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Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Others replied about WINE translation layer, but once binary is loaded in memory the kernel juat runs the code it does not care that it is linux or windows code, because to the systembit is chip instructions. It is why LinuxOS was fully able to run DOS way back when

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