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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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I live in Linux in work, it's just come the evening I've genuinely been in the mindset of "launch game, play game"
The benefits of speed from Linux are finally pulling me over