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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by colejohnson66 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:22AM (#47517028)
Wine doesn't emulate the NT kernel; Just the NT and Win32 userspace APIs. For example, Wine provides a `kernel32.dll` that maps API calls into the appropriate Linux ones. Anything kernel level is operating "below" Wine.
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