Darling is a translation layer that allows us to run macOS applications on Linux. It emulates a complete Darwin environment, including Mach, dyld, launchd and everything you’d expect. It lets you to instantly switch to a Bash shell and start running the applications built for macOS in your Linux system.

Like Wine, it can be a lot quicker to run a single application this way, instead of booting a VM up. But it is early days for Darling still, and it is not as mature as Wine, so is mostly still running non-GUI apps. The developers of Darling are planning to build a nice and user-friendly GUI for interacting with Darling. But for now, we can interact with Darling via command line only.

See https://ostechnix.com/run-macos-software-on-linux-using-darling/

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  • GadgeteerZAOP
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    3 years ago

    Yes the article is quite clear that these are early days and no fancy GUI apps yet. Some simple GUI apps like some system utils are apparently running.