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Wine and bottles by extension aren't virtual machines, its a compatibility layer that translates windows system calls into Linux ones. Programs run in wine can interact with files on your system if you run them outside of a prefix. You can think of a prefix as an individual isolated machine that Windows software run in it can't see out of kind of like a VM but what the software is doing behind it is completely different. It's almost certainly not going to happen unless you're being directly attacked, but it is theoretically easier for malware to escape a prefix than a VM.
The main benefit of prefixes is having multiple different ones that can be tweaked for better compatibility with the game or whatever you're trying to run. Bottles is just an easy way to manage prefixes.
It's easy to remember that Wine is just an API compatibility layer - Just gotta know its actual name:
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