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[-] TheYang@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 6 points 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.

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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