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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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