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WinBoat, WinApps, and Windows Mislabeled as "Linux"
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Linux Links ☛ WinBoat – backdoored Windows for penguins
WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run backdoored Windows apps on GNU/Linux using a containerized approach.
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HowTo Geek ☛ This open-source app lets you run any Windows app on Linux
Linux is more user-friendly than ever, but there are still a large number of irreplaceable Windows apps that don't run on Linux at all. With one open-source program, I solved that problem for 90% of the Windows app I need on a regular basis. This is how.
How can you run Windows apps on Linux?
Most Windows programs don't run on Linux, and those that do usually have special versions that are compiled specifically for Linux. Unfortunately, Proton—Steam's amazing compatibility layer—doesn't work with everything either. Unless it is a game, you're probably out of luck.
That is where WinApps comes in. WinApps brings together an efficient virtual machine, remote desktop protocol (RDP), and a mod for the Linux user interface. Together, they allow you to run specific applications on a Windows virtual machine, then integrates them so they look like a native application on Linux.
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HowTo Geek ☛ My favorite way to run Linux apps on Windows without a virtual machine [Ed: They're confusing people by conflating Windows with "Linux"]