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Frankly I think these days a Linux based emulator like Wine would be a smarter decision .
by IWeldMelons 3y ago
Frankly I think these days a Linux based emulator like Wine would be a smarter decision .
- krylon 3y agoI vaguely recall reading about a project trying to achieve just that on HN a while back. Unfortunately, that is all I remember about it. Back then, it apparently was not quite there, yet, but that must have been at least five years ago, so the situation might be a lot better today.
- jdiff 3y agoUnfortunately not. Darling [0] is still at the point that it can only run command line applications. Only the most basic GUI applications are supported. That's still a massive accomplishment that I don't want to diminish, but it's nowhere near the point that WINE was at even quite a long time ago. [0] https://www.darlinghq.org/ https://www.darlinghq.org/
- krylon 3y agoI would imagine with Wine the number of people interested to see Windows applications run under Linux/BSD/etc is significantly larger than with macOS/Darling.
- hospitalJail 3y agoReally goes to show the demand of exclusive MacOS software. To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux. Windows is a bit different.
- yakubin 3y ago> To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux. That's true only for CLI apps. My most frequently used GUI apps on Mac: - MailMate - Affinity Photo - ACDSee Photo Studio - NetNewsWire - ApolloOne - Textual - Transmit - iA Writer None of them are available on Linux. Most of them are Mac-only (i.e. no Windows version either).
- n9 3y agothat's a pretty wild assertion. I'm immediately thinking of music software: 99% of all plugins, the #1-4 DAWs, drivers for 2/3 of all hardware, at least... not on linux.
- n9 3y agoAlso... Preview is not available on any other platform and is, imo, the single best executed application of all time.
- Xerox9213 3y agoAbsolutely. It's the only PDF editor that holds a candle to Acrobat Pro.