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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] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm a Windows user so this is even less relevant to me, but I can't think of a single program or application I would even want that's only on Mac.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Garageband. Sadly it's my favorite DAW. I've tried many alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

raycast, shottr, sketch, logic, final cut, motion, ia writer, things3, xcode

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only one of those I've ever heard of is Final Cut and I have Premier Pro already. I'm going to assume I can get a pretty solid alternative for any of the rest as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I use Kdenlive for video editing. It's been awesome for my purposes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh come on, we could have lived in a world where the translation layers are called WINE and DINE!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How petty would it be to make a fork of it just to rename it to DINE?

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

The right kind of petty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool. Do you know if this project will support PowerPC-era Mac OS X apps or if that makes any difference? There are a bunch of quirky and fun games that could avoid being lost to time if an "emulator" can run them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

for those not familiar, this basically lets you run command line tools. anything with a GUI will not work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything starts somewhere, but I wonder what macOS cli’s are the target for this tool that doesn’t have a Linux equivalent

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

CLI's are likely not specifically the target. I suspect the CLI is just the "low hanging fruit" and core set of software that needs to be supported before you build up to a fully functional GUI apps.

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