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Such as https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir Steps to compile it by hand (if you want a bit more of performance): Install homebrew /bin/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)\" Then, run this commands in the terminal to build and install Wine: brew upgrade brew trust Sikarugir-App/sikarugir brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/s", "context": "", "use_case": "Wine wrapper for Mac games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm"}, {"id": 757462544, "item_id": 47341409, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341409", "by": "fl0ki", "date": "2026-03-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try Sikarugir for PC gaming on macOS. It runs everything I've cared to try, with little or no tweaking.", "excerpt": "Try Sikarugir for PC gaming on macOS. 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Then run Steam and enable \"Steam Play/Proton compatibility\" or whatever it's called under its settings.", "context": "", "use_case": "run Windows apps on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"}, {"id": 785472384, "item_id": 49092024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092024", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Install this Wine build for Apple Silicon and then install anything you want", "excerpt": "Install this Wine build for Apple Silicon and then install anything you want, from Steam to GOG games which often will perfectly run in your machine: https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir Next, open Steam and enable the \"Steam Play/proton compatibility\" in the settings.", "context": "", "use_case": "Run Windows games on Apple Silicon", "switched_from": "", "story": "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"}, {"id": 784307156, "item_id": 49019197, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019197", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here you don't compile anything, just install them and that's it.", "excerpt": "Try a Wine port for Mac with Proton. Such as https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir Steps to compile it by hand (if you want a bit more of performance): Install homebrew /bin/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)\" Then, run this commands in the terminal to build and install Wine: brew upgrade brew trust Sikarugir-App/sikarugir brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/s", "context": "", "use_case": "Wine wrapper for Mac games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm"}, {"id": 757462544, "item_id": 47341409, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341409", "by": "fl0ki", "date": "2026-03-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try Sikarugir for PC gaming on macOS. It runs everything I've cared to try, with little or no tweaking.", "excerpt": "Try Sikarugir for PC gaming on macOS. It runs everything I've cared to try, with little or no tweaking. https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir", "context": "", "use_case": "Run Windows games on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO"}, {"id": 755856736, "item_id": 47241046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241046", "by": "whiterock", "date": "2026-03-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "oh, you mean there is a free alternative to crossover? :O", "context": "", "use_case": "Running Windows games on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All\u2011New M5 Pro and M5 Max"}, {"id": 755814944, "item_id": 47238434, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238434", "by": "latexr", "date": "2026-03-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then this software is on a clock. Apple has announced the end of Rosetta.", "excerpt": "> Apple Silicon systems also require Rosetta2 Then this software is on a clock. 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You can install all of Steam via winetricks and go from there, or launch DRM-free games directly. https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir", "context": "", "use_case": "Running Windows games on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All\u2011New M5 Pro and M5 Max"}, {"id": 746872432, "item_id": 46679527, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679527", "by": "treesknees", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For MacOS there is Sikarugir (formerly Wineskin.)", "excerpt": "For MacOS there is Sikarugir (formerly Wineskin.) It lets you bundle a win32 program with a wine runtime as a .app https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir https://github.com/vitor251093/wineskin", "context": "", "use_case": "Bundle Windows apps as macOS apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wine 11.0"}]}