The best free Virtualization alternative to CrossOver is WinBoat, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CrossOver and five of them are free Virtualization Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Virtualization Tool alternatives to CrossOver are Winlator, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WinApps and MiceWine.
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It's the other way around. WSL is to run linux programs on windows not windows programs in Linux!