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Portable apps on ARM processors

I am looking for a strategy to run portable apps on all my workstations which run Linux. That includes ARM processors, such as the Raspberry Pi Version 2, an ARM V7 processor. That appears to mean running QEMU to emulate an Intel processor and then Wine on top of that to emulate Windows. Does anybody have any experience with that? I would be pleased to buy a Carbide drive if it came configured to run on both Intel and ARM processors and both Windows and Linux operations systems.

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You'll have to run an emulator as Windows apps are all x86-based. No Windows apps are built for ARM. And the emulation layer coupled with the less powerful ARM processors means it will run very slow. Possibly unusably slow.

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