What is the difference between opencore and clover?

Question

hackintosh

Explain to the ignorant in this matter the difference between opencore and clover? What is better, more stable, simpler, hassle-free, etc.

Answer 1

Clover is an older project. Accordingly, there is more information and successful experience on it.
Opencore is a rethinking of the accumulated experience, so you need to start with it. To get started, read https://dortania.github.io/getting-started/ , then choose compatible hardware and everything will be fine for the coming years. And there, the hackintosh may already die due to the transition of makosi to proprietary processors.

Answer 2

I will quote a user from the applelife forum, with which I agree:

I also once argued with Vit about all this, but here we get a clash of two essentially different approaches:
1. "Let's learn how to boot macOS from a non-Apple-HW computing environment" (Clover)
2. "Let's bring a non-Apple computing environment -HW is so close to Apple-HW that macOS will boot there by itself" (OpenCore).
This is where the legs of almost all disputes grow from, with arguments on the one hand in the form of "it is more convenient for us to patch, and DSDT can only be applied to macOS", and the other - "but bless works fine for us, and the panels in BootCamp".
I myself believe that the first approach is more correct, but the authors of the OC read differently, and have every right to continue to think so.