Updated Wine version improves Windows 10 Linux compatibility

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Published onJanuary 23, 2020

published onJanuary 23, 2020

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Fans of bothWindows 10andLinuxcan now rejoice, asWine has been updated with over 7400 changes.

For those of you that aren’t aware, Wine is a software thatMicrosofthas partially credited with makingWindows 10 Subsystem for Linuxpossible.

It acts as a compatibility layer, designed for OSes based on Unix. In essence, it enables Linux and macOS systems to run Windows applications.

According toWine:

PE binaries are copied into the Wine prefix instead of the fake DLL files

Thanks to this change, theinstallationvia Wine is different as follows:

(The prefix) looks more like a real Windows installation, at the cost of some extra disk space.

As you may already know back from theWindows XP era,Microsoftused its anti-piracy Windows Genuine Advantage program to block updates to Wine users on Linux systems.

However, times changed to the point whereMicrosoftactually ended up supporting the efforts of Wine developers.

The latest Wine update, also known as Update 5.0, is the result of this change in mentality. Not only will it allow Windows apps to run onLinux, but you will be able to do the opposite as well.

Now that Wine is getting fullMicrosoftsupport, what do you expect from the two OSes in the near future?

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