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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by yellowapple on Monday August 24, 2015 @08:22PM (#10113653)
It is? I've personally seen better performance with Wine + Linux than with Windows.

Now, this isn't to say that Wine is totally up to par with Windows in terms of compatibility, but performance hasn't been a significant issue for quite some time.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by ionised on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:48AM (#10115205)
I searched for a few games I'm playing now and have played recently and out of 10 there were 4 that had no entry on the WINE database.

This might be enough of a barrier to stop me using it right now.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by yellowapple on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @03:04PM (#10118781)
That happens, particularly on really new (or really obscure) software. Really, though, that ought to be an encouragement; sure, you're left in the dark, but it means that those games could use some test coverage. Your contributions to the AppDB could help quite a few others.
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