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Add warnings to root patcher

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Mykola Grymalyuk
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**macOS** | Apple's own UNIX based OS used for Mac machines and "What makes a Mac a Mac".
**Windows** | Microsoft's proprietary OS that is used and supported on a wide range of devices (stay with this OS if you don't want headaches)
**macOS** | Apple's own UNIX based OS used for Mac machines and "What makes a Mac a Mac".
**Windows** | Microsoft's proprietary OS that is used and supported on a wide range of devices (stay with this OS if you don't want headaches)
**Linux** | Family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution. Note that while macOS and Linux may be UNIX-based, they're vastly different.
**Bootloader** | Piece of software that loads an OS, usually made by the OS creators. OpenCore is technically not a bootloader per se (see boot manager explanation down below). Apple's Boot.efi would be the actual boot loader in a Mac.
**Boot Manager** | Piece of software that manages bootloaders – we have many of these: Clover, systemd-boot, OpenCore, rEFInd, rEFIt... These are generally seen as prepping the system for the actual boot loader.
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**KernelCollection** | Also known as the ImmutableKernel and PrelinkedKernel, this is a bundle of the kernel(XNU) and kernel extensions(Kexts) that we use to boot macOS. This is also what OpenCore patches in memory to allow us to have a seamless experience <br/>- PrelinkedKernel: Default caching system since 10.7 <br/>- ImmutableKernel: Secure Boot based caching system since 10.13 <br/>- KernelCollection: Merge of both Prelinked and ImmutableKernel's since macOS 11, Big Sur
**IOKit** | Backbone of how Kernel Extentions (Kexts) probe and attach onto hardware, starts quickly after kernel initates
**WindowServer** | Backbone of the GUI interface in macOS, one of the first userfacing userspace programs to kick-in
**OTA** | Short for **O**ver **T**he **A**ir, refers to native OS updates via System Preferences like a supported Mac
**DELTA** | Often used with OTA, refers to OS updates that much smaller than full installers (generally ~3GB), note Deltas require the root volume to be unmotified otherwise ~12GB updates will occur.
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