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Alien1Being • today at 2:31 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.

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tensor • today at 2:38 AM

There are lots of amazing Mac only apps, but I'm not sure simply running them on Linux would be worth it. Without the cohesiveness of the UI as a whole you'd be losing a lot.

wwweston • today at 2:55 AM

For me it’s mostly media apps - Fireworks CS 6, Reason 10, maybe some version of Garage Band. There’s alternatives but these apps hit a sweet spot that I could camp out on for decades if the tech treadmill didn’t like to make software an exercise in seeing shifting shapes in the clouds.