4
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
4 points (100.0% liked)
macOS
1201 readers
11 users here now
The home for all things macOS on LW.
Rules:
- No NSFW Content.
- No hate speech or personal attacks.
- No Ads / Spamming.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Sorry, I tried using MacPorts in a VM and installing Nautilus with
sudo port install Nautilus
as suggested on the MacPorts website, but this was the final result after like 20 minutes of "installing" data and the like to no avail.(This was tested on a macOS Sequoia VM with an M4 MBA host running macOS Tahoe Beta 4. It is possible this may work better on an x86 Mac or older macOS version, but I wouldn't get too caught up in this.)
There is ONE other way to run Nautilus on macOS that I've used a bit, but it's kind of cheating and not that great: Containers. Specifically, Docker and similar programs should allow this (which I did test once), but more recently Apple introduced their own Containerization framework which I also tested and was able to get up and running. The issue is that Xquartz, which you'd have to use to get any GUI Linux applications on macOS, isn't very good in and of itself. No Retina support is the biggest dealbreaker for me, but this is also technically just running a micro Linux VM with access to your macOS files a bit like Windows Subsystem for Linux.