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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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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

99.9% of people using WINE/Proton aren’t going to have any idea what fsync is

Speaking, although I've heard the term thrown around a lot. Can I get a layman's overview?

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's pretty well described in the article of the post

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

You're right, it is.

You can try all you want, but you will never get me to read the articles before commenting.