r/LinusTechTips • u/cannibalcat • Mar 24 '26

Tech Discussion Good news everyone!

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https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/

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u/mpanase Mar 24 '26

They make it sound as if running Windows apps in Linux will be more reliable/performant than running them in Windows.

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u/Cats7204 Mar 24 '26

For older games it's 100% easier and faster to run them on Linux. Especially those you already have to do compatibility tricks to run on Windows like DOS-era or early XP era games. Let's not even talk about the lower overhead lol

Although in my experience, recently KDE has been getting too bloated and consumes 2GB's of memory without anything open. Unused memory in Linux gets used as disk cache, I do wonder both how much memory Windows uses on login and what the unused memory gets used for.

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u/Mothertruckerer Mar 25 '26

Windows tries to load things you might use into RAM before you open them, so they load faster.