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  2. Wine (software) - Wikipedia

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    Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux.It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems products, Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Interface, [10] which was an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard but rejected due to ...

  3. Compatibility layer - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: Wine, which runs some Microsoft Windows binaries on Unix-like systems using a program loader and the Windows API implemented in DLLs; Windows's application compatibility layers to attempt to run poorly written applications or those written for earlier versions of the platform.

  4. CrossOver (software) - Wikipedia

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    CrossOver is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for Linux, macOS, and ChromeOS. This compatibility layer enables many Windows-based applications to run on Linux operating systems, macOS, or ChromeOS. CrossOver is developed by CodeWeavers and based on Wine, an open-source Windows compatibility layer.

  5. Proton (software) - Wikipedia

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    Proton is a compatibility layer for Windows games to run on Linux-based operating systems. [1] Proton is developed by Valve in cooperation with developers from CodeWeavers . [ 2 ] It is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games.

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  7. DXVK - Wikipedia

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    DXVK was first developed by Philip Rebohle to support Direct3D 11 games only [13] as a result of poor compatibility and low performance of Wine's Direct3D 11 to OpenGL translation layer. In 2018, the developer was sponsored by Valve to work on the project full-time in order to advance compatibility of the Linux version of Steam with Windows ...

  8. Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 build 16251: Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) WSL 2 (lightweight VM) Windows 10 build 18917: Windows 10 version 2004 (also backported to 1903 and 1909) WSL 2 GPU support: Windows 10 build 20150: Windows 11 (also Windows 10 21H2) WSL 2 GUI support (WSLg) (last version) Windows 10 build 21364: Windows 11

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