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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by ms_menardi on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:34PM (#48142155)
if it's the lowest level available, then it's as close to "native" as we can get, so therefore it has to qualify, if we want to consider anything at all to be running "natively"
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by jurgenburgen on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:00PM (#48143643)
Isn’t that moving the goalposts? If an API isn’t exposed for native code then maybe we should just accept that we can’t write native code anymore instead of stretching the definition.
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