• TheYang@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    the ton of games doesn’t run natively, they run well, but through a translation layer (wine/proton)

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      1 year ago

      To be exact it’s not a translation layer, but a reimplementation of the Windows APIs and ABIs on Linux.

      That’s why there is no performance cost.