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I finally did it & now ashamed of my prejudice

A couple of years ago I planned to build  A Dual Boot Hackintosh  with  Windows  and  macOS.  You can read more about my hardware selections in  this  old post. But after installing macOS and configuring it for my hardware, I got sucked into the  Apple ecosystem  and did not even bother to check for windows. The Switch For over a year, I used this custom-built machine with  Linux  and  Big Sur  as my only computer. It is when I recently bought a  13" M1 MacBook Pro  on a deal, I stopped using this custom-built.  My Hackintosh was not lacking in any performance, but working from anywhere on a 13-inch lightweight easy-to-carry machine, whose battery holds for more than a day, is better than sitting or standing at a desk at a fixed place. This switch rendered my Hackintosh a bit useless. So I decided to play with windows OS. The prejudice. I had been using windows for 15 years and had a preconceived notion...

Create a window installer USB on a Mac

Let’s assume for some inexplicable reasons, we want to install the windows operating system on our machines. For this, first, we need to have a windows installer USB. Photo by  Brina Blum  on  Unsplash If you like to spend money, you can buy an original windows installer USB from  here   and skip the remaining post.  Otherwise, You can create an installer USB by yourself by performing   these step s  on a windows machine. But wait. The reason that we want to create a windows installer USB in the first place was, that we do not have a machine running windows. Like me, if you only have macOS machines then you can use the below 3 steps to create a windows installer USB. 1- Download windows ISO You can download windows ISO for free from the Microsoft  website .  1.1-  Choose the  windows edition  as follows 1.2-  Choose the language as  English 1.3-  Choose  64 bits  version 1.4-  Above step will ...