Is there a possibility and I'm not talking about breaking patents or anything like that, but I'm talking about a possibility technically, to have a Linux OS that can run Windows 11 apps natively?

No bottles or ports, just download an EXE file and run it.

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They also did the opposite, they have their own "thing" to run Windows software on Linux. It's a quite thin "kernel-like" layer offering most of the important Windows kernel calls on Linux. This is what they used to port their DB2 Sql Server database to Linux. Sql Server on Linux uses a few calls directly on the Linux kernel for performance (File IO for the DB), but other stuff lives in a Windows emulator (Like DLLs it loads).

Read a white paper about it a few years ago.

If they wanted, they could easily port all their applications to Linux, but (understandibly) they don't want to for end user stuff.

Edit: It was SQL Server of course, DB2 is IBM: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-an-old-drawbridge-helped-microsoft-bring-sql-server-to-linux/

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