It works great besides you have to use the machine until it causes deficiencies in its usability. You aren't going to play games on a mac anyway most likely. Safari opens in 4 seconds on this 2014 iMac running Ventura with the patcher. Many open applications and no hang ups. The only problem is with hardware decoding but that's because of using a patcher. Apple could install Ventura by default on this Mac with the requirement of 8 gb ram and you would need a SSD of course. Luckily it came as a Fusion Drive system when I bought it with SSD system drive.