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Very neat. All I want for Christmas is Logic on Linux. But then you’d still need a Mac to legally download it from the App Store and DRM checks would probably only work on Macs
> All I want for Christmas is Logic on Linux. Linux has a terrible audio subsystem. First you'd have to write CoreAudio for Linux, which would not be easy.
Very neat. All I want for Christmas is Logic on Linux. But then you’d still need a Mac to legally download it from the App Store and DRM checks would probably only work on Macs
> All I want for Christmas is Logic on Linux. Linux has a terrible audio subsystem. First you'd have to write CoreAudio for Linux, which would not be easy.
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If its possible to compile & and sign iOS or MacOS apps that would be VERY useful in CI environments, but yeah hard to think of other killer command-line apps that only run on MacOS. If they had good GUI support then some more things open up but nothing really essential. Garage Band has no equal in terms of ease of use, if you are into that sort of thing.
You can ship a fully signed and self-updating macOS app from Linux (or Windows) using my product Conveyor: https://hydraulic.dev/ It has built in support for Electron, JVM, Flutter and even native apps (although of course then you still have to compile the native binaries on macOS yourself). That also works the other way around. You can ship to Windows from Linux or macOS.
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If its possible to compile & and sign iOS or MacOS apps that would be VERY useful in CI environments, but yeah hard to think of other killer command-line apps that only run on MacOS. If they had good GUI support then some more things open up but nothing really essential. Garage Band has no equal in terms of ease of use, if you are into that sort of thing.
Just in case anyone is wondering - this is already possible with Clang/LLVM and the work from Gregory Szorc: https://github.com/indygreg/apple-platform-rs/tree/main The Firefox source tree has every tool available for cross-compilation from Linux → macOS, which is how Firefox is built for macOS.
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You can ship a fully signed and self-updating macOS app from Linux (or Windows) using my product Conveyor: https://hydraulic.dev/ It has built in support for Electron, JVM, Flutter and even native apps (although of course then you still have to compile the native binaries on macOS yourself). That also works the other way around. You can ship to Windows from Linux or macOS.
No support for iOS though.
Cool that it exists, but I honestly don't even know which mac exclusive program I would want to install.
Cool that it exists, but I honestly don't even know which mac exclusive program I would want to install.
Photoshop / Adobe apps are mainly holding me back from switching to Linux completely.
Is there some really amazing Mac only software that would justify the effort ? I genuiniely can't see why I would want to run Mac software on my Arch box. I have used Linux since the 1990's and used the Mac back in 1988.
Glyphs is like the only game in town for font editing. I’m an Omnigraffle enjoyer too.
Finally, I can run Calculator.app and TextEdit on NixOS without buying a $3,000 aluminum cheese grater. Next up: emulating the spinning beach ball of death for authentic nostalgic immersion.
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Agh that's one of my biggest Linux regrets! Logic Pro is probably my favorite DAW, it feels so smooth to use, and that's likely connected to me using GarageBand extensively when I was a child. (I still remember "composing" multiple memorial songs in honor of Steve Jobs, as weird as that sounds!) The strategy Apple has figured out with GarageBand pre-installed (or at least very low friction to install) seems really re…
WINE doesn’t work well with DAWs. Most DAWs barely work on the platforms they support. I can’t see Linux as being a viable market since most Linux users except software to generally be free. Vs OSX which lets you enter a credit card number and buy stuff right from the built in store. If I recall Ubuntu might of once attempted paid applications on its built in store and it didn’t really work. Logic is probably made at…
Ableton Live has worked on Wine for close to 2 decades now. WineHQ has positive run reports dating back to 2006: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...