Wine 11 Enables Institutional Linux Shifts

Wine 11’s completion of WoW64, NTSYNC kernel acceleration, unified binary and improved Wayland/Vulkan support make running legacy Windows desktop and gaming workloads on Linux far more practical. That lowers a key technical barrier for public institutions and enterprises considering migrations off proprietary Windows stacks. — If these improvements accelerate adoption, they change debates about software sovereignty, procurement (which OS vendors states and agencies choose), and where tech and cultural power is concentrated.