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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by akdev1l on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:26PM (#47508653)
Maybe you are right about esync but anyway I would also gather a lot of people don’t have that either. At least personally I don’t bother with custom proton builds or whatever so if Valve didn’t enable that on their build then I don’t have it.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by foresto on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:39PM (#47508865)
> if Valve didn’t enable that on their build then I don’t have it.

The Proton build is Valve's build. It supports both fsync and esync, the latter of which does not require a kernel patch. If you're gaming on Linux with Steam, you're probably already using it.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/?tab=readme-ov-file#...

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by akdev1l on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:36PM (#47510497)
I thought you meant Proton-GE or such other patched builds of proton.
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