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Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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To be honest, Microsoft's software is running against an API that uses a translation layer to talk to an older API. Multiple layers of this happen before you get to hardware, mostly for compatibility with legacy software that uses the older APIs.
Not to mention MS have rewritten their frontends for their apps several times and keep them each time.