" Wine (recursive backronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as "Winelib", against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Wine provides its compatibility layer for Windows runtime system (also called runtime environment) which translates Windows system calls into POSIX-compliant system calls, recreating the directory structure of Windows, and providing alternative implementations of Windows system libraries, system services through wineserver and various other components (such as Internet Explorer, the Windows Registry Editor, and msiexec). Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse-engineering, to avoid copyright issues. "

~ https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

https://DuckDuckGo.com/?q=Wine+on+Linux

Full disclosure: I'm still on Win 7 x2 but intend to migrate to Mint in my next bigger better box when I can afford the change and already have it on another secondary/third box.

I love that this Ameliorated version exists (assuming it's good and legit) as having alternatives is always good. But we need to break free from the corporatocracy including reliance on evil corporations like Microsoft and Google.

We need more DECENTRALIZATION and TRANSPARENCY with OPEN SOURCE alternatives and solutions!

We also need more communications options like B.A.T.M.A.N. and for everyone to have their own home server with their own IPFS or similar archive systems (ie. FreeNAS) to decentralize away from the corporatocracy's clouds. If everyone can have a fridge and a water heater, one more appliance won't hurt - and down the road may be a wise investment (ie. archive rewards in Filecoin).