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Benefits and Drawbacks between OpenCore Legacy Patcher and other patchers
With OpenCore Legacy Patcher we recommend users go through the below table to understand what the benefits and drawbacks are compared to other patchers. There are positive and negatives to each and we feel transparency is most important when patching another users machine. There should be no grey areas where users may be mislead.
| Features | OpenCore Legacy Patcher | Patched Sur |
|---|---|---|
| Over The Air Updates | Native System Preferences, additionally supports Deltas (~2GB) for Metal GPUs | Inside Patcher Sur app (~12GB), only available when InstallAssistants release |
| FileVault | Supported on Metal GPUs | Not supported |
| System Integrity Protection | Fully enabled on Metal GPUs | Disabled for early 2013 and older |
| APFS Snapshots | Fully enabled | Disabled |
| User facing | TUI interface | SwiftUI interface, more user friendly |
| Supported OSes | 10.7-11 | 10.15-11 |
| Firmware Patching | None required | Required for models without native APFS support |
| BootCamp Switching | Requires EFI Conversion for Start Disk support, otherwise still supported | Native |
| Brightness Control on Legacy GPUs | Not supported | Supported |
| WPA Wifi Support | Native, stable | Unstable |
| Legacy GPU Acceleration | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Brightness Control on Legacy GPUs | Coming soon | Supported |
| HEVC/H.265 Support for Mac Pros and iMacs with Polaris+ GPUs | Supported | Not supported |
| Big Sur-styled Boot Picker | Available | Not available |
| El Capitan-era Wifi cards | Supported | Not supported |
| Hibernation Support | Not available (Partially broken for some) | Supported |