How to run macOS on Linux (without too much hassle)
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I had been waiting for a really long time for that video by the Linux Experiment (really good Linux youtuber) which is also available there: https://tilvids.com/w/bLPmGvqHd69ANdPdhRZXWV .

Sadly, as I’m on Fedora, there are a few differences from Ubuntu (DNF instead of APT) and I can’t use the PPA from the github links ( https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui/releases?page=1 , https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu?tab=readme-ov-file ).

I’m sure it’s easy once you get to the beginning of the video but since I can’t install quickgui and I’m stuck.

It would be really nice if I could get some help as I’m sure it’s fairly easy for someone more knowleadgable than me.

I should just add that I don’t even really know what DNF, APT and PPA are. I just know it’s related to my problem.

Edit: Basically I’m stuck at the part where you have to use the terminal to install quickgui with these lines

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannick-mauray/quickgui sudo apt update sudo apt install quickgui

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    10 months ago

    This video was all cool until he said “using spicy remote desktop protocol”. That’s when I knew it was all the typical bs guide that results in a slow system not usable for anything remotely close to real time. Also the guy is running without any GPU acceleration making things very bad.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t watched that video, but I just followed the instructions on OSX-KVM and it was a breeze, took a few hours to install though.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      I’ve tried it a while ago and I couldn’t get to the end of the installation process as it was saying « internet connection required » (when clearly I had one outside of the VM)

  • qaz@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’m currently installing MacOS using this guide to be able to use XCode for school and it seems to be working so far (with monterey). It’s a bit sluggish but it’s either this or buying/renting a macbook.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        quickemu actually has installation instructions for Fedora. I’m using OpenSUSE, which unlike Fedora doesn’t have installation instructions at all, that’s why I ended up using Distrobox. I looked at my command history and I think this is what I did.

        1. distrobox create --image ubuntu macos-vm-box
        2. distrobox enter macos-vm-box
        3. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
        4. sudo apt install software-properties-common
        5. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannick-mauray/quickgui
        6. sudo apt update
        7. sudo apt install quickgui
        8. Use quickgui

        It should also work on Fedora, but I may have missed some commands.

  • blotz@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    You are running fedora which is using the dnf package manager. The commands you mentioned (apt/ppa) are part of the apt (aptitude) package manager which is comes with Ubuntu.

    Apt is the command to install/manage packages on Ubuntu (and other distros that use apt). A ppa is a special way to tell apt where it can download packages from. It lets you a install 3rd party packages not provided by your distros default selection. It is specific to apt and will not work for dnf.

    This isn’t the end of the world and you can still install the package. Because these packages are open source, you can build the package from source. The instructions for which can be found on the github readme. Hopefully this cleared some things up!

    [Edit] done some poking around, and I managed to get it running on fedora. I had weird issues building it from scratch, so I did it in a janky way by downloading and extracting the deb (it had precompiled bin inside). Looks to be working tho I couldn’t test it because no qemu

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Well I guess that’s too complicated for me but thanks for the answer.

      I’ll probably just reinstall a windows VM, maybe even Windows XP instead of 10 for the nostalgia trip 😅

  • Bruno Finger@lemm.ee
    11·
    10 months ago

    Yeah quickemu is great. I am using it to run a Windows 11 machine to run a .NET 4 backend with all routing and proxying setup perfectly so it all seamlessly points to localhost from Fedora. I also have a Mac OS VM to test all the Safari bs, but as mentioned the lack of GPU acceleration on osx is annoying.

  • ___@lemm.ee
    12·
    10 months ago

    Linux fragmenting Ike this between distros is a major problem for the future.