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If there is a prompt, just hit Open to proceed.

Once done, head to your download folder and two-finger click the EXE you want to install, select Open With, and select PlayOnMac.

Open the DMG file and then click and drag the PlayOnMac log into the Applications folder to properly install the DMG.

Download the latest PlayOnMac version from its official website.You have to do four things before you can continue.Please make sure you’ve run all of the above commands before proceeding. Newer versions of PlayOnMac shouldn’t need XQuartz, but it doesn’t hurt to install it.

The last command installs XQuartz onto your system.The two above commands will install the latest version of Wine onto your Mac.

brew install –cask –no-quarantine wine-stable.

Pro tip - If the Homebrew commands below don’t work due to a “command not found” issue, type export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH and hit enter.

Installation should only take a few minutes. This command installs Homebrew, a necessary step for PlayOnMac.

Enter your password and hit enter if prompted.

This turns off software gatekeeping and prevents problems from arising later.

Enter your password and hit enter again.

Obviously, hit enter after typing each command.

Open the Terminal and type in the following commands. Microsoft's reasoning behind this was pretty much "A lot of the same programs will be using the same lower level stuff so we might as well just link to it instead of copying it multiple times." I'm not really a programmer so maybe they didn't really have a choice due to how Windows is designed, but I think we can all agree it's not a very effective design.You’ll need to install a few things before you can use PlayOnMac. Windows apps (programs) are very dependent on multiple things throughout the Windows operating system, such as shared DLLs, registry settings, etc. You can right click on an app and select "Show package contents" and see what all is actually contained in a Mac application. You can take a Mac app and copy it to another system and it will run. They might have folders that they write to your user or system library that they depend on to store preferences, but they do not depend on these folders to successfully launch (unless there's some sort of licensing implemented). Other than that, how they work are very different. The only remote similarity is that they both launch applications.