I created this repo for the following reasons:

1. Overcoming language barriers: Clover's official documentation (PDF, 182 pages) is only available in Russian.
2. Condensing information and presenting it in a modern way, making use of GitHub and Markdown. It's also much more focused on documenting the actual features since it disregards the personal anecdotal remarks that the official documentation contains.
3. Consolidating and unifying resources which are scattered all over the internet: the manual is only available in Russian on GitHub, the changelog is only available at insanelymac and the Clover Wiki had been neglected for years until it finally got integrated (but not updated) into Clover's GitHub Repo in 2022 (after I started Clover Crate).
4. Exemplifying Clover's features using Clover Configurator: Acidanthera and Dortania did such an amazing job on documenting OpenCore that I though it was about time Clover gets something that at least documents its features and how to use themproperly.

The information provided in this repository is based on excerpts of the official Russian documentation for Clover using AI-based translation tools (deepl, google and yandex translate) as well as my own extensive research. The translations were reviewed and redacted afterwards, so that they follow the rules of English grammar and spelling while preserving their meanings. Nevertheless, some details may have been lost in translation (although I doubt it).

The methods and techniques presented in this repo are based on utilizing the official Clover release and its features alongside Kexts, SSDTs, Device Properties and other tools to enable/disable devices and features in macOS to get aproper working system which is ACPI conform!

Clover-Crate does not consider patching theDSDT anappropriate measure to get the "Real Vanilla Hackintosh" experience and therefore does not support nor promote patching theDSDT. In fact, it's quite the opposite, as explainedhere:

MaLd0n's implications that you need a custom DSDT to add and remove (well, remove yes, but disabling is good enough in virtually all cases) devices isincorrect. Aside from those claims, most device rename changes (probably also things you considered „missing“) are also not needed, as they are performed by Lilu and its plug-ins. This approach is a lot safer than previous ACPI renames as dumb find-replace patches can yield false positives, the kext approach cannot.