80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux

Re:80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:41AM (#29637259)

> Is emulation killing the hardware?

Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;)

...well, okay, so that depends on your definition of “emulator”, but compared to a more traditional emulator like Dolphin or even Rosetta, there’s very little performance impact from Wine in most cases.

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Re:80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux by fathyb on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:03PM (#29642059)

Rosetta is actually more efficient than Wine when it comes to graphics, which is the biggest bottleneck for playing games on Wine.

Metal calls are pretty much kept as-is, whereas Wine has to translate DirectX operations to OpenGL or Vulkan, like VirtualBox or Parallels.

But it's true that when it comes to raw CPU power, Wine very likely provides the best performance.

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Re:80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:07PM (#29643214)

Well, I feel like running a Vulkin-native game in Wine would be a better comparison here, but I could see the counterargument.

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Re:80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux by taubek on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:12AM (#29646065)

Maybe I should then try to put Ubuntu on my laptop and give Steam a spin on it. :)

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