Proton 11 is based on Wine 11… Just saying.
And wine 11 is based on win11?(is it tho?)
Not really, because WINE is a new implementation based on reverse engineering. Proton is based directly on WINE, as it is a fork and uses the code directly and modifies and adds stuff. Here is my try to visualize the difference:
- Imagine you copy a text file, make changes to it and save it as a new file. Its based on the original text file. That is what Proton does with WINE.
- WINE itself does not do that with Windows. Instead imagine you open a web browser, look at the website how it looks in your browser and try to guess what the HTML of the original source code might look like, based on how it appears on the browser. Then you test your code again and again, look if it behaves similar to the original output. So kinda this is what WINE does.
Oh man sorry I already know wine is reverse engineered stuff, but it still can be “based on” windows in a sense that you looked at windows to remake wine.
My question was if that reference was win11 or older windows versions
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…
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