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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Basically, they like to drink wine.

No. I'm kidding. WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator, and it allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux machine. It's far from perfect, but it can be a lifesaver when switching from Windows to Linux. What user melpomenesclevage is trying to say, is that you can use WINE to significantly blunt the blow / daily usability learning curve when switching, to keep some of your familiar applications as is.

Edit: here's their site https://www.winehq.org/ the also explain it much better than I.

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[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

How you explained it helped a lot. So it basically is a windows emulator but isn't for legal reasons? Lol

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Haha no, it's technically not an emulator. Emulation means having a whole fake CPU that runs your software. Wine doesn't do that, instead it makes the windows exe run in Linux and provides an API so the calls your windows program makes run natively.

Tldr emulation is slow, wine makes your programs run natively.

I switched to Linux for gaming a year ago and I have been blown away by how good it is.

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago*

Not really an emulator, though the end result is similar. WINE translates the instructions sent between the OS and software to languages each other understands. It's like a Babel Fish for Windows programs and the Linux OS.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

You can run a lot of windows apps on Linux even if they don't say they're compatible, with a tool called WINE

Also, it matters less if youre a little tipsy.