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OK, my question is - is wine just a windows emulator
No, Wine Is Not an Emulator.
What does the WINE in WINE Is Not an Emulator stand for
It's recursive for Wine Is Not An Emulator. The program is a translation layer - including translating Windows specific function calls into something Linux can understand (IE: DirectX to Vulcan).
This is distinct from emulation - primarily because it allows programs to utilize native functions of the machine and has much less performance overhead compared to true windows emulation (which is just a VM with extra steps).
OK, interesting. So my question is, what does THAT Wine stand for?
Gosh
It Not an Emulator all the way down.