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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not sure this metaphor can be stretched enough to shoehorn wine into it.

Wine is just an application and it'll work in any desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, etc), and it allows you to run Windows applications. Think of it as an application that lets your system pretend it's actually Windows

(and for the pedantic neckbeards: yes I know this sounds like I'm calling wine an emulator, which it isn't)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Okay so i do know what dual booting is. So wine is sorta like ezpz dual booting without having to restart my pc each time?

    Ty for your patience

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's a "compatibility layer".
    Wine tricks Windows programs into thinking they're running in Windows.
    It sets up a fake C: drive and intercepts requests for built-in Windows features with Linux equivalents that are wearing Groucho Marx glasses and T-shirts that say NORMAL WINDOWS FEATURE.

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