Submitted 33 minutes ago by stat_rosa@lemy.nl to [deleted]
Is there a possibility and I’m not talking about breaking patents or anything like that, but I’m talking about a possibility technically, to have a Linux OS that can run Windows 11 apps natively?
No bottles or ports, just download an EXE file and run it.
Preinstall wine
Enable wine as the default app to open exes,.
then, when you double click on an exe you downloaded in your file explorer, it will launch and open.
Many of the user friendly Linux distros do this.
Yes, this is interesting. Oh wow love your comment on programming.dev!
If you would count running a python program as “running natively” if you run the python script through your python interpreter, then I would argue that running an exe file through wine also counts as “running natively”.
Very true.
Running Windows apps “natively” is impossible, by definition.
That said, I could imagine a kernel module that ran everything Windows in a microContainer like Kata. More likely would be to have Windows executables intercepted and run under Wine.
It’s an interesting question.
So at the moment Wine seems to be the best possibility to come near to the experience of Windows.
No, such an OS would necessarily not be Linux.
You can have a different OS that can run windows natively–like React OS, but it’s very much not Linux.
Did not know this existed, thank you. This is a very interesting OS, but indeed it is not Linux.
Yeah something like Wine, but running natively in the Linux OS.
I mean, if you have wine installed, exes execute. What exactly are you missing?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 44 seconds ago
Maybe you are looking for qemu, or the more luxurious Proxmox VE.
It is…
…and it can…
…run Windows 11 first and then run Windows 11 apps natively