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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ohhh shit, stop, I can only get so hard......

How awesome would it be for wine to outperform windows :)

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it already did that in some circumstances.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

In specific it can, especially in disk access. In general, games are notably, but not earthshatteringly, slower.