• blave@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed. this may be how WINE came about?

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      6 hours ago

      Was it cygwin, or something? I vaguely recall running an X server on Windows so I could display remote Linux gui apps locally.

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        6 hours ago

        You’re thinking of remote X server, but there was also something called Cygwin that allowed you to run certain Linux apps within a virtualized environment. It was basically just an X window that opened up in windows inside of which you could run Linux apps.