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Isn't the Linux gaming stuff really an emulator for Windows games? So it'd be like, windows emulation inside Linux virtualization inside macos?
by throwaway127482 1y ago
Isn't the Linux gaming stuff really an emulator for Windows games? So it'd be like, windows emulation inside Linux virtualization inside macos?
- lxgr 1y agoAs far as I understand, it's a modified/extended version of Wine, which, as the name suggests, is not an emulator (but rather a userspace reimplementation of the Windows API, including a layer that translates DirectX to OpenGL/Vulkan). The reverse, i.e. running Linux binaries on Windows or macOS, is not easily possible without virtualization, since Linux uses direct syscalls instead of always going through a dynamically linked static library that can take care of compatibility in the way that Wine does. (At the very least, it requires kernel support, like WSL1; Wine is all userspace.)