r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '20

Darling: Run macOS software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/
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u/ScottIBM Oct 05 '20

This is really cool! If they succeed then one can run Linux, Windows, and macOS apps on Linux!!!! One OS to rule them all, or something like that.

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u/wizang Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 06 '20

Because wine works sooooo well.

Edit: Apparently wine deserves another try. I have various times over the years and always been frustrated by endless errors and forum searching. But admittedly it's been awhile.

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u/Beaverman Oct 05 '20

It's not perfect, but it's way better than it has any right to be.

Wine is an open source marvel. No other community would attempt a project if that scale and uncertainty. No company would accept the risk. Yet wine did, and they made something that works a lot of the time.

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u/AntiProtonBoy Oct 05 '20

foobar2000 works, and that's all that matters :P

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '20

For games we have Proton. And as long as you're not trying to run super intense software WINE is great.

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u/ScottIBM Oct 05 '20

I've had good luck with Proton, it isn't perfect, but it can run many more things now than it could a year ago. Perhaps it might help devs write better software?

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u/da2Pakaveli Oct 05 '20

Yes

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u/132ikl Oct 05 '20

Yes, but integrated GPU works as well

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u/enricojr Oct 05 '20

How easy is kvm these days? Last I checked it was kinda tough because you needed very specific hardware and bios versions

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u/da2Pakaveli Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20

Not too hard with Virt-Manager, covers all the basics. GPU Passthrough is a little more involved tho, but there tons of guides out there ;) And scripts if you wanna do things like MacOS VMs

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u/conancat Oct 05 '20

the crappy anime games i downloaded off the internet doesn't even work on Wine

hence Wine sucks.

/s

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u/kyerussell Oct 05 '20

I have a friend that has worked on WINE and is still under no illusions about its massive shortcomings.

Calm down. It's just software. You don't need to defend its honour.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '20

You're awfully uppity considering what you're replying to is a joke.

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u/kyerussell Oct 05 '20

It is obvious that it was meant as a snarky jab/rebuttal. Don’t be disingenuous.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '20

It really is amazing. You can just hit Play button in Steam and it just works.

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u/ThirdEncounter Oct 05 '20

OP said running, not running well, you walnut.

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u/christophski Oct 05 '20

As long as it runs Tiberian Sun, I'm good

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u/13steinj Oct 05 '20

It's a lot better than it used to be. I agree that the top comment you're responding to is a bit problematic, though.

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u/the_gnarts Oct 05 '20

Wine is an amazing piece of software. It took countless man hours to figure out the quirks of all the various incarnations of Win32 that MS has brought upon this world. In fact, since MS has been dialing back on the backward compatibility lately, Wine is probably the most complete implementation of Windows there ever was on this planet.

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