Planned Obsolescence? I’ll Do It on My Own Terms!

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THIS GUIDE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, IT VIOLATES MULTIPLE EULAS, THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND POSSIBLY OTHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS. YOUR WARRANTY IS NOW VOID. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BRICKED DEVICES, DEAD SD CARDS, THERMONUCLEAR WAR, OR YOU GETTING FIRED BECAUSE THE ALARM APP FAILED. PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS. YOU ARE CHOOSING TO MAKE THESE MODIFICATIONS, AND IF YOU POINT THE FINGER AT ME FOR MESSING UP YOUR DEVICE, I WILL LAUGH AT YOU!

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Prologue

So a while back I successfully triple-booted Arch Linux, macOS Sonoma, and Windows 11 on a single, 480GB SSD. A lot of people asked how I achieved this and that so I decided to make this somewhat thorough guide on how to do it. Before getting started, I assume you are familiar with how basic stuff like torrents work and are not uncomfortable with the terminal interface since we are going to tinker with it a lot in this guide.

Setup


Create a folder on your spare computer, for this guide lets call it tripleboot everything we will do on our spare computer throughout this guide will happen here.

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Note that I am using a MacBook Air M2 in this guide, if you are using Windows some/most UNIX terminal commands wont work. I suggest installing something like Busybox, I haven't tested it though so I won't guarantee everything will work exactly as expected.

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My Specs


What You Need