surface-pro-7-opencore VS BigSurface

I used this OpenCore configuration Thinking about writing a tutorial on how to dual-boot while still retaining a secure UEFI boot since I had to figure that one out for myself.

We have WiFi with the use of a third party TP Link dongle and chris1111's Wireless USB OpenCore Adapter, fully functional trackpad with gestures with the help of BigSurface. Also have touchscreen & stylus working with SSDT-SURFACE although do not use it*

Let me know if linking the OpenCore log files would help in determining the issue. Unknown if this makes a difference but I also using the BigSurface.kext from https://github.com/Xiashangning/BigSurface which also includes a prebuilt ACPI for the Surface models.

I made use of rchiruma's setup for Monterey on this specific model laptop, which got my foot into the process, but didn't go as designed. For one, I was able to get to the macOS installer, but both keyboard and mouse were not recognized, so I overnighted a USB keyboard and mouse to at least get the OS onboarded. Once installed, I updated the BigSurface.kext that does much of the heavy lifting, which luckily got the attached keyboard and touchpad functioning, but broke USB and Bluetooth. This was causing a painfully long boot-up (close to five minutes), but everything else was functioning at that point.

I know that the Microsoft Surface 3 has an Intel i5 and from what I have read it is compatible with MacOS. I have seen that someone has made a kext for surface BigSur.https://github.com/Xiashangning/BigSurface

This was my very first Hackintosh, it actually wasn’t nearly as hard to set up as I first thought it would be. Maybe that’s because I used to run Linux. This is the lower-end model with a Kaby Lake i5-7300u, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of onboard SSD storage. macOS is triple booted with Windows 10 and chromeOS. SMBIOS used - MacBookPro14,2 What works - Type Cover (keyboard & trackpad,) touch screen & stylus input with Surface Pen (no pressure support,) sleep, battery indicator, performance modes, and device buttons thanks to Xiashangning’s BigSurface and IPTSDaemon projects - Wi-FI via external dongle, audio with AppleALC What doesn’t work - Internal Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Current Issues - Kernel panic when Type Cover is closed and/or detached (only Ventura, also happens on reboot, known issue with BigSurface)

CPU: i5-7200U GPU: Intel Graphics 620 RAM: 8G LPDDR3 Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Surface Pro 5 (2017) Wifi/BT Card: USB Dongle Touchpad and touch display devices: BigSurface and IPTSDaemon