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    Run Windows apps on Mac

    Feb 08, 2021 4 minutes
    NICK PEERS

    There are several ways to run Windows-only apps on your Mac, but only one allows you to run them directly from your Mac desktop, and that’s Wine (winehq. org). Its command-line nature makes it fiddly, but thankfully more user-friendly variants exist.

    Of these, CrossOver for Mac 19.0 (bit.ly/cwwindonmac) is by far the best way to get Windows apps working on your Mac, but it’s not free: prices start from around US$41. Luckily, there are several free alternatives; they’re not quite as user-friendly, but of these Porting Kit (portingkit.com) still manages to take a lot of hassle out of the process.

    One fly in the ointment is that you’ll have to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) to

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