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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'm aware. You seem to be equivocating on the word "emulate." Nobody called WINE an emulator. The design and behavior of NTSYNC is meant to mimic that of NT synchronization primitives.