Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

• InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, Wine Is Not an Emulator.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does the WINE in WINE Is Not an Emulator stand for

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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).

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It Not an Emulator all the way down.

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