Wine is an abbreviation of the words Wine Not an Emulator, and is available on Linux, MacOS, & amp; BSD-like POSIX compliant operation is a compatibility layer with the ability to run Windows applications on various systems. Instead of the built-in Windows virtual machine or emulator; Wine instantly translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls and avoids performance and memory glitches that are other disadvantages. The end result is that you can integrate Windows applications cleanly into the desktop.