Valve also made a tool to help windows applications (mostly games) run natively on Linux with some success - it's not perfect and it depends on the kind of application, but more things that can be done on linux without a VM is a huge deal for an average user.
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Valve also made a tool to help windows applications (mostly games) run natively on Linux with some success - it's not perfect and it depends on the kind of application, but more things that can be done on linux without a VM is a huge deal for an average user.