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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] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For software that’s currently available on both Windows and MacOS, how does the performance of the Windows version under Wine compare to the MacOS version under Darling?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Wine is much, much better at this point. In particular, Darling doesn’t have much support for GUIs yet, so unless it is a command line tool you probably want to stick with Wine.

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

I imagine if Darling gets as well supported it would be better. But it will not be optimized as much, even though the core architecture may be way more similar