[aleph_minus_one]

> isn't what you are asking for just WINE

An operating system is a style of thinking about your work. WINE is a way to get Windows applications to run (by now run decently) under GNU/Linux. These Windows applications are nevertheless foreign bodies in the whole kind of thinking which GNU/Linux is built around.

[bombcar]

The joke is that the most stable Linux API for applications is ... WIN32 via WINE.

It's sad because it's true.