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Yes, you can run Windows apps on Linux - here are my top 5 ways


If you're looking to jump from Windows 10 to Linux, and you have specific apps you need to use that aren't available on the open-source platform, here's how to get around that.

In fact, you don't even have to touch the command line now, thanks to several good GUI front-ends (such as WineGUI and WineZGUI). Bottles creates isolated environments (each including all of the necessary dependencies), which makes it possible to run those Windows apps such that they cannot interfere with each other. Steam uses the Proton compatibility layer, which is based on Wine, DXVK, and VKD3D to translate DirectX calls to Vulkan, thus enabling Windows applications to communicate with the Linux operating system and hardware.

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