Ventura-drop

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+With OpenCore Legacy Patcher 0.5.0, support for macOS Ventura has been implemented for Metal capable Macs.
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+## Newly dropped hardware
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+Ventura's release yet again dropped a huge amount of Intel hardware, requiring support for the following models to be added into OpenCore Legacy Patcher:
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+* iMac16,1 (21.5-inch, Late 2015)
+* iMac16,2 (21.5-inch 4K, Late 2015)
+* iMac17,1 (27-inch 5K, Late 2015)
+* MacBook9,1 (12-inch, Early 2016)
+* MacBookAir7,1 (11-inch, Early 2015)
+* MacBookAir7,2 (13-inch, Early 2015)
+* MacBookPro11,4 (15-inch, Mid 2015, iGPU)
+* MacBookPro11,5 (15-inch, Mid 2015, dGPU)
+* MacBookPro12,1 (13-inch, Early 2015)
+* MacBookPro13,1 (13-inch, Late 2016)
+* MacBookPro13,2 (13-inch, Late 2016)
+* MacBookPro13,3 (15-inch, Late 2016)
+* MacPro6,1 (Late 2013)
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+## Current issues
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+For the most part, Ventura is usable on all Metal supported Macs, having only a few minor issues. Refer to [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/998#issuecomment-1222926337) to see up-to-date information about issues with Ventura. Currently the only machine unable to boot is the Mac Pro Late 2013, having an issue with display initialization. More information [here](https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/2126).
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+## Non-Metal support
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+Apple has changed the graphics stack significantly to support new features (such as Stage Manager) by adding a new layer called WindowManager, breaking all previous patches. 
+Therefore an estimated time for non-Metal support cannot be provided, as this has created a much greater challenge.
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+## Pre-AVX2.0
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+OpenCore Legacy Patcher fully supports booting and updates on these machines, a way to implement automatic dyld cache swap was added.