# dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

> A Python-based tool built on OpenCorePkg and Lilu that lets you install and run macOS Big Sur and newer on old Macs (from 2007) no longer supported by Apple.

- Magnitude: 2.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 18,425 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-05, 10:59–12:36 UTC, ≈ 11 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Python · Created: 2020-11-24 · Last push: 2026-10-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher · Homepage: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

## Useful for

- Install macOS Big Sur or newer on an old Mac unsupported by Apple
- Enable graphics acceleration on legacy Metal and non-Metal GPUs
- Restore Wi-Fi and Touch ID functionality on 2007–2017 models

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-05 (UTC), 10:59–12:36: 18423 → 18425 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +11 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3.4× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +21 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @martinmarinov (226 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,010
- Issues and pull requests: 1,161
- Watchers: 848
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 8 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: 3.0.0-rc.2 (2026-10-04)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-06 … 2026-10-05: 12, 6, 15, 26, 10, 10, 19, 14, 9, 3, 9, 10, 11, 7, 6, 4, 10, 8, 7, 6, 4, 9, 7, 10, 5, 7, 6, 10, 38, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +21 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-05 12:40 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.