A Hackintosh enthusiast has managed to get a version of macOS Sequoia running on Valve's Steam Deck handheld gaming device in an exercise they admit is "pointless."

A hacker going by whatdahopper on X recently showed off footage of the Steam Deck booting into macOS Sequoia. It's an impressive technical feat, made possible

The subsequent big Hackintosh distribution may end up being for Valve's Steam Deck for all devices—at least according to an October 3 tweet from whatdahopper on Twitter, which showcased a very early version of a Hackintosh macOS X Sequoia recovery dialog displayed on Steam Deck.

OS Sequoia was successfully installed on the Steam Deck with a group effort. While it may seem pointless now, future GPU acceleration may make running macOS on Steam Deck more practical. The installation was done because "why not,