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I was thinking the same thing. I've had loads of issues over the years when I have an archived EXE that gets angry about a missing DLL.

Likewise, as the author states, there's nothing intrinsic to Linux that makes it have binary compatibility issues. If this is a problem you face, and you're considering making a distro that runs EXEs by default through an emulation layer, you are probably much better off just using Alpine or one of the many other musl-based distros.




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