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Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OK, interesting. So my question is, what does THAT Wine stand for?