{"id":1033,"date":"2026-09-28T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:19:46","slug":"use-the-same-tech-that-powers-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Use the Same Tech That Powers Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wine powers Steam&#8217;s efforts to run Windows games on Linux (ex: <strong>Steam Deck<\/strong>).<br><br>Wine also powers Apple&#8217;s efforts to run Windows games on macOS (ex: <strong>Game Porting Toolkit<\/strong>).<br><br>Leverage the same technology with Install<strong>Aware 2026<\/strong>, effortlessly running your <strong>Windows software on Linux\/macOS<\/strong>:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/application-porting-toolkit.pdf\">www.installaware.com\/application-porting-toolkit.pdf<\/a><br><br>Wine is a binary application compatibility layer that works on both Linux and macOS, but it <strong>doesn&#8217;t handle installations<\/strong> very well.<br><br>Enter Install<strong>Aware 2026<\/strong>:<br><br>1. <strong>Install Wine like any other application runtime<\/strong> (ex: .NET) on Linux and macOS.<br><br>2. Install <strong>your own application (or any other third party application<\/strong>, for that matter), on Linux and macOS.<br><br>Install<strong>Aware 2026<\/strong> converts any existing Windows Installer to <strong>a native-code, Linux and macOS installation<\/strong>:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/steam.asp\">www.installaware.com\/steam.asp<\/a><br><br>Take <strong><u>77% off until Friday, October 2nd, 2026<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; and see how easy it is to get apps &#8211; yours or third party &#8211; running on brand new platforms!<br><br><em>You&#8217;re very welcome!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine powers Steam&#8217;s efforts to run Windows games on Linux (ex: Steam Deck). Wine also powers Apple&#8217;s efforts to run Windows games on macOS (ex: Game Porting Toolkit). Leverage the same technology with InstallAware 2026, effortlessly running your Windows software on Linux\/macOS: www.installaware.com\/application-porting-toolkit.pdf Wine is a binary application compatibility layer that works on both Linux &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use the Same Tech That Powers Steam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}