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not sure I want my parents to be able to double click Windows binaries and have them execute with their privs

My parents can't do that. They're on macOS.

Wine bottler works well for that.

Does wine and wine bottler work on the new Apple silicon macs? Maybe for the old intel machines it does but not quite sure for the new macs though.

Yeah, it does! You probably need Rosetta 2 installed first though.