Sikarugir
Shares rank 25 of 27 compatibility layers by recommenders
Free Mac tool that packages Wine builds into apps so Windows programs and games, including Steam, run on Apple Silicon with little tweaking.
Free Mac tool that packages Wine builds into apps so Windows programs and games, including Steam, run on Apple Silicon with little tweaking.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Install Windows apps without compiling
“Install this Wine build for Apple Silicon and then install anything you want”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9” “try installing this Wine build for Mac and then Steam for Windows under it”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9” “Here you don't compile anything, just install them and that's it.”
Comment from 23 Jul 2026 in “Nvidia released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm” Packages Windows apps as Mac apps
“It lets you bundle a win32 program with a wine runtime as a .app”
Comment from 19 Jan 2026 in “Wine 11.0” “package any windows app with your own environment”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine” Runs Windows games and apps well
“you can get a lot of PC gaming performance out of these machines using Sikarugir”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 in “Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max” “It runs everything I've cared to try, with little or no tweaking.”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO”
Other compatibility layers people recommend
The four most recommended other compatibility layers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proton by Valve | 451 | 189 | 70% | 13 | 2 yrs31 owners | Approved |
| Wine | 329 | 88 | 79% | 13 | 10 yrs11 owners | Approved |
| Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | 159 | 101 | 61% | 12 | 3 yrs9 owners | — |
| WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) | 115 | 55 | 68% | 12 | — | Approved |
| SikarugirThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“try installing this Wine build for Mac and then Steam for Windows under it”
“Install this Wine build for Apple Silicon and then install anything you want”
“Here you don't compile anything, just install them and that's it.”
“package any windows app with your own environment”
“It runs everything I've cared to try, with little or no tweaking.”
“Sikarugir is the successor to that project.”
“you can get a lot of PC gaming performance out of these machines using Sikarugir”
“It lets you bundle a win32 program with a wine runtime as a .app”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.