RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD

Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by IWeldMelons on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:50AM (#38486090)

Frankly I think these days a Linux based emulator like Wine would be a smarter decision .

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by krylon on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:56AM (#38486137)

I vaguely recall reading about a project trying to achieve just that on HN a while back. Unfortunately, that is all I remember about it. Back then, it apparently was not quite there, yet, but that must have been at least five years ago, so the situation might be a lot better today.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by jdiff on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:04AM (#38486210)

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/

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by krylon on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:05AM (#38487524)

I would imagine with Wine the number of people interested to see Windows applications run under Linux/BSD/etc is significantly larger than with macOS/Darling.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by hospitalJail on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:12AM (#38486859)

Really goes to show the demand of exclusive MacOS software.

To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux. Windows is a bit different.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by yakubin on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:51AM (#38488163)

> To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux.

That's true only for CLI apps. My most frequently used GUI apps on Mac:

- MailMate

- Affinity Photo

- ACDSee Photo Studio

- NetNewsWire

- ApolloOne

- Textual

- Transmit

- iA Writer

None of them are available on Linux. Most of them are Mac-only (i.e. no Windows version either).

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by n9 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:51PM (#38490631)

that's a pretty wild assertion. I'm immediately thinking of music software: 99% of all plugins, the #1-4 DAWs, drivers for 2/3 of all hardware, at least... not on linux.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by n9 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:52PM (#38490640)

Also... Preview is not available on any other platform and is, imo, the single best executed application of all time.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by Xerox9213 on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:27PM (#38491061)

Absolutely. It's the only PDF editor that holds a candle to Acrobat Pro.

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