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In a word: no. But there are caveats. Since Linux is all open-source, many things from Linux get ported to work on Mac. This even applies to wine and mono (although in my experience, many ported Linux apps are older neither wine or mono work was well on Mac as they do on Linux). Likewise, there is a project called Darling which tries to let you run Mac applications on Linux similar to how Wine lets you run Windows apps. I haven't looked at it in some time but last I had checked, it didn't work as well as Wine does... And for all their amazing efforts, Wine isn't perfect either.
It sounds like there might also be at least some support for portable Linux formats on Mac: snap appears to allow installing on mac via brew, but it sounds like appimages and flatpaks cannot run on mac. that said, i haven't used snaps on mac nor have I ever heard of anyone who does so... so no clue if they work well there.
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