I dont want to pay for crossover, does PlayOnMac do basically the same thing for free?

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  • macos-crossover-wine-cloud-builder

    Build CrossOver FOSS mac application in the cloud ⛅ (by Depal1)

  • Since everyone's just telling you to use bootcamp and you currently haven't, I'm just gonna assume you only want to use Wine or a free VM app. Personally, I wouldn't recommend PlayOnMac. Firstly, because it has low compatibility. Secondly, it's pretty outdated and doesn't get updated often and thirdly, because it has a low userbase. Instead I would recommend using Wineskin or Porting Kit since they both use the CrossOver engines. Alternatively you can build CrossOver from the source (or you can download it pre-built: https://github.com/Depal1/macos-crossover-wine-cloud-builder/releases/). Keep in mind that FOSS CrossOver is a CLI app. Hope this helps!

  • WineskinServer

    Wineskin

  • You can use PortingKit, PlayOnMac or set it up yourself using https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer. I've done all of that and for the most part it works alright, and in a way these are all the same solutions and they all use CrossOver's wine fork.

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