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EDIT: It says "some" GUI apps are working / experimental, so probably Messages is not there yet, just curious if anyone has tried.
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You missed the point. You typically don't have to compile anything for your sound card, assuming you even have one anyone considering that motherboards have had integrated sound forever now.
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They don't make people compile their own drivers because their respective corporations spend some good money to pay their developers to work on company provided hardware, or harware manufacturers to make their drivers first, and sometimes only their drivers. Linux developers otoh are often forced to reverse engineer closed source drivers on hardware they purchased themselves, so Linux support usually comes later.
The upside is that nearly all Linux drivers are FOSS, which makes a huge difference as there's no such thing as planned obsolescence among FOSS. Never seen a perfectly good peripheral being supported by Windows until version x, so that you install Windows 10 and that card that worked fantastic under Windows 7 or 8 isn't supported anymore? No drivers, no party. Sometimes the price to pay for running an OS that doesn't allow you compile your drivers is the purchase of new hardware along with system upgrades; that represents one of the hidden costs of closed source software that should be stressed more often.
Edit: ...and btw, it's like 15 years I don't have to compile my kernels anymore. A couple things or so have changed since 1997.
I assume this is not command line only? If so, you really need some screenshots.
I suggest actually reading the page since it has the answer to your question. TL;DR: GUI almost working. I assume screenshots will be added when it is.
Related unrelated comment. Is there any effort to make Darwin itself user friendly? Everything I've heard anecdotally is that Darwin is a world of hurt unless you really, really know what you're doing. It seems like that might be a slightly easier path towards having an open-source OS that can run mac apps than building a whole compatibility layer over Linux.
Good luck with supporting Mac GUIs. It's a constantly shifting target. Carbon is gone, but now Cocoa isn't always Cocoa because you also have to support SwiftUI, which is itself a moving target.
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> Having Linux run iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows applications running would be nothing less than mind-boggling, and would finally get people to stop yelling that nothing runs on Linux Nothing will stop those people from yelling that, because it hasn't been true in a very long time and that doesn't stop them. These are the same people who say they don't want to run Linux because they don't want to compile their sou…
To get my bluetooth adapter to work I had to find a third-party driver, compile it, and manually setup DKMS so it'll update whenever a new kernel gets installed. That's a much more complicated process that either macOS or Windows.
Especially when the process on macOS or Windows is that they do not support that bluetooth adapter, they will never support it, and you should just buy a different one.
I do my hardware compatibility checking before I buy. If I'm going to have to track down and compile drivers, it's my punishment for wanting a bleeding edge thing, and I always know what I'm getting into.
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> Having Linux run iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows applications running would be nothing less than mind-boggling, and would finally get people to stop yelling that nothing runs on Linux Nothing will stop those people from yelling that, because it hasn't been true in a very long time and that doesn't stop them. These are the same people who say they don't want to run Linux because they don't want to compile their sou…
> because they don't want to compile their sound card drivers I literally had to do this to get my sound card working on a new laptop recently. I know it is partially my fault for choosing such a new laptop and expecting Linux to work on it, but still... it's not an unreasonable expectation to have in 2022.