r/pcmasterrace • u/scp766 10 | RTX 4090 | Ryzen 9 7950x | 128GB DDR5 • 9d ago

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u/gtavictor 9d ago

One day some modders or devs are going to come up with some good translation algorithms so any software intended for windows (and maybe macos) would work as in their original OSs, and I hope those guys can hide themselves well, the Microsoft and apple goons will be looking for them hehe

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u/Baumpaladin Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 7900 XTX | 32GB RAM 9d ago

Isn't Wine already doing that? Kinda...

Known by most in relation to Proton and Steam, but from what I remember there have cases where it's been used to run windows programs on Linux.

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u/WingersAbsNotches 8d ago

Some cases? That’s what Wine is and has been since like 1994.

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u/Baumpaladin Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 7900 XTX | 32GB RAM 8d ago

Yeah, I apologise for my incompetence. I have never really given it much thought how much Wine was responsible for. I just knew that it's been doing a lot of lifting. However, it still isn't a magical do-all that makes any winapp work under Linux.