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hi ik wine can translate userspace calls but i wonder if its possible to translate windows kernel level calls to linux ones (eg,kernel level anticheat,etc)

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Wine does translate kernel calls. Perhaps youre misunderstanding how that is then exposed?

Wine translates windows calls (including system level/kernel level) but exposes/implements in userspace on linux.

It doesn’t only do windows userspace to linux userspace

Its a design decision from the wine team to not build it as a kernel module and to instead implement as an application in userspace

Have a read here https://werat.dev/blog/how-wine-works-101/

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago (9 children)

then if it translates kernel calls why cant some kernel level anticheat run

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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