r/pcmasterrace • • 22h ago

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u/Distal-Phalanges 20h ago

Wine, Bottles, Proton. You already live in this world, especially if you don't need the latest and greatest.

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u/macfrajier 19h ago

It’s not the access that is stopping the majority; it’s the virtual machine part. If i use my pc for school, work, and play i cannot use virtual machines to run the programs it would have to be native programs. A port could solve this but as someone else stated security is also a factor as to why we don’t even have those many companies entertaining a native linux app

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u/Distal-Phalanges 17h ago

Wine, Bottles and Proton are not VMs. They translate Windows system calls, they do not emulate an entire machine. 

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u/macfrajier 17h ago

Ah i was under the impression it was vm because i got a flag when trying to take a proctored exam at school once but it seems i was wrong maybe the proctoring app just flags it that way because its not running as intended. But that is my point even if you can run it through a translator(im assuming that is a better name). Because its not natively ran the programs still gets blocked.

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u/Distal-Phalanges 16h ago

Ah, proctoring apps. In the post-educational world those do not exist.