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Nice. Off topic, but does anyone know of any good IINA alternatives for Linux? I have not found anything that beats it in terms of polish. VLC is nice, but IINA does one thing really well, and is based on MPV, with all of its powerful configuration options and nice keybinds.
I've never used IINA, but I'm wondering why you don't just use mpv on Linux? I've been using mpv for years and I've never had any issues with it.
Perfect timing for me. Macbook Pro 2017 logic board died and can't get it in for repair due to shutdowns. So installed Linux Mint on Thinkpad T420. This will help me a lot, I'd be pleased if I could make a permanent shift from Mac. Is this something Apple is likely to try and break constantly with software updates?
TLDR; "Does it support GUI apps? Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications."
Of course, it might be possible to re-use macOS' frameworks, but Apple would probably sue anyone who tries to offer that into oblivion.
BTW. I think this is a great project, but there are some people who seem to be rooting for using this for running Creative Suite on Linux. That won't happen anytime soon, if ever. Wine is your best shot.
> The name Darling is a combination of “Darwin” and “Linux”. I'm sorry, what? How?
Nice. Off topic, but does anyone know of any good IINA alternatives for Linux? I have not found anything that beats it in terms of polish. VLC is nice, but IINA does one thing really well, and is based on MPV, with all of its powerful configuration options and nice keybinds.
I've never used IINA, but I'm wondering why you don't just use mpv on Linux? I've been using mpv for years and I've never had any issues with it.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_(software)
This seems like it's a big deal.
Does this work with Safari? It would be very useful for cross browser testing.
After learning of the existence of a bunch of compatibility layers, I'm now occasionally pining for a Linux→Mac one. Because dealing with BSD software, aka ‘unknown option --help’, is a source of irritation sometimes. Plus there's actually open-source Linux software that doesn't have open-source analogs on Mac (not that I'll remember right now what it was). But then again, Linux has /proc and a boatload of common API…
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On the other hand, it's a bit weird that Darling requires a kernel module. Given the name (darling-mach) I guess it's doing something to make Linux look more like XNU, but it's surprising that the Darling team has to do that within Linux itself (given that Wine is apparently able to make Linux look like NT in userspace).
Not sure it's the underlying reason, but for a long while Go would use raw syscalls on Darwin, which is something that Windows has explicitly sabotaged for ages. It's a lot easier to trap a library call from userspace than a syscall.