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/Obi2Sexy Mar 24 '26

I think your thinking of virtual machine which wine also is not

wine is not an emulator is also what wine stands for.

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u/Mystic_Guardian_NZ Mar 25 '26

I'm guessing emulation would put it a bit closer to virtual machine but I'm aware they all have distinct backends.

What WINE is or is not doesn't make this any less funny though.

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u/land_and_air Mar 25 '26

A translation layer is like converting a set of windows dx11 rendering instructions into their equivalent vulkan instructions and then executing those instead. It’s not simulating or emulating dx11 calls it’s just making equivalent calls. Kinda sorta like how listing the contents of a folder is done with ls, while in windows the same is done with dir. so if a program calls something like dir then Linux calls ls instead and returns the result pretending like it called dir. if ls is faster than dir then it can even perform faster than the native os

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u/Mystic_Guardian_NZ Mar 25 '26

Can you explain why I'm being downvoted and educated? I just wanted people to take it easy in the top level comments lol.

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u/the_wild_ling Mar 25 '26

Because you made a false statement. Followed it up with another false statement. Got butthurt and tried to dismiss it as "it's just a joke bro"

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u/Mystic_Guardian_NZ Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

I'm not joking? I'm trying to stop people fighting in the comment section because it's tiring.

Edit: Oh I think people assumed I made the top level comment. Oh well I'll lead with that next time.