What guide should I follow?

If you did check the interwebs for guides, you most probably stumbled on guides referred as "Vanilla," some that use a tool like "Unibeast" and "Multibeast," some that use a "distro" (distribution). And these 3 methods have a lot of differences and ways for the same result: Install macOS on an unsupported platform as your regular x86 machine. So what are the differences? To know that, you need to know how things roll in a hackintosh installation, the procedure goes like this:


 * 1) Make a USB with a "boot manager" (we use CLOVER for that) and macOS installer. This usually means a lot of thing depending on the method you're following. [*]
 * 2) Boot the USB, start the boot manager
 * 3) Boot macOS Installer
 * 4) Install macOS [*]
 * 5) Boot the installed macOS (using the same USB)
 * 6) Install the boot manager in your target disk [*]
 * 7) Fix the rest of the setup [*]
 * 8) You're good to go. [???]

[*] are the points of difference.

So here is how it goes for these 3 methods:


 * Vanilla: [The only supported method]
 * Make a Clover USB by using the original fork of CLOVER
 * Make a clover config manually.
 * Add/Delete the drivers needed manually and according to your needs, this lowers the chances of getting issues.
 * Use Apple's  to put the macOS installer in the USB
 * Boot to Clover then the macOS Installer.
 * Install macOS like you would on a regular mac
 * Boot the Clover USB, boot to the installed macOS
 * Install Clover to the HDD/SSD
 * Fix the rest manually and according to your needs.
 * Done
 * Pros
 * You understand what to do and what you did
 * Easy to troubleshoot
 * Get a better idea of how the process goes
 * You learn as you go
 * Seamless macOS upgrades without any issues
 * Cons
 * May require 3 brain cells (some may not have that)
 * Some misleading guides (like those from cough Hackintosher cough) that use inappropriate procedures and misinformation everywhere.
 * Even some distros try to pass for Vanilla, dont trust those.
 * Unibeast/Multibeast: [Not supported, doesn't help in the future]
 * Use their tool to make the installer (you have no idea what they did or what you need)
 * Boot to that USB (that probably contains an old version of Clover and the kexts with it)
 * If it ever succeeds to boot, you install macOS (that may or may not be tainted)
 * You boot to macOS, use Multibeast and install some random ass driver (picture).
 * Hope that it boots back to the desktop. If it does, you have yet to check if the changes have an effect or not.
 * Idk what people do later on, some just keep using it
 * Done???
 * Pros:
 * Easy (???, it's not even easy after that)
 * Cons:
 * You dont learn anything
 * You use some tools that you have no idea what they did or do
 * You're kept hostage to those tools
 * Hard to troubleshoot
 * You may (or may not) be using stolen software (as they were caught doing so [1] [2] [3])
 * May break upon updates
 * Big F to your computer after that.
 * Distros: [NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL]
 * Using a premade images that have outdated software the moment you download it, may be compromised and wont benefit you in any way. So please, stay away from anything that uses premade images. It's also against this wikisrules. No help will be offered.