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so wine IS an emulator!
No you see it's only valve's specific patches in proton that turn wine from not an emulator to an emulator. This is why wine doesn't just accept proton's patches making it obsolete /s
You mean wie
YAML is not just yet another markdown language
And GNU is Unix!
Funnily enough, XNU (the macOS kernel) is actually UNIX.