alt Hacker NewsAbsolutely love seeing these projects that put a friendly face on amazing open source software so people can more easily run Linux and use the software they still need to..
Any similar work underway to get macOS apps running on Linux?
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d3Xt3r • yesterday at 8:10 PM
Not quite similar, but there's darling, which only supports CLI apps for now: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
If you want a full macOS VM there's dockur's project: https://github.com/dockur/macos but no seamless mode support yet.
heavyset_go • today at 1:45 AM
macOS doesn't support doing rootless RDP with macOS apps. If you're going to be using a full desktop anyway, skip RDP entirely and use an accelerated graphics view.
I wish it was possible to see macOS running well on Linux, but there are a lot of loopholes to jump through to make that happen.
1. Apple makes running their software on non-Mac hardware illegal
2. For all the hate Windows gets, virtualizing it to run all over the place is normal and expected by industry at large… the same is only becoming recently true for macOS
3. There is a strong financial interest at Apple to get in the way of this as much as possible
4. Apple is trying to reinvent Docker so people stop using Docker on their Mac’s with their native “Apple Containers” implementation
Due to this… I foresee it taking a while for this to become common for mac apps + Linux