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It's already been done, though. Wine has been around for 30 years and has excellent compatibility at this point.

5341 of the 16491 applications listed in the Wine AppDB have a compatibility rating of "garbage". This is not excellent compatibility.

Relative to (64-bit) windows 11, it might be.

How many of those entries have been tested with recent versions of wine or proton? Seems a poor metric.

Better to consider is the Proton verified count, which has been rocketing upwards.

https://www.protondb.com/

I would hazard a guess that most of those apps are garbage on Windows, too.

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