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  • What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

    01/06/2026 10:26:18 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 26 replies
    The Register ^ | 6 January 2026 | Liam Proven
    What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?Loss32 is the most gleefully deranged idea for how to put together a Linux OS that we think we have ever read about in three and a half decades… but it's not impossible. Not only could it be done, there could be real advantages to doing it this way.The idea comes from a blogger and developer known as Hikari no Yume ("Dream of Light" in Japanese) who made it public at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Germany at...