OCLP Use as Daily Driver Questions

[macuser9911]

Hi All,

This is my first post so pardon for the lack of detail if there is!

I recently installed Sonoma via OCLP on my mbp pro 2016 due to Monterrey going out of support last year. I want to use this as my daily driver for things such as email, online banking and potentially online purchases as well.

After reading a few forums I found people saying to not use it due to SIP being lowered and potential exposure online. Others say they are using it and no issues. I avoid any risky sites and mainly use Brave as my browser.


I would love to hear from the community your thoughts on the below questions:

1. Is OCLP safe for daily driver or to use for online banking?
2. If not safe, is there an alternative to still use my macbook safely for online banking? (i.e Remove OCLP and install Linux?)
3. If using OCLP for the latest os patches vulnerabilities from unsupported macs, what are the risks of using OCLP?
4. Signing into apple account safe?

Thank you so much.

 

[bogdanw]

In my opinion, install Linux.
Dedicated Sonoma OCLP thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-14-sonoma-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2391630/
Security for OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher) https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/security-for-oclp-opencore-legacy-patcher.2406586/

 

[Minghold]

Is OCLP safe for daily driver....

If the "given" of your question involves a version of the OS that Apple is still releasing updates for, then the answer is an emphatic NO. Reason: updates can and will upset OCLP's giant collection of carefully balanced spinning plates on poles, and one or more things will suddenly stop working. Such as hardware-acceleration (which will cause, say, Final Cut to simply refuse to open), or your laptop's wifi to glitch out (so much for online banking, or anything else).

-- This isn't a hypothetical either, as the latest version of OCLP (2.3.2 as of posting) does not correctly implement either the "intel ivy bridge" or "modern networking" patches to either the oldest (14.7.2) or the newest (14.7.5) version of Sonoma it has available for download.

Want to be safe online? Stay with your old OS, and power-kick Safari off the dock, to be replaced by any of a half-dozen far better browsers.

 

[BrianBaughn]

This is one of those cases where "what I'd do" and "what I'd recommend" are two different things.