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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows?

There is a translation layer for running MacOS software on Linux

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…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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m thinking Lost_My_Mind is a statement and not just a username

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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- turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  She, but yeah. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but it is technically a way to run a small subset of macos software on windows without a VM, just using multiple compatibility layers instead
  
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  - rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    IIRC, WSL is a VM, albeit one tightly integrated and very fast.
    
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    turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I thought WSL1 was a compatibility layer and 2 was a VM and they were both still supported? Is WSL 1 gone now?
    
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just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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