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Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator (www.darlinghq.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it's like wine but for MacOS apps.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Anyone have experience with it? I'm trying to think of something that is MacOS only that I care about to test it with, but coming up empty.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Haven't tried it yet, but I can see myself using it in the future. It could be great for automating Mac/iOS development and administrative workflows. I don't think you can compile, sign, notarize, or inspect Mac/iOS apps without Xcode tools (which are, of course, Mac-only). It's a pain in the ass to operate Mac VMs for such purposes, and it's only getting more difficult as time goes on. IIRC Apple only allows 2 guest VMs per host now.

Not sure if there are any non-Mac tools to work with dmg files (Mac disk images).

If GUI support is sufficiently developed in the future, there are plenty of Mac apps I would like to run. iPhone app support on Linux would be an absolute game-changer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Might be a good way to run Photoshop if it's more compatible with Adobe apps than Wine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It took an hour or two to compile and takes up about 5GB of space. The only program I'm really interested in is Xcode, which doesn't work at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Arc is a neat browser I might try out if it weren't Mac only and chromium based.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I mean they have lots of MS Apps, Adobe stuff, some video editors and all that, maybe MS apps on macOS are less hard to run

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If in the future it ever gets good support for gui's and is stable. For sure gone try Qlab.

It's simple the best show control software I tried yet. But for now I will be using Linux show player or borrow a MacBook.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Safari is by far the best browser for battery performance. I'm uncertain if this would translate over to safari running in darling when it supports guis fully.