier.

When I built the thing I added a second SSD drive and bought a Windows 10 license (I figured maybe I'd want to play some PC games, or do browser testing on the PC instead of trying to get my virtual machines to behave).

For almost 6 months I never booted into Windows. I just didn't have a need. At work I'm stuck on a Windows 7 machine that constantly infuriates me as a Mac user. I could never see myself using Windows! The mouse response is crap, scrolling sucks, the presentation of everything just feels half assed.

Then two things happened. I saw that RES is no longer being supported for Safari, which has been my primary browser for ages (I know, shame on me), so I committed to using Chrome as my primary browser. Also the summer Steam sale happened and I picked up a few PC only games (most notably Doom).

So I booted into Windows and since Doom was going to take 5 hours to download (64GB), I installed Chrome and began setting things up since I couldn't use my "Mac" while this was happening.

And an interesting thing happened... I didn't hate it. I installed the hack that allows me to use the Apple keyboard's volume keys. I hacked the registry to give me Apple-like scrolling. Windows 10 does one of the things I like about the Mac OS (vs. Win 7), which is scroll the window under the mouse instead of the one that has focus (one of those little things that frustrates me to no end on Win 7). I'm on Google mail so I set up my mail and calendar in Windows so I have parity of the important stuff.

Today I sit here seriously considering if I should just use Windows. I'll miss messages integration, but there's almost nothing else that Mac OS does for me that Windows 10 can't do. As a Mac user Windows 10 is quite good. If Windows 7 was 1/2 as good as the Mac (to me), Windows 10 is 9/10 as good. It's come a LONG way.

Also both OSes are so fast now that rebooting into the other OS doesn't take long at all. 45-50 seconds max, and most of that is the firmware and waiting for clover to come up.