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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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This is super exciting. I never got mine working right, I gave up and installed 86Box. It was easier to do a complete installation of Windows 98 than get some of my old games running in Wine.