Can we create Custom Operating system that supports any application? [closed]

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Can I create a custom operating system that supports both Windows and Linux applications?

How can I do that and what knowledge should I have?

Is this a good start?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This can kind of be done though using Linux and Wine however it is not perfect.

The issue is Windows is not open source and is VERY big so it is not very easy to perfectly emulate what that operating system is doing behind the scenes. This is especially hard with undocumented API calls many programs like to use on Windows.

I do not know of anything that lets you run Mac on Linix without using a VM.

It is very unlikely there will ever be "one OS to rule them all" but with tools like Wine and using virtualization with things like VMWare's Unity Mode to give the affect of another OS's program running on your system.