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		repelsteeltje on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine tea... I'm not a gamer so forgive me if I see connections that aren't there. Does this in any way impact game emulation? Isn't wine part of proton or stream attempts to run windows games on Linux? I suppose .net and clr play some time in win32, how is that usually emulated?

tapoxi on Aug 27, 2024 | [–]

Via wine-mono

Games themselves typically aren't .NET but ancillary components, like launchers or map editors, are.

Y_Y on Aug 27, 2024 | | [–]

Wine Is Not an Emulator

but it is indeed the basis for Proton

justsomehnguy on Aug 27, 2024 | [–]

You are probably mix up .NET and C# somewhat.

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