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minus-squareag10n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoProton and wine are Linux native. Did they magically port Proton or is there an additional layer of abstraction here? Indeed nothing groundbreaking, and needs a Linux layer to run
minus-squareklankin@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWine translates windows syscalls to POSIX, macos is Unix based. Wine doesnt need linux to run, and actually has official macos binaries on its gitlab.
minus-squareag10n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI did not know this, that its actually POSIX translation
Proton and wine are Linux native. Did they magically port Proton or is there an additional layer of abstraction here?
Indeed nothing groundbreaking, and needs a Linux layer to run
Wine translates windows syscalls to POSIX, macos is Unix based.
Wine doesnt need linux to run, and actually has official macos binaries on its gitlab.
I did not know this, that its actually POSIX translation