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by kevin_thibedeau 418 days ago
That's a byproduct of NT being designed from the start to have subsystems for alternate execution environments and was the path of least resistance. Conversely, it wouldn't be logical to make Wine tightly integrated into the Linux kernel when it had broader portability goals.
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Interestingly, they recently pushed ntsync into the Linux kernel specifically for use by wine.