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I’ve already noticed having an easier time running old Windows games under Wine than on Windows natively— a handful of years ago, I found the disc for Tomb Raider Gold, but it was having me install a bunch of “missing Windows features”, and I never did get it to run. Tried recently on my 2013-era laptop and, beyond needing to invoke Wine on the executable, it played right away!