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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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If devs never target Linux they won’t build with Linux in mind.

Won't they?

I posit this:

  • Windows gaming will die. Slowly.

  • Devs will target Proton more and more explicitly.

  • ...Until development is basically exclusively targing Wine/Proton, on Linux.

It's easy to laugh at that as a meme, but does Windows seem sustainable now? Is there any sane "single target" for game devs other than Proton? Hence I think that's legitimately what will happen.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.