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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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

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      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.

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      1 year 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.