MacOS, the operating system previously known as Mac OS X, is beautiful, stable, and typically attached to a $1000+ MacBook / iMac. If we want to run macOS on a Windows PC, without the very particular hardware required for Hackintosh, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the next best thing. And, best of all, it won't cost a dime. Here's how to install the latest macOS High Sierra on a VMware or Virtualbox virtual machine.

Unblock any international website, browse anonymously, and download movies and Mp3 with complete safety with CyberGhost,. Then again, we might just be curious about Apple's operating system and want to see what the fuss is all about. Whatever the reason, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the cheapest way to try out the latest OS from Cupertino. Cheapest as in 'free.' Sure beats buying a four-figure MacBook Pro. In case you are not familiar with virtual machines, it's a way to emulate an entirely different computer system within our PC. For more information, you can check out our guide: We have also covered how to create a Windows Virtual Machine, both in Windows and Linux operating systems.

The APT is the tool, commonly used to install packages, remotely from the software repository. In short it's a simple command based tool that you use to install files/softwares. Complete command is apt-get and it's the easiest way to install files/Softwares packages.

Creating a Windows virtual machine is exceedingly simple. It is arguably easier than installing Windows on our PC.

Should you install Linux on a Mac? Some Linux users have found that Apple's Mac computers work well for them. The combination of and Linux can result in a high quality operating system on a relatively low cost computer.

But is it worth it to install Linux on a Mac? A writer at Softpedia considered that very question in a recent article. Marius Nestor reports for Softpedia: [ The InfoWorld review:. ] Many of you will want to install Linux on a Mac out of curiosity, but the sad truth is that you'll end up asking all over the Internet how to remove it, because, in many cases, it won't recognize some of the hardware components of your Mac computer. So, we're back from where we started, if you're not a skilled hacker or computer enthusiast who knows how to optimize a Linux kernel and other core components for specific Mac hardware, you should not bother installing a Linux distro in the first place.

Mac OS X is a great operating system, so if you bought a Mac, stay with it. If you really need to have a Linux OS alongside OS X and you know what you're doing, install it, otherwise get a different, cheaper computer for all your Linux needs. I myself have a regular computer where I am dual booting Arch Linux and Mac OS X. Some of you out there might call it a Hackintosh, but I like to call it a Linuxtosh. Softpedia readers had their own thoughts to share about the virtues of combining Linux with Mac hardware: Skunxoi: 'I've been using Mac computers for the last 10 years now.

Mac is a very good OS, but I personally like Linux better. I have my Macs dual booted with Xubuntu, and I hardly go back to Mac.

I guess it all depends what do you want to do.' Steve: 'I can't speak for anyone else, but I've installed Linux on my MacBook (dual boot) purely because I liked the hardware. I only use the Mac for Video editing.

Linux for everything else. I also have a top spec gaming laptop running Linux (never thought I'd ever say gaming and Linux in the same sentence!). The MacBook is my 'Take anywhere' machine because it's durable and can run both the operating systems I need and battery life is amazing. In the future though, when my MacBook hardware dies, it looks like I may be buying a Pureism Librem 13.

Finally free hardware has caught up. At a fraction of the cost. Linux is even getting better at video editing.' Bogdan: 'As you said, curiosity is the reason, but you forgot to mention one alternative: virtualization! I use free software -Virtualbox in order to learn how to use Linux. It works great on my Mac!'

Jeremy: 'Your hypothesis is somewhat flawed by the fact that you don't specify whether you are talking about NEW Mac hardware, or hardware which is no longer supported by current versions of OS X. I would not hesitate to replace OS X with Linux once my older MacBook Pro goes unsupported by Apple. I'd rather run a new version of Linux on the hardware than to be unable to get security updates from Apple.' Embedded: 'There are enough 'quirks' in OS X to make doing cross dev not pretty. Easier to fire up VB with FC21 and got to town. Besides: I build an entire setup (kernel + busybox + apps/utilities/etc) on my MPB 15' using 8G, 2 cores, and running from USB3 external HDD and it builds in half the time our virtual network servers w/Xeon cores.'