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    1 year ago

    wine is a windows api implementation, it’s specifically NOT an emulator

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      1 year ago

      Read their own FAQ. It’s not an emulator in the classic sense of emulating the OS. It is however emulating the API of Windows. I quoted the pertinent line of the FAQ elsewhere and made my point clearer

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        1 year ago

        Not sure what the thumbs down is about. It’s right there in their own FAQ.

        In fact it ends by saying - “Wine is not just an emulator” is more accurate.

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          There is a storied history in computing to use tongue in cheek self referential acronyms to denote some humor and finality in distinguishing things that purposely fill a niche in the world of competing, often pricey, commercial software and other hackable reasons.

          So I bet you’re rubbing wrong those of us who remember that gnu is not unix, and more specifically wine is not an emulator. Because they really aren’t.