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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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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It's easy to laugh at that as a meme

No, you definitely have a point. An increasingly valid one, I might add.

And I do wonder what the "point" of Wine will be overall if we ever get to the point where the majority of users are on Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    And I do wonder what the “point” of Wine will be overall if we ever get to the point where the majority of users are on Linux.

    Nothing! If Windows parity isn't a concern, they don't have to develop anything. They can leave Wine how it is, and everything just works! In fact, keeping it as a stable API would be less of a headache for apps that target it.

    WINE becomes a "universally compatible linux API" that happens to be backwards-compatible with Windows executables.

    What's more, they could add whatever features and fixes they want, unbound by Microsoft. Game studios could even PR the project, I suppose.

    I'm not sure that would ever happen, though. Business users will be stuck with Windows forever, hence parity with Windows desktop apps will remain a goal.

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