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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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I think you still need to worry about multilib configs if the game you're trying to play is Linux native. But I guess those games usually have a Windows version anyways and you could just use Wine/Proton for that.