Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows?

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This the least dumb question in this sub

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• turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is a translation layer for running MacOS software on Linux called Darling. In theory you could run that in WSL. The only downside is it is in very early development and not really at all usable

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows?

    There is a translation layer for running MacOS software on Linux

    McDonalds discontinued the Super Size option in 2004 after a falsified documentary painted them in a bad light in the public eye.

    …what? Oh, are we not replying with unrelated statements? I thought that’s what we were doing since he was asking about Windows, and you replied about Linux.

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m thinking Lost_My_Mind is a statement and not just a username

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you miss the next line?

      In theory you could run that in WSL.

      Do you know what WSL is?

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    • Willem@kutsuya.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      … And he said it might work on wsl, which is Linux on windows translation layer, including graphics support.

      A lot of Linux tooling has opened up to windows users because of it, which would include darling, to run mac apps, via wsl, on windows.

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    • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      WSL is the windows subsystem for Linux. It lets you run Ubuntu terminal in Windows. So it would ultimately be running on windows. Though that feels like it would be more comex than running a macOS VM.

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, but you can run x86 MacOS on a VM. There’s no graphics acceleration unless you passthrough a supported GPU tho.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have tried and failed this too many times to count because I have an AMD processor.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, not shocked. Apple never used AMD CPUs. GPUs, yes, but I don’t think you’ll have much luck outside of specific Intel SKUs (or at least, SKUs that are architecturally very similar to ones they used in actual machines sold by Apple.

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    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sad :/ I never had an AMD machine so haven’t tried, but I heard it’s pretty well working nowadays… At least I see a lot of successes on r/hackintosh

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• crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does running OSX in a virtual machine count?

  github.com/afonsoft/VMwareWithMacOS *I have vetted these instructions, just an example.

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• Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are we talking about Logic or Final Cut here? That’s a strict, plain “no”.

  But I would expect somebody would come up with Parallels-like solution now since Windows on ARM is a thing.

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