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Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by xcv123 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:30PM (#36593335)
> Why fix underlying problems when you can just put things in a bottle/container? Like that won’t use more resources.

This is WINE (not an emulator). Constrained by the design of Windows. Cannot fix that underlying problem. The resource cost is only tens of megabytes of storage and it provides clean isolation. It's not an entire copy of the OS. It's mostly just configuration.

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