Mint App Mac Apps On

Mint App Mac Apps On

To run Mac apps on Linux, youll need some sort of virtual machine or translation layer.

With a free, open-source hypervisor application like VirtualBox, you can run macOS on a virtual device on your Linux machine.

A properly-installed virtualized macOS environment will run all macOS apps without issue.

For machines with the technical specs, virtualizing an operating systems through a VirtualBox virtual machine is the best option.

This works like WINE, which creates a Windows-to-Linux translation environment that allows you to run some Windows applications on Linux systems.

Darling tries to accomplish the same goal between macOS and Linux.

Because macOS and Linux both share the same UNIX-style base, Darling is less resource-intensive than WINE, producing better results in more circumstances.

While GUI app support is a goal for the project, the feature hasnt yet been implemented.

Basically, you can run a macOS shell in Terminal reliably and may or may not be able to run other apps effectively.

Its essentially duplicating the functionality of the macOS operating system.

So, if you worry about remote executables corrupting your system, you might want to avoid a package of this size.

This uses the darling command prefix to launch a macOS shell environment.

Running the commands without connecting to Darling wont work.

If you want to run an app from the Mac App Store, copy the.app file to Applications on your Linux machine then launching it through Darlings shell commands.

To explore Darlings capabilities, check out the projects What To Try page.

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