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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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[–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

From the article:

Futex2, often referred to interchangeably with fsync, did make it to Linux kernel 5.16 as futex_waitv, but the original implementation of fsync isn't that. Fsync used futex_wait_multiple, and Futex2 used futex_waitv. Applications such as Lutris still refer to it as Fsync, though. It's still kind of fsync, but it's not the original fsync.

So since Jan 2022, it’s been in the stable Linux kernel. For Debian and its derivatives, it would be included beginning with Bookworm.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So basically, both esync and fsync are enabled by default for almost everybody.

[–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

Assuming that most non-technical users (who wouldn’t research and enable it) are probably using Wine/Proton through Steam: yeah.