darling VS website

There is actually a Wine-like transplier called Darling. The problem is that development is very slow because there is not as much need for MacOS programs on Linux, and there is a huge shortage of volunteers and manpower. And it has been rendered almost obsolete because Apple moved to ARM. Additionally 90% of Apple's API is closed source despite Apple claiming to champion open source.

There's https://www.darlinghq.org/ , but it's much less mature and less capable than Wine, today. There are a variety of reasons for that. One of them is that Wine started much earlier, in 1993, vs in 2012. One of them is that there's a much larger library of existing Win32 software, which tends to mean that there's more interest in providing a compatible runtime for that software. And one is simply that there are commercial vendors like Valve working on Wine in order to ensure that Microsoft can't lock them into a platform like Apple's App Store and demand a significant percentage of all sales as Apple does for iOS.

Unfortunately 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/

xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488

There is a "Wine but for MacOS" https://www.darlinghq.org/, though we've never actually used it since it unfortunately doesn't support aarch64.

Is only working for Windows and Linux at the moment (although Darling could be promising of OSX)

I hear you, but they've all moved along in leaps and bounds. Some options if you ever look again -

* ElementaryOS(https://elementary.io/)

I would suggest installing elementaryOS inside a VM, and follow their getting started guide

Elementary OS e un distro de Linux cu aspect de macos

It warms my heart seeing all my fellow linux users here! 😊 I personally use elementary OS because the desktop is pretty 🥺. Also, the lead of the project is a trans woman!

If you want a modern Mac-like, check out elementary: https://elementary.io/

fourthly: did the updates on the elementary.io pop shop, had quite the Pop_OS system updates and, brave browser and signal desktop

Try elementaryOS. https://elementary.io/. It has a good ui on top of Linux. If your needs are more server based try Debian. Or if you want a Decent ui use Ubuntu. Personally I find Ubuntu’s snaps annoying but ymmv.

ElementaryOS: https://elementary.io/

Gaming mode's universal overlay is a pretty neat innovation that justifies the Deck going full Wayland, but even on my Deck, I'm actively looking into getting Pantheon, Budgie or MATE running in a rootful Xwayland so I don't have to use Plasma give up the ...-managed settings (display refresh rate, TDP cap, etc.) while working from a full desktop environment.