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Wine acronym (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”

It's not an emulator though. That's literally what the name is explaining!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It does emulate the windows environment