Is there a possibility and I’m not talking about breaking patents or anything like that, but I’m talking about a possibility technically, to have a Linux OS that can run Windows 11 apps natively?
No bottles or ports, just download an EXE file and run it.
They also did the opposite, they have their own “thing” to run Windows software on Linux. It’s a quite thin “kernel-like” layer offering most of the important Windows kernel calls on Linux. This is what they used to port their
DB2Sql Server database to Linux. Sql Server on Linux uses a few calls directly on the Linux kernel for performance (File IO for the DB), but other stuff lives in a Windows emulator (Like DLLs it loads).Read a white paper about it a few years ago.
If they wanted, they could easily port all their applications to Linux, but (understandibly) they don’t want to for end user stuff.
Edit: It was SQL Server of course, DB2 is IBM: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-an-old-drawbridge-helped-microsoft-bring-sql-server-to-linux/
I had not heard of that. Fascinating! Thanks!
I edited the post you replied to and added a link to an article