Yes, from human language perspective, WINE can be "based on" Windows. I just wanted to clear this up in case a reader does not know or gets confused.

Ah and now I picked up what your question was actually asking. You ask if WINE11 tries to replicate Windows 11 specifically? If that is the question, then no, it does not. WINE11 is just the current version number that happens to match the current version number of Windows 11. WINE11 includes all Windows compatibility layers from previous versions. I think that is how it works and I hope that I picked your actual question correctly.

And yes, I just noticed that I sound robotic... Good lord, hope I'm not an Ai bot...

Because you brought up a non-proton related issue. It's highly unlikely this is proton related, this is an issue on how the steam virtual keyboard and Skyrim interact, and since the keyboard doesn't cause issues on any other game I think it's very likely the culprit is Skyrim, and if that's the case I want to know if the issue also happens on Windows.

Is it possible that the issue is within proton? Yes, but the problem you presented can be in multiple other places that proton can't touch. For example if the game crashes on windows too then proton is working correctly, and even if it doesn't it can still be something else besides proton, e.g. steam closing the keyboard in a different manner, Skyrim has had a famous bug where it crashes when you alt+tab away from it and come back on Windows for a long time, and opening a virtual keyboard on top of the game and going back is essentially alt+tabing, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this is the same bug in Skyrim showing up with a different face.

PS: out of curiosity I went and loaded my old prisoner save, and named the character which is how many people reported the bug and it just worked, so even if this used to be an issue, doesn't seem like it is anymore.

Pretty sure the latest update with a load of paid mod bs is what caused the bug lol

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Well it's a 2D game so the PS1's quirks of 3D rendering don't even apply.

I know what you mean, tho. That unique look PS1 has because it didn't use floating point integers for the vertices, so whenever the camera moves, the models look like they are shifting/wiggling as vertices jump from point to point in the most unsmooth manner possible?

That tilted look is due to the PS1 graphics hardware lacking perspective correction for projected textures. It gave its games a very distinctive look.