Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
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Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#2awesome, finally wine is getting proper ntsync support... and i reckon wow64 will let me run so many old games...
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#3it seems if you want the same on macOS, this is the place to contribute:
https://github.com/Alien4042x/Wine-NTsync-Userspace-macOS-ba...
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#4Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#5Reading these posts always make me feel like an imposter. People are dealing with such low level things, while i'm outta here building simple CRUDs.
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#6Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
This is the very definition of "a good problem to have."
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#7Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
OS/2 part deux
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#8Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
Wine's APIs are more stable than Linux's APIs, so it seems more plausible to me that Wine will become the first class target itself.
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#9Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
A solution to itself
Re: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
#10Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.
Wine's APIs are more stable than Linux's APIs, so it seems more plausible to me that Wine will become the first class target itself.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wine eventually becomes more stable than Windows.